Table of Contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Copyright Page
4. Dedication
5. Contents
6. List of Entries
7. Contributors
8. Acknowledgments
9. Introduction
10. Abbreviations
11. A
    1. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
    2. Adam-God Theory
    3. Adonai-Shomo
    4. Advaita
    5. Adventist Movement
    6. Ahimsa
    7. Ahmad, Mirza Ghulam
    8. Ahmadiyya Islam
    9. Ahura Mazda
    10. Albertus Magnus
    11. Ali, Maulana Muhammad
    12. Al-Qadr
    13. American Zen College
    14. Amesha Spentas
    15. Analects, The
    16. Ananda Marga Yoga Society
    17. Anandamurti, Shrii Shrii
    18. Anekantavada
    19. Angels
    20. Angra Mainyu
    21. Animism
    22. Anitya
    23. Annihilationism
    24. Anointing
    25. Anthropology in Christian Theology
    26. Anthropology of Religion
    27. Antinomianism
    28. Antinomianism, Non-Christian
    29. Apologetics
    30. Apostasy, Biblical View of
    31. Apostasy, Mormon View of
    32. Apostles, Belief in the Modern Existence of
    33. Arhat
    34. Arianism
    35. Arihant (Jainism)
    36. Armageddon
    37. Articles of Faith, Mormon
    38. Asceticism
    39. Atman
    40. Atonement
    41. Aurobindo, Sri
    42. Auroville International
    43. Avatar
    44. Avesta
    45. Avestan
    46. Avidya
    47. Azusa Street Revival
12. B
    1. Báb
    2. Bahá’í
    3. Bahá’u’lláh
    4. Baptism, Christian
    5. Baptism, Non-Christian
    6. Baptism in the Holy Spirit, Pentecostal View of
    7. Baptism of the Dead, Christian
    8. Baptism of the Dead, Mormon
    9. Bar/Bat Mitzvah
    10. Bardo
    11. Bazm-e-Tolu-e-Islam
    12. Benson, Ezra Taft
    13. Beth el Shaddai Messianic Fellowship
    14. Bhagavad Gita
    15. Bhagavan
    16. Bhajan, Yogi
    17. Bhakti Yoga
    18. Bhikkhu
    19. Bible, Canon of
    20. bin Laden, Osama bin Muhammad bin ‘Awad
    21. Blood Atonement
    22. Blood Transfusions
    23. Bodhi
    24. Bodhicitta
    25. Bodhidharma
    26. Bodhisattva
    27. Book of Abraham
    28. Book of Mencius (Meng-tzu)
    29. Book of Mormon
    30. Book of Moses
    31. Book of the Dead, Egyptian
    32. Book of the Dead, Tibetan
    33. Brahma
    34. Brahmacharya
    35. Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organization
    36. Brahmanism
    37. Branch
    38. Buddha, Historical Person of
    39. Buddha, Names of
    40. Buddha, Nine Attributes of
    41. Buddha, Three Bodies of
    42. Buddhism
    43. Buddhist Churches of America
    44. Buddhist Scriptures
    45. Butsu-dan
13. C
    1. Caste
    2. Celestial Kingdom
    3. Celestial Marriage
    4. Chakras
    5. Chalcedonian Controversy
    6. Chan-khong/Zhenkong
    7. Chela
    8. Chen-jen/Zhenren
    9. Chinmaya Mission
    10. Chinmayananda, Swami
    11. Chinmoy, Sri
    12. Christ, Natures and Attributes of
    13. Christian
    14. Christian, Use and Misuse of the Term
    15. Christianity, Protestant
    16. Christian Zionism
    17. Ch’un Ch’iu / Chunqiu
    18. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
    19. Community of Christ
    20. Conditional Immortality
    21. Confucianism
    22. Confucius
    23. Council of the Seventy
    24. Cowdery, Oliver
14. D
    1. Dalai Lama XIV (Tenzin Gyatso)
    2. Danites
    3. Dark Skin Curse
    4. Darshana
    5. Da’wah
    6. Day of Judgment, Islamic
    7. Deification, Christian View of
    8. Deification, Mormon View of
    9. Demons and Demonization in the Bible
    10. Dependent Origination
    11. Devekuth
    12. Dharma
    13. Dharmakaya
    14. Dhikr
    15. Dhimmi
    16. Divination in the Bible
    17. Docetism
    18. Doctrine and Covenants
    19. Doctrine of the Mean (Chung-yung/Zhongyong)
    20. Dravya
    21. Druze, The
    22. Dual Covenant Theory
    23. Dualism
    24. Dukkha/Duhkha
15. E
    1. Eastern Orthodoxy
    2. Effendí, Shoghí
    3. Eightfold Path
    4. Enlightenment
    5. Eternal Life
    6. Eucharist
