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conversion 247, 336, 490 Copernicus 104, 410 Coptic Church 102–103 Cortés, Hernán 42 cosmic religion 153, 354–355 cosmogony 103–104, 193

Dharmasastras 59, 75 adh-Dhib, Muhammad 113

Christianity (continued) monotheism 299

dialogