Contents
Introduction
COMMON GROUND
01 The God-shaped hole
02 Sacred texts
03 Good and evil
04 Life and death
05 The Golden Rule
06 Rites and rituals
CHRISTIANITY
07 The life of Christ
08 God and Mammon
09 Reformation
10 The papacy
11 Guilt and misogyny
12 The Holy Spirit
13 Saints and sinners
14 Orthodoxy
THE REFORMED TRADITION
15 Luther and his successors
16 Anglicanism
17 Methodism
18 Baptists
19 Presbyterians
20 Sects and cults
21 Rapture
JUDAISM
22 Being Jewish
23 Jewish rites of passage
24 Kabbalah
25 Anti-Semitism
ISLAM
26 The birth of Islam
27 The Pillars of Islam
28 Sunni and Shi’a
29 The heart of Islam
30 Militant Islam
EASTERN TRADITIONS
31 The many faces of Hinduism
32 Hindu worship
33 Samsara
34 Jainism
35 Sikhism
36 Buddha and the Bodhi tree
37 Schools of Buddhism
38 Buddhist wheel of life
39 Confucianism
40 Confucius and the Communists
41 Taoism
42 Shintoism
MODERN DILEMMAS
43 Contemporary credos
44 Religion and science
45 Atheism
46 Stewards of creation
47 The just war
48 The missionary impulse
49 Spirituality
50 The future of religion
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