    7. Evangelicalism
    8. Evangelism
    9. Exaltation
16. F
    1. False Prophecy
    2. Fana (or Fanaa)
    3. Feng Shui
    4. Fiqh
    5. First Vision
    6. Forty Immortals
    7. Four Noble Truths
    8. Fravashi
    9. Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
    10. Fundamentalism, Christian
17. G
    1. Gabriel the Archangel, Non-Christian Views of
    2. Gabriel the Archangel in the Bible
    3. Gassho
    4. Gathas
    5. Genealogies, Mormon
    6. Ghanta
    7. God, Mormon View of
    8. Gohonzon
    9. Golden Temple
    10. Gongyo
    11. Gospel of Barnabas
    12. Great Learning, The
    13. Guru
    14. Guru Dev
    15. Guru Granth Sahib
    16. Guru Nanak Dev
    17. Gyatso, Geshe Kelsang
18. H
    1. Hadith
    2. Halacha
    3. Hanukkah (or Chanukah), Feast of
    4. Harris, Martin
    5. Hasidism
    6. Heaven, Biblical Doctrine of
    7. Heavenly Mother
    8. Hell, Orthodox and Unorthodox Christian Views of
    9. Heresy, Definition of
    10. Heretic
    11. Hinayana
    12. Hinduism
    13. Holy Spirit, Biblical View of
    14. Holy Spirit, Misconceptions about
    15. Hsiao-ching/Xiaojing
19. I
    1. Ichinen Sanzen
    2. I Ching / Yijing
    3. Idolatry
    4. Incarnation
    5. Inerrancy
    6. Injil
    7. International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)
    8. Islam, Basic Beliefs of
    9. Islam, Eschatology of
    10. Issa
20. J
    1. Jainism
    2. Japa Yoga
    3. Jehovah
    4. Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW)
    5. Jesus, Historical Evidence for
    6. Jesus, Mormon View of
    7. Jihad
    8. Jina
    9. Jiriki
    10. Jizya
    11. John 1:1
    12. Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible
    13. Journal of Discourses
    14. Judaism
    15. Justification, Biblical Doctrine of
    16. Juzu
21. K
    1. Kabbalah
    2. Kalacakra
    3. Kalacakra Tantra
    4. Kalpa Sutra
    5. Kami
    6. Karma
    7. Karmi
    8. Khalsa
    9. Knights Templar
    10. Koan
    11. Ko-ji-ki
    12. Kosher (Kasher)
    13. Krishna
    14. Krishna Consciousness
    15. Kumbha Mela
    16. Kundalini
    17. Kwan Yin
22. L
    1. Lamanites
    2. Lao Tzu / Laozi
    3. Legalism from a Christian Perspective
    4. Liberal Christianity
    5. Li Chi / Liji
    6. Lieh-tzu/Liezi
    7. Lingam
    8. Liturgy
    9. Logos
    10. Lost Books of the Bible, Mormon View of
    11. Lotus Sutra
    12. Lucifer, Mormon View of
23. M
    1. Madhyamaka
    2. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
    3. Mahavira
    4. Mahayana Buddhism
    5. Mahikari
    6. Maitreya
    7. Mandala Diagram
    8. Mantra
    9. Mariolatry
    10. Maronite Christians
    11. Martial Arts, East Asian
    12. Masonry (LDS)
    13. Materialism
    14. Maya
    15. Meditation
    16. Mevlevi Order
    17. Michael the Archangel
    18. Mikveh/Mikvaot
    19. Miller, William
    20. Millerite Movement
    21. Miracles in Non-Christian Religions
    22. Missiology
    23. Modalism
    24. Moksha
    25. Monarchianism
    26. Monophysitism
    27. Monotheism
    28. Monothelitism
    29. Mountain Meadows Massacre
    30. Mudra
    31. Muhammad
    32. Muhammad, Elijah
    33. Muslim
    34. Mysticism
    35. Myth
    36. Mythology
24. N
    1. Nabuwwat
    2. Namaste
    3. Nation of Islam
    4. Native Americans, Mormon View of
    5. Neo-orthodox Christianity
    6. Nephites
    7. New World Translation
    8. Nibley, Hugh Winder
    9. Nichiren Daishonin
    10. Nichiren Shoshu
    11. Nirvana
    12. Nyingma
25. O
    1. Occult
    2. Oneness Pentecostalism
    3. Openness of God
    4. Origen on Preexistence
    5. Orthodoxy
    6. Overseer
26. P
    1. Pahlavi Texts
    2. Pali Canon
    3. Panentheism
    4. Pantheism
    5. Paramahansa, Swami Muktananda
    6. Pearl of Great Price, The
    7. Pelagianism
    8. Pesach (Passover)
    9. Plural Marriage, Mormon Teaching and History of
    10. Polygamy
    11. Polytheism
