Download or read book International biographical dictionary of religion written by Jon C. Jenkins and published by K G Saur Verlag Gmbh & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference work profiles 4,000 religious leaders, reflecting every major belief system around the globe: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Baha'i, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, Confucianism, and Shintoism.Along with the name and title of each individual, entries reveal nationality, birth-date and place, marital status, children, religion, ordination date, language(s), position(s) in religious and other organizations, education, career, publications, civic and other activities, home and business addresses, and telephone numbers.Accessible by nationality, profession, and religious tradition, the single compilation helps users quickly identify members of corresponding positions and hierarchies -- from spiritual leaders, priests, rabbis, imams, monks, and nuns to administrators, theologians, and other academics.
Download or read book The HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion written by Jonathan Z. Smith and published by Harper San Francisco. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers more than three thousand articles on the world of religion.
Download or read book The Dictionary of Religion written by William Benham and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of International Biography written by Nicholas S. Law and published by Melrose Press, Limited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With information on more than 5,000 prominent individuals this international reference covers such fields as politics, religion, the arts, science and medicine, psychology, education, economics, sociology, law, physics, and business. Entries are cross-referenced to other professional, national, and international directories in which the individuals are listed.
Download or read book Who s who in Theology and Science written by Templeton Foundation and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New revised edition of the international bibliographical and biographical guide.
Download or read book The International Dictionary of Religion written by R. Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dictionary of Religion written by William Benham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Dictionary of Religion: An Encyclopaedia of Christian and Other Religious Doctrines, Denominations, Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Terms, History, Biography, Etc With regard to the amps of the work, the biographical articles are exclu sively of persons whose course on earth is ended, though of necessity it is imposible to avoid references to living men who have taken part in current controversies. Articles of purely Scriptural History, Topography, and Exegesis, are excluded, as they are already treated of in what are known as Bible Dictionaries. The present volume has to do with Ecclesiastical History and Doctrine, and with the known Religions of the ancient and modern world, and the topics and the persons connected with these subjects. Even with these limitations, the difficulty has been to compress what was required within a manageable compass; and it is believed that the dedication of the space at command to information, much of which is not otherwise readily accessible, was preferable to occupying a large portion of it with details which can be easily referred to elsewhere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Twentieth century Dictionary of Christian Biography written by James Dixon Douglas and published by Baker Publishing Group (MI). This book was released on 1995 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, a companion to the New Twentieth-Century Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge covers about 750 men and women whose lives and works have touched modern Christian history. Articles by 130 contributors describe each person's contribution and list major writings. Subjects chosen represent the Christian world of the late 19th and 20th centuries theologically and geographically.
Download or read book Who s Who of World Religions written by John R. Hinnells and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-12-12 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In historical terms, religions do not exist apart from the people who practise them. This is the first collection of biographical studies of figures from religions around the globe and from traditions both ancient and modern. It represents the work of an enormous international team of scholars, and although many entries involve original research, this substantial work of reference is intended to be of use to both the specialist and the general reader. Particular care has been taken to ensure a balance between religions and to include figures from the diverse branches of the different religions. Indexes and an extensive bibliography make it an invaluable working tool.
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations written by Joseph Mazzini Wheeler and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Stuart Mill in his "Autobiography" declares with truth that "the world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue are complete sceptics in religion." Many of these, as Mill points out, refrain from various motives from speaking out. The work I have undertaken will, I trust, do something to show how many of the world's worthiest men and women have been Freethinkers. My Dictionary does not pretend to be a complete list of those who have rendered services to Freethought. To form such a compilation would rather be the task of an international society than of an individual. Moreover details concerning many worthy workers are now inaccessible. Freethought boasts its noble army of martyrs of whom the world was not worthy, and who paid the penalty of their freedom in prison or at the stake. Some of the names of these are only known by the vituperation of their adversaries. I have done my best to preserve some trustworthy record of as many as possible.
Download or read book The International Dictionary of Religion written by Richard Kennedy and published by New York : Crossroad. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profusely illustrated dictionary explains the technical terms, principles and practices of major world religions.
