Religious Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

index

Pāśupatas 33–34, 131–132
Patañjali 136
Pātimokkha 145
patriarchy 93, 257
Paul, apostle: on church 46;
damascus road experience 84;
on end time 124; on faith 86;
letters 221; on love 129; on
sexuality 232; on suffering 243
Pelagianism 109
Pentateuch 221
People of Hell 251
People of Paradise 251
perception 40, 41, 171–172
performance 172–173, 189, 208,
209, 223–224; theatrical
246–247
performative utterance 239–240
Peter Abelard 248
Peyote cult 73, 141
phenomenology 4, 7–9, 55
philia 129
philosophy: perennial 154
phylacteries 188
pilgrimage 30, 37, 128, 173–175
pipe bundle 214
plainchant 149–150
Plains Indians 44
planes of existence 57
Plato 118, 133, 157, 237
play 176–178
pluralism 179, 185
poetic imagination 245
politics 179–180
pollution 38, 180–182, 197
Polycarp, St. 217–218
polytheism 26, 97, 99, 148,
182–183
polythetic definition of religion 12
Pope: control over sainthood 218
possession 183–184
post-millenarianism 139–140
postmodern theology 250
postmodernism 9–11, 121, 167,
184–186, 230; definition of
religion 12

potlatch 96

power 178, 186–188, 213; of

community 52; and gifts 96; and

knowledge 187; over death 28

Prāsangika 200

praveśa 184

prayer 188–190; Christian 189–190;

Muslim 40, 189

prema 130–131

pre-millenarianism 139–140

prevenient grace 102

priest 190–191, 263

primitive mentality 159

process theology 250

profane: sacred vs. 5, 8, 214–215

Prometheus 90

Promised Land 221

prophet 192–193, 218

prophetic movements 140–141

Protestantism 78, 225

Proudfoot, Wayne 84

Pseudo-dionysius 152

psychology 6–7, 193–194

Ptah 45, 102, 183

Pueblo 163, 197, 241

pūjā 263

Purānas 222

Pure Land Buddhism 83, 87–88, 108

Pure Lands 107

purgatory 195–196

purification 38, 56, 110, 174, 181,

195–197

Puritans 65

purity 181, 182

Puta Santa 97

qi 74

qiyās 126

Quakers 169

Qur’an: as law 126; on sexuality

232; on women 258, 259;

as word of God 204, 222;

worldview 261

Ra 45

Rabbinic Judaism 115