    12. Prabhupada, Abhay Charan de Bhaktivedanta Swami
    13. Prana
    14. Pranayama
    15. Prasadam
    16. Pratt, Orson
    17. Pratt, Parley
    18. Pratyeka Buddha
    19. Preexistence, Mormon View of
    20. Process Theology
    21. Providence of God
    22. P’u/Pu
    23. Puja
    24. Pure Land Buddhism
    25. Purim (the Feast of Lots)
27. Q
    1. Quorum of the Seventy
    2. Qur’an
28. R
    1. Raja Yoga
    2. Rama
    3. Rama, Swami
    4. Ramakrishna, Sri
    5. Ramana Maharishi
    6. Ramanuja
    7. Reformed Egyptian
    8. Reiki
    9. Reincarnation
    10. Religion
    11. Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
    12. Ren/Jen
    13. Resurrection of Jesus
    14. Revelation
    15. Revelation, General
    16. Rites of Passage
    17. Rituals
    18. Roman Catholicism
    19. Rosh Hashanah (the Feast of Trumpets)
29. S
    1. Sabbatarianism
    2. Sacraments
    3. Sacred Fire
    4. Sadhana
    5. Sai Baba, Sathya
    6. Salvation, Evangelical View of
    7. Samadhi
    8. Samsara
    9. Sangha
    10. Sankara
    11. Sankirtan, The Hare Krishna Practice of
    12. Sankirtana
    13. Sannyasa
    14. Saoshyant
    15. Satori
    16. Scripture, Interpretation of
    17. Seer Stones
    18. Seicho-No-Ie
    19. Sema
    20. Seventh-day Adventism
    21. Shabbat (the Sabbath), Jewish
    22. Shakti
    23. Shari‘ah
    24. Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks)
    25. Shaykh/Sheikh
    26. Shih Ching / Shijing
    27. Shi‘a Islam
    28. Shin Buddhism
    29. Shinto
    30. Shiva
    31. Shree/Shri/Sri
    32. Shruti/Sruti
    33. Shu-ching/Shujing
    34. Siddha Yoga
    35. Sikh Dharma
    36. Sikh Foundation
    37. Sikhism
    38. Smith, Joseph, III
    39. Smith, Joseph, Jr.
    40. Smith, Joseph F.
    41. Smith, Joseph Fielding
    42. Smith Bidamon, Emma
    43. Smriti
    44. Snow, Lorenzo
    45. Socinianism
    46. Sociology of Religion
    47. Soka Gakkai
    48. Soul Sleep
    49. Speaking in Tongues
    50. Spirituality, Christian
    51. Standard Works
    52. Stigmata
    53. Sufism
    54. Sukkoth (the Feast of Tabernacles)
    55. Suluk
    56. Sunnah
    57. Sunni Islam
    58. Sunyata
    59. Sutra
    60. Swami
    61. Synagogue
    62. Syncretism
30. T
    1. Talmage, James
    2. Talmud
    3. Tanach
    4. Tantra
    5. Tantric Yoga
    6. Taoism/Daoism
    7. Tao Te Ching / Dao de jing
    8. Tawheed
    9. Tawrat
    10. Taylor, John
    11. Telestial Kingdom
    12. Temple in Judaism
    13. Temples in Mormonism
    14. Ten Lost Tribes, Alternative Views of
    15. Terrestrial Kingdom
    16. Testimony in Mormonism
    17. Tetragrammaton
    18. Theological Method of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
    19. Theravada Buddhism
    20. Tibetan Buddhism
    21. T’ien/Tian
    22. Tirthankara
    23. Torah
    24. Torii
    25. Trikaya
    26. Trinitarian Controversies
    27. Trinity, The
    28. Trinity, Patristic Support for
    29. Tripitaka
    30. Twelve Tribes
    31. Tzaddik
31. U
    1. Unitarianism
    2. Upanishads
    3. Urim and Thummim, Mormon Use of
32. V
    1. Vajrayana Buddhism
    2. Vedanta
    3. Vedas
    4. Vipasyana
    5. Virgin Birth
    6. Vishnu
33. W
    1. Wahhabiyya Islam
    2. War and Peace in World Religions
    3. Ward
    4. Watchtower, The
    5. Wisdom, Biblical View of
    6. Word of Wisdom
    7. World Council of Churches
    8. World’s Parliament of Religions (1893 and 1993)
    9. Wu-wei
34. X
    1. Xiao/Hsiao
35. Y
    1. Yahwehism
    2. Yidam
    3. Yin and Yang
    4. Yoga
    5. Yogananda, Swami Paramahansa
    6. Yogi
    7. Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)
    8. Yoni
    9. Young, Brigham
36. Z
    1. Zabur
    2. Zarathustra (Nietzsche)
    3. Zen Buddhism
    4. Zhuang-zi/Chuang-tzu
    5. Zion, Mormon Beliefs about
    6. Zionism
    7. Zohar
    8. Zoroaster
    9. Zoroastrianism
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