Italic page numbers indicate illustrations
advertising 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 10.1
afterlife, theories of 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1
Agnes of Montepulciano, St 1.1, 1.2
akrasia 4.1
Alabbar, Mohamed 10.1
Ando, Tadao: Christian Church of the Light 9.1
Angelico, Fra: Last Judgement 8.1
Anthony of Padua, St 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 8.1, 10.1
architecture: and aesthetics 9.1, 9.2 Buddhist 1.1, 9.3; Christian 9.4
Arnold, Matthew 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6
art: Christian 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 8.1, 8.2 contemporary 8.3, 8.4, 8.5; education in 4.1, 4.2, 4.3; purpose and significance of 8.6, 8.7, 8.8
art galleries see museums and art galleries
astronomy 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1, 10.1
Bach, Johann Sebastian 1.1, 5.1
Banner, Fiona: Every Word Unmade 8.1
Bellini, Giovanni 1.1, 5.1, 8.1
Bible 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 9.1, 10.1;Book of Job 7.1, 7.2; Deuteronomy 4.3; Genesis 4.4; Leviticus 2.1; Psalms 3.3, 4.5, 4.6; Romans 3.4
birkat ilanot (Jewish prayer) 10.1
Birkat Ilanot (Jewish festival) 10.1
Book of Hours 4.1
books: manufacture and sale 4.1, 10.1, 10.2; reading 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 8.1
Brueghel, Jan, the Younger: Paradise 6.1
Buddhism 4.1; Eightfold Path 1.1; Guan Yin 5.1, 5.2; mandalas 8.1, 8.2; meditation 4.2, 4.3; reincarnation 1.2, 1.3; retreats 4.4; places of worship 9.1, 9.2; see also Zen Buddhism
calendars, religious 4.1, 4.2, 7.1
Campaña, Pedro: The Seven Sorrows of
the Virgin 8.1
Cassatt, Mary 8.1; The Child’s Bath5.1
Catholicism: aestheticism 9.1, 9.2; confession 10.1; cura animarum 10.2; edicts and decrees 10.3; Eucharist 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4; Marian cult 5.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4; Mass 2.5, 2.6, 2.7; Missal 2.8, 2.9; prayer 4.1, 4.2, 5.2; retreats 4.3; revenue 10.4; saints 3.1; Stations of the Cross 8.5, 8.6
chanoyu see Zen Buddhism
Christian art see art: Christian
Christian calendar 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 7.1
Christian education 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Christianity: agape feasts 2.1; annunciation 1.1, 8.1; Book of Common Prayer 4.1; crucifixion 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5; early development of 1.2, 4.2; Eucharist 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5; Feast of Fools (festum
fatuorum) 2.1, 2.2; Gospels 2.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 8.1; Marian cult 5.2, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5; Mass 2.4, 2.5, 2.6; Missal 2.7, 2.8; Original Sin 3.1; pilgrimages 4.3, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1; prayer 4.4, 5.3; saints 3.2, 9.3; sermons and oratory 1.1, 1.2, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7; Stations of the Cross 8.6, 8.7; Ten Commandments 3.3; Trinity 1.3; see also Catholicism; churches; Protestantism
churches (buildings) 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
cities see urban life
classics, education in 4.1, 4.2
community, sense of: erosion of 2.1, 2.2; hatred of 2.3; and meals 2.4; and religion 1.1, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10
compassion 1.1, 2.1, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Coquerel, François 8.1
crime 3.1, 3.2, 3.3; fear of 2.1
crucifixion 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 7.1
Duccio di Buoninsegna: The Last Supper2.1
education: and ethics 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 10.1; in humanities 4.6, 4.7, 4.8; oratory and 4.9, 4.10;purpose of 4.11, 4.12, 4.13;religious 4.14, 4.15, 4.16, 4.17;in science 4.18, 9.1; vocational102, 4.19
Eliot, George: Middlemarch 4.1
Eliot, T.S.: The Waste Land 4.1
family; see also marriage; parenting
Feast of Fools (festum fatuorum) 2.1, 2.2
Five Books of Moses see Torah
Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary 4.1
forgiveness 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré: The Rest during
Francis of Assisi, St 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Gannaway, Preston 8.1
Gill, Eric: Jesus Falls a Third Time8.1
Giotto 1.1; The Vices and the Virtues 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
