ACT 306 WORLD RELGIONS

 
Lecture 1 - An Introduction to the Study of Religion
Supplementry material to lecture 1.
       Chart of worldviews
       Checklist of elements of religious systems
       Study guide to this weeks reading 'Buddhism as a Religion'
 

Lecture 2 - The Noble Truths of Buddhism
Supplementry material to lecture 2.
     True Buddhism and village Buddhism in Sri Lanka
 

Lecture 3 - Theravada Buddhism: Terms and Elements, and the role of Scripture
Supplementry Material to lecture 3.
     Is rebirth an essential Buddhist doctrine?
 

Lecture 4 - More Buddhist Denominations;Mahayana, Vajrayana and Zen
 
Lecture 5 - Buddhism and the Contemporary World. Ministry to Buddhists

Lecture 6 - The Prophet Muhammad and the Pillars of Islam
Supplementry Material to lecture 6.
    Explaining the Trinity to Muslims.

Lecture 7 - The Expansion of Islam: Jihad, Fundamentalism, and Schisms
Supplementry Material to lecture 7.
    Minority Rights or Human Rights?

Lecture 8 - Islamic Sources and beliefs
Supplementry Material to lecture 8.
    Modern Qur'anic Exegesis.


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List of Sources used during this course

Anderson, Sir Norman., (ed.) The World’s Religions, I.V.P., England, 1975.

Barr, James., Fundamentalism, S.C.M. Press, London, 1977.

Beaver, R.P., (ed.) A Lion Handbook: The World’s Religions, Lion Books, Malaysia, 1982.

Brown, D.A., A Guide to Religions, London, S.P.C.K., 1975

Burtt, E.A., (ed.) The Teachings  of the Compassionate Buddha, New American Library, New York, 1955.

Claydon, David., Only Connect: Sharing the gospel across cultural boundaries, Lancer Books, Homebush West, 1993.

Crotty, Robert., Religion Studies: The Long Search, Distance Education Centre, Underdale, 1992.

Davis, J., (ed.) Religious Organization and Religious Experience, Academic Press, London and New York, 1982.

Denny, Fredrick., (ed.) The holy book in comparative perspective, University of South Carolina, South Carolina, 1985.

Fenner, Peter., The self and its destiny in Buddhism, Deakin University, Geelong, 1990.

Gatji, H., The Qur’an and Its Exegesis, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1976.

Hick, John., Death and Eternal Life, Collins Books, London, 1976.

Hefneer, Robert W., ‘Islam, State, and Civil Society: ICMI and the struggle for the Indonesian Middle Class’, Indonesia, No. 56., October 1993.

Hinnells, John R., (ed.) New Handbook of Living Religions, Penguin Books, England, 1998.

Ikeda, Dausaku., Unlocking the Mysteries of Birth and Death: Buddhism in the Contemporary World, Warner Books, Great Britain, 1988.

Kung, Hans., Christianity and the World’s Religions, William Collins Sons & Co, London, 1985.

McDowell, J., Handbook of Today’s Religions, Here’s Life Publishers, California, 1983.

Naim, C.M., Minority Rights or Human Rights, South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XII, No. 2, 1992.

Otto, R., The Idea of the Holy, Oxford University Press, London, 1976.

Owen, Cole W., Six religions of the twentieth century, Amersham, Hutton, 1984.

Rodwell, J.M. (trans.) The Koran, J.M. Dent, London, 1909.

Saeed, Abdulla., Sacred place and sacred life in Islam, Deakin University, Geelong, 1990.

Sharpe, Eric J., Comparative Religion, Duckworth, Haycraft, 1986.

Shepard, William., ‘Fundamentalism’: Christian and Islamic, Religion, No. 17, 1987.

Sri Dhammananda, Dr. K., Buddhism as a religion, Sasana Abhiwurdhi Wardhana Society, Kuala Lumpur, 1994.

Stowasser, Barbara Freyer., (ed.) The Islamic Impulse, Croom Helm, London, 1987.

Weeks, Ian., An introduction to the study of religious systems, Deakin University, Geelong, 1990.

Whitehouse, Aubrey., ‘Explaining the Trinity to Muslims’, On Being, 36 Media Ltd, Hawthorn, May 1996.

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