Download or read book DICT OF RELIGION AN ENCYCLOPAE written by William 1831-1910 Benham and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations written by J. M. Wheeler and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The work throughout has been a labor of love.....' 'A Classic' A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations by J. M. Wheeler. John Stuart Mill in his "Autobiography" declares with truth that "the world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue are complete sceptics in religion." Many of these, as Mill points out, refrain from various motives from speaking out. The work I have undertaken will, I trust, do something to show how many of the world's worthiest men and women have been Freethinkers. My Dictionary does not pretend to be a complete list of those who have rendered services to Freethought. To form such a compilation would rather be the task of an international society than of an individual. Moreover details concerning many worthy workers are now inaccessible. Freethought boasts its noble army of martyrs of whom the world was not worthy, and who paid the penalty of their freedom in prison or at the stake. Some of the names of these are only known by the vituperation of their adversaries. I have done my best to preserve some trustworthy record of as many as possible. The only complete work with a similar design of which I have any knowledge, is the Dictionnaire des Athées anciens et modernes, by Sylvain Maréchal with its supplements by Jerome de Lalande the Astronomer, An. VIII. (1800)-1805. That work, which is now extremely rare, gave scarcely any biographical details, and unfortunately followed previous orthodox atheographers, such as Buddeus, Reimmann, Hardouin, Garasse, Mersenne, in classing as Atheists those to whom the title was inapplicable. I have taken no names from these sources without examining the evidence. A work was issued by Richard Carlile in 1826, entitled A Dictionary of Modern Anti-Superstionists; or, "an account, arranged alphabetically, of those who, whether called Atheists, Sceptics, Latitudinarians, Religious Reformers, or etc., have during the last ten centuries contributed towards the diminution of superstition. Compiled by a searcher after Truth." The compiler, as I have reason to know, was Julian Hibbert, who brought to his task adequate scholarship and leisure. It was, however, conceived on too extensive a scale, and in 128 pages, all that was issued, it only reached to the name of Annet. Julian Hibbert also compiled chronological tables of English Freethinkers, which were published in the Reasoner for 1855.
Download or read book Recent Reference Books in Religion written by William M. Johnston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent Reference Books in Religion provides incisive summaries and evaluations of more than 350 contemporary reference works on religious traditions ancient and modern that have been published in English, French and German. For maximum usefulness to readers, Professor Johnston has broadly defined religion to include not just the world religion of Christianity , Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism but also such alternative approaches as mythology, folklore, and the philosophy of ethics. Each entry, analyzing a particular work, includes full bibliographic details as well as commentary: outstanding articles and contributors are highlighted, strengths and weaknesses are carefully noted and weighed. Readers are directed to volumes whose strengths and weaknesses are carefully noted and weighed. Readers are directed to volumes whose strengths complement the weaknesses of others. An indispensable guide in any religious studies collection, Recent Reference Books in Religion: 2nd Edition includes works published through the end of 1997. It also includes a Glossary that describes types and functions of refernce books, and five indexes: Titles, Authors, Topics, Persons and Places.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge written by John Newton Brown and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 1338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Judaism written by Norman Solomon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Judaism covers the history of the Jewish religion, ranging from its biblical roots, through its formulation in the era of the Talmud, to the present day. This collection covers the development of Judaism in the medieval Christian and Islamic worlds, its varied responses to Enlightenment and modernity, the creation of new philosophies of Judaism in the wake of the Holocaust, and the establishment of the State of Israel, and contemporary issues such as feminism, secularism, and the ethics of war and medicine. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 800 cross-referenced entries on important personalities in Jewish religious history, including biblical personalities with an emphasis on how they are understood in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic tradition. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Judaism.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Global Religion written by Mark Juergensmeyer and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012 with total page 1529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents entries A to L of a two-volume encyclopedia discussing religion around the globe, including biographies, concepts and theories, places, social issues, movements, texts, and traditions.