God: invention of 1.1, 3.1, 7.1; non-existence of 1.2, 1.3, 3.2, 7.2
Gospels 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 8.1
Gougan Barra church, Ireland 9.1
Grünewald, Matthias: Isenheim Altarpiece 8.1, 8.2
Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the d’Urbervilles 117
heaven see paradise
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 8.1, 8.2
Hepworth, Dame Barbara 8.1, 8.2
Holy Communion see Eucharist
Isenheim, Monastery of St Anthony
Jerusalem: Wailing Wall 6.1, 6.2
Jews: Bar Mitzvah 2.1, 2.2; funerals 2.3, 2.4; marriages 6.1; meals 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3.1; prayer 6.2; ritual readings 4.1; see also Judaism
Judaism: birkat ilanot 10.1; Birkat Ilanot 10.2; Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 7.1; Haggadah 2.4, 2.5, 2.6; mikveh 4.1, 4.2; Mishnah 3.1, 3.2; Passover 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10; Prayer Book of the United Congregation 6.1; Talmud 3.3, 3.4, 10.3; Ten Commandments 3.5; Torah 4.3, 4.4, 4.5; see also Jews
Katib, Abid: Shifa hospital, Gaza8.1
Lateran, Fourth Council of the (1213–15)
Levitt, Helen: New York8.1, 8.2
libertarianism 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
liberty see freedom
Lippi, Filippino: The Adoration of the
literature 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 8.1
Long, Richard: Red Slate Circle8.1
Mantegna, Andrea: Crucifixion 8.1, 8.2
Mary, Virgin 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4; Seven Sorrows 8.5, 8.6
Mass see Catholicism
Michelangelo Buonarroti: Pietà8.1
Mill, John Stuart 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6; On Liberty 3.1
Milton, John: Paradise Lost 7.1
Missal see Catholicism
monasticism 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1, 8.2
museums and art galleries 2.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1
Nietzsche, Friedrich 1.1, 10.1
Padua: basilica of St Anthony 4.1, 4.2, 10.1; Cappella Scrovegni 3.1, 3.2
paradise 1.1, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 10.1
Pascal, Blaise: Pensées 6.1
paternalism 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
Pentateuch see Torah
philosophy, teaching and study of 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6
physics, teaching and study of
pilgrimages 4.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1
Plato 4.1; Republic 10.1, 10.2
progress, scientific and economic 6.1, 6.2
psalter 3.1
reading 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 8.1
Rembrandt: Christ in the Storm on the
Sea of Galilee 8.1
retreats, religious 4.1
Rilke, Rainer Maria, ‘Archaic Torso of Apollo’
Roman Empire 2.1, 4.1, 9.1; deities 5.1, 9.2; rise of Christianity 1.1, 10.1
Romanticism 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6
Rome: Basilica of San Lorenzo 9.1; Chiesa del Gesù 9.2, 9.3; San Lorenzo in Miranda 1.1
saints 3.1, 9.1; secular 10.1, 10.2; see also individual saints
Salvi, Giovanni Battista: The Madonna in
Sorrow 5.1
sermons 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Seven Sorrows of Mary 8.1, 8.2
sex: and marriage 2.1; religious laws on 3.1
Shakespeare, William 10.1, 10.2
Spinoza, Benedictus de 7.1, 7.2
Stations of the Cross 8.1, 8.2
strangers, fear of 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Struth, Thomas 8.1, 8.2; National
Gallery I, London 8.1
tea ceremony see Zen Buddhism
technological progress 6.1, 6.2
telescopes 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1
Thomas Becket, St 2.1
Titian 8.1, 8.2; The Flight into Egypt8.3, 8.4
Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina 4.1; The Death of Ivan Ilyich 4.2
Torgau: Schloss Hartenfels chapel 9.1, 9.2
Torments of Hell 3.1
tsukimi see Zen Buddhism
universities 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 8.1, 10.1
urban life 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 9.1
Utrecht: Cathedral of St Martin 9.1
van Orley, Bernard: The Seven Sorrows
of the Virgin 8.1
Venice: Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari
Vipers, Father Chris 10.1
weddings see marriage
Woolf, Virginia 3.1
work: careerism 2.1, 2.2; commuting 2.3, 2.4; recruitment 10.1; training manuals 10.2
Yom Kippur see Day of Atonement
Zen Buddhism 2.1, 4.1; chanoyu(tea ceremony) 4.2, 4.3; tsukimi(ritual) celebrations 10.1, 10.2
Zurbarán, Francisco de: The Bound Lamb8.1