The Routledge Dictionary of Religious and Spiritual QuotationsHow did the universe come to exist? What is the nature of its creator? Is there a purpose to human existence? What is it to live a good life? |
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... Mind 191 106. Questions and Speculation 193 107. Science 195 108. Suffering 197 109. Freewill 199 110. Doubt 201 111. Proofs of God 202 XIV. Virtue and the Good 112. Lists of Virtues 205 113. The Right 207 114. Duty 208 115. Truth and ...
... Mind and the Bounteous Spirit. Denkart, 117 (9th century) 5 Of all Religions this is the best Religion, To utter the Holy name with adoration, and to do good deeds. Hymns of Guru Arjan Dev, Astapada, 3 (16th century) 6 Nor is religion ...
... minds may be conceived to have made the great transition from magic to religion. J.G.Frazer, The Golden Bough (1890) 3 In a general way a society has all that is necessary to arouse the sensation of the divine in minds, merely by the ...
... mind. Mircea Eliade, Australian Religions (1973) 12 Notwithstanding their radical differences, these ideologies have two things in common: 1. their obsession with the origin and the beginnings of religions; 2. their taking for granted ...
... mind is entirely possessed by the belief in a supernatural power or influence, called almost universally mana. This is what works to effect everything which is beyond the ordinary power of men, outside the common processes of nature; it ...
Contents
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II THE SUPERNATURAL | 37 |
III THE NATURE OF GOD | 51 |
IV THE UNIVERSE | 76 |
V HUMANITY | 89 |
VI THE SACRED | 97 |
VII SACRED PERSONS | 105 |
XI SPIRITUAL EXERCISES | 151 |
XII RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY | 164 |
XIII RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY | 189 |
XIV VIRTUE AND THE GOOD | 205 |
XV MORALITY | 225 |
XVI MEN AND WOMEN | 246 |
XVII SOCIETY | 263 |
XVIII LAST THINGS | 291 |
VIII SACRED WORDS | 120 |
IX SACRED ACTIONS | 128 |
X SPIRITUALITY | 136 |
TEXT AND AUTHOR INDEX | 318 |
SUBJECT INDEX | 330 |
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