World Religions Reference Library - All 5 Volumes + Index

Contents:

Almanac - VOLUME 1

Chapter 1: What is Religion?
Chapter 2: Agnosticism and Atheism
Chapter 3: Ancient Religions of Egypt and Mesopotamia
Chapter 4: Baha´

Chapter 5: Buddhism
Chapter 6: Christianity
Chapter 7: Confucianism
Chapter 8: Daoism
Chapter 9: Greco-Roman Religion and Philosophy

Almanac - VOLUME 2

Chapter 10: Hinduism
Chapter 11: Indigenous Religions
Chapter 12: Islam
Chapter 13: Jainism
Chapter 14: Judaism
Chapter 15: Neo-Paganism
Chapter 16: Shinto
Chapter 17: Sikhism
Chapter 18: Zoroastrianism

Biographies - VOLUME 1

Abraham
Akhenaten
Ali ibn Abi Talib
Anaxagoras
Aristotle
Baha´ulla´h
Black Elk
The Buddha
Caitanya Mahaprabhu
John Calvin
Confucius
Dalai Lama
Dayananda Sarasvati
Anagarika Dharmapala
Dipa Ma
Enheduanna
Mahatma Gandhi
Gerald Brousseau Gardner
Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali
Gobind Singh
Ibn Khaldun
Israel ben Eliezer
Jalal ad-Din arRumi
Jesus Christ
Khadijah

Biographies - VOLUME 2

Laozi
Nechama Leibowitz
Ignatius of Loyola
Martin Luther
Madhva
Mahavira
Moses Maimonides
Karl Marx
Moses Mendelssohn
Moses
Muhammad
Nichiren
Saint Paul
Plato
Rabiah al-Adawiyah
Ramanuja
Mother Maria Skobtsova
Malidoma Patrice Some´
Mother Teresa
Thich Nhat Hanh
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
Usuman Dan Fodio
Swami Vivekananda
Isaac Mayer Wise
Zarathushtra

Primary Sources

Chapter 1: Creation Stories and Foundation Myths 1

Excerpt from the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible)
Excerpt from Tales from the Kojiki
Excerpt from the Quran
Excerpt from Black Elk Speaks
Excerpt from Collected Essays, vol. 5: Science and Christian Tradition

Chapter 2: Characteristics of the Divine

Excerpt from The Epic of Gilgamesh
Excerpt from The Odyssey
Excerpt from Shri Guru Granth Sahib
Excerpt from Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner
Excerpt from ‘‘Paper on Hinduism’’

Chapter 3: Religion as a Guide to Living

Excerpt from The Analects of Confucius
Excerpt from Gaina Sutras
Excerpt from Dao De Jing
Excerpt from The Dhammapada
Excerpt from The Hidden Words of Baha´ulla´h
Excerpt from Avesta, as reproduced in The Divine Songs of Zarathushtra
Excerpt from ‘‘The Philosophy of Atheism’’
Excerpt from the Bible