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100 1 _aCannon, Dale
_eauthor
245 0 0 _aSix Ways of Being Religious
_cDale Cannon
264 2 _bOpen Textbook Library
264 1 _bWadsworth Publishing Company
300 _a1 online resource
490 0 _aOpen textbook library.
505 0 _aPart I Generic Ways Of Being Religious -- Chapter 1 General Introduction -- Chapter 2 Thinking Generically About Religion -- Chapter 3 Different Ways Of Being Religious -- Chapter 4 The Ways Of Being Religious Exemplified -- Chapter 5 Variations In Quality Of Practice Of The Ways -- Chapter 6 Using The Framework -- Part II Applying The Framework To A Comparison Of Whole Traditions -- Chapter 7 Applying The Framework To The Whole Of Buddhism -- Chapter 8 Applying The Framework To The Whole Of Christianity -- Part III Applying The Framework To A Comparison Of Parallel Ways In Different Traditions -- Chapter 9 The Way Of Mystical Quest -- Chapter 10 The Way Of Reasoned Inquiry -- Chapter 11 The Way Of Right Action -- Chapter 12 The Way Of Devotion -- Chapter 13 The Way Of Shamanic Mediation -- Chapter 14 The Way Of Sacred Rite -- Chapter 15 Concluding Reflections: Comparing Buddhism And Christianity By Means Of The Framework -- Glossary Of TermsIndex Of Subjects And NamesIndex Of Religious Traditions --
520 0 _aThe book proposes the hypothesis that six generic ways of being religious may be found in any large-scale religious tradition such as Christianity or Buddhism or Islam or Hinduism: sacred rite, right action, devotion, shamanic mediation, mystical quest, and reasoned inquiry. These are recurrent ways in which, socially and individually, devout members of these traditions take up and appropriate their stories and symbols in order to draw near to, and come into right relationship with, what the traditions attest to be the ultimate reality.
542 1 _fAttribution-NonCommercial
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource
650 0 _aHumanities
_vTextbooks
650 0 _aPhilosophy
_vTextbooks
710 2 _aOpen Textbook Library
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856 4 0 _uhttps://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/542
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