God : a brief history / John Bowker.
Bowker, John, 1935-
2002
BL82 .B675 2002 (Mapit)
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Title God : a brief history / John Bowker.
Author Bowker, John, 1935-
Edition 1st American ed.
ISBN 0789490129 (pbk.)
9780789490124 (pbk.)
0789480506
9780789480507
0751347884
9780751347883
Publication Details London ; New York : DK Pub., 2002.
Language English
Description 400 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number BL82 .B675 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification 200
Summary The history of God cannot possibly be told. How can you write the history of One who is outside time and space, and who has no beginning and no end? Nevertheless, the desire to understand and experience the divine is a fundamental human need. For billions of people, through many millennia, the quest to answer the basic questions of existence -- Why are we born? What will happen to us when we die? and how should we live out lives? -- has become a search for God. A brief history of God explores the myriad ways in which humans have sought connection to the divine from the dawn of history to the present -- not just through religion and philosophy, but in art and literature, in music and dance, and in science.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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INTRODUCTION
The death of God
Rejecting God
The images of God
speaking of God
Experiencing the world
Experiencing God
Phenomenology
God and values
The death of life of God
IN THE BEGINNING
Introduction and timeline
Goddess
The natural world
Symbol and sign
Music
Ritual
Myth
Sacrifice
Architecture
Art
INDIA
Introduction and timeline
Tamil Nadu
Indus valley
Sacrifice
Three and one
Criticisms of God
The fierce deities
Amitabha
Early philosophies
Rama and Ramayana
Hanuman
The puranas
The Upanishads
Philosophers
Vishnu
Krishna
Krishna and Radha
Vishnu and Krisha
Krishna and devotion
Sex and tantra
Shiva
Shiva's sons
Devotion to Shiva
Goddess and Shakti
Goddess and God
Kabir
Sikhs
Sound
Mandala and Yantra
Temples of India
Pilgrimage
Knowledge and love
From Tagore to Gandhi
THE RELIGIONS OF ASIA
Introduction and timeline
Oracle bones
Tian
Confucius
Nature and God
Daode jing
Three from one
The investiture of the Gods
Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
Korea
Korea and Japan
Japan
Temples and ritual
Mountains
THE RELIGIONS OF ABRAHAM
Introduction and timeline for Judaism
The bible and God
God and lord
Defeat of the gods
The anger of God
The love of God
The holiness of God
Temple, holiness, and priests
Sacrifice and Psalms
The exile
Zoroaster
After the exile
Scripture
Change and stability
Wisdom
Creation
Suffering
The Rabbis
The synagogue
Liturgy
Kabbalah
Maimonides
The Hasidim
The Holocaust
Introduction and timeline for Christianity
The background
Paul
Jesus
The New Testament
The person of Christ
Jesus and God
Three in one
The East-West debate
Darkness and light
The negative way
Celtic Christianity
Augustine
Benedict and Dominic
Francis
Thomas Aquinas
Dante
The way of unknowing
Architecture
Liturgy and drama
Music
Art
Icons
From Greece to Russia
Luther and Calvin
Teresa and John
Ignatius
John Wesley
America
New clothes for old beliefs
God and myth
Beyond reason
Liberation theology
Thealogy
Secularization
Introduction and timeline for Islam
Muhammad
The vision in the cave
The Quran
Calligraphy
Allah in the Quran
God's power
Sufis
Rabia
alHallaj
ibn Arabi
The conference of birds
Rumi
Sufi orders
Sharia
The mosque
alFarabi
ibn Sina
alGhazali
Jihad and martyrdom
IN THE END.

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