This book is an introduction to Roman Catholicism for college undergraduates. Its hallmark is comprehensiveness. By treating Catholic history, worldview, ritual and ethics, and contemporary trends, the authors suggest the overall shape of the Catholic tradition.

Roman Catholicism: An Introduction

Carmody, Denise Lardner

Carmody, John Tully

Religion & Spirituality

Pearson College Div

This new anthology offers a broad collection of readings on the nature and concept of religion. Selections give readers a comprehensive picture of the growth and development of religion through the ages. Includes a cross-section of scriptural readings, classical books, and scholarly works.

The Range of Religion: An Introductory Reader

Carmody, John

Religious Studies

Pearson

A valuable new work for readers interested in both primitive and world religions. This book examines and compares the religious beliefs of four major groups of non-literate peoples. Focusing on oral societies in North America, South America, Africa, and Australia. The book describes prevailing myths and ceremonies within each group, as well as their views of nature, society, self, and divinity.

Original Visions: The Religions of Oral Peoples

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Contemporary Catholic Theology

Christian Books & Bibles

Harpercollins College Div

This book presents the current concerns of Christian ethics, giving readers the opportunity to view the foundation, as well as the preoccupation of the subjet at hand. Covers a selection of current problems ranging from war and peace, to sexual, medical, and environmental ethics.

Christian Ethics: An Introduction through History and Current Issues

Exploring the Hebrew Bible

Cohn, Robert L.

Exploring the New Testament

Robbins, Gregory Allen

PRENTICE/HALL

An overview of the world's religions with a sketch of the history of religion including prehistoric. Includes chapters on early civilizations, Greek, India, China, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Interpreting the Religious Experience: A Worldview

The particulars of a mystical experience color and shape its essence. But as Denise and John Carmody tell us, be it a Native American vision quest, or the intense soul-wrenching experience of a great storm, or a passionate love, or a dialogue in deep prayer with a personal divinity--any of these can be considered a mystical episode, if it draws us into a direct encounter with ultimate reality. In Mysticism: Holiness East and West, the Carmodys apply this broad definition of mysticism--a direct encounter with ultimate reality--to mystical experiences found in the world's great religions, providing insight into mysticism and into religious practice around the globe. The Carmodys offer an informative survey of the six major world religions--the Hindu, Buddhist, Chinese, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions--and they also examine the religious practices of North American, Latin American, African, and Australian native peoples. They illuminate the history, principal beliefs, and teachings of each religion, and then examine the lives and works of each tradition's outstanding mystics. They show, for instance, how yoga has played a large role in the development of the mystical outlooks that we can trace to India, how prophecy has been significant in the mysticism of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and how shamanism has characterized oral religious practice. We learn how Greek ideas about God came to furnish the basic language of Christian mysticism, from the concerns of the desert fathers for virtue and vice, to the flights into the divine darkness of Gregory, Denis, and the author of The Cloud of Unknowing. Equally important, the Carmodys compare the mysticism found in one tradition with that found in the others, revealing how mystical practice varies widely from one religious group to the next. They find, for instance, that Jewish mystical experience has seldom been given to the magical flight practiced by native American shamans, nor has it over-regarded miracle working. Likewise, the book compares John of the Cross's negation of the self with the Indian doctrine of "not this, not that," which relates to the Buddhist idea of Nirvana. Mystical experience takes us to the center of the world, the source of all creation, the divine place where all that happens finds its sense. Yet it may well be the least understood dimension of humanity's yearning for ultimate meaning. In providing a comprehensive and accessible guide to mysticism, the Carmodys have done a major service for anyone seeking mystical experience and for all those interested in religion as practiced throughout the world.

Mysticism: Holiness East and West

Carmody, the late John Tully

Oxford University Press

Mysticism is pervasive throughout the religions of the world, yet varies widely in its particulars. This comprehensive work surveys the mystical dimension of the world's major religions, beginning with a working description of mysticism as "direct experience of ultimate reality," and examining how this understanding of mysticism holds up when set in interaction with Hindu, Buddhist, Chinese, Japanese, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions. The authors also examine the religious practices of North American, Latin American, African, and Australian native peoples, illuminating the history, principal beliefs, and teachings of each religion, and examining the lives and works of each tradition's outstanding mystics. The result is a dialogue between the particulars of mystical experience, which vary from tradition to tradition, and the generalities they share which make it possible to discuss mysticism across these traditions. This accessibly written introduction will appeal to students of mysticism, readers seeking mystical experience, and all those interested in religion as practiced throughout the world.

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