The Encyclopedia of World Religions

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A lthough the writers and editors of this ency clopedia and the members of the editorial board are all original scholars in their own right, the ideas in this book are not entirely original or new. The writers have regularly consulted a vari ety of basic sources in preparing this volume, and we list them here. Encyclopedias and Dictionaries The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions, John Bowker, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Encyclopaedia Judaica, Cecil Roth, ed. New York: Macmillan, 1972. The Encyclopedia of Religion, 2d ed., Lindsay Jones et al., eds. Detroit: Thomson/Gale, 2005. HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion, Jonathan Z. Smith et al., eds. San Francisco: HarperSan Francisco, 1995. New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2d ed. Detroit: Thom son/Gale, 2003. The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3d rev. ed., Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Sacred Texts Buddhist Scriptures, Donald S. Lopez, ed. New York: Penguin Putnam, 2004. Charles, R. H. Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Ehrman, Bart D. Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Make It into the New Testament. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

The Koran: With a Parallel Arabic Text, N. J. Dawood, trans. New York: Penguin Books, 2000. Narayan, R. K. Gods, Demons, and Others. New York: Bantam Books, 1986. The New Oxford Annotated NRSV Bible with the Apocrypha, 3d ed., Michael D. Coogan et al., eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures, The New JPS Trans lation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1985. Tao te ching: A Literal Translation with an Intro duction, Notes, and Commentary, Chichung Huang, ed. Fremont, Calif.: Asian Humanities Press, 2003. Upanishads, Patrick Olivelle, trans. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. General Surveys Eliade, Mircea. The Sacred and the Profane. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1961. Ellwood, Robert, and Barbara McGraw. Many Peoples, Many Faiths: An Introduction to the Religious Life of Humankind, 8th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2005. The Study of Religions Eliade, Mircea. The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion. New York: Harper & Row, 1961. Ludwig, Theodore M. The Sacred Paths: Under standing the Religions of the World. 3d ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2001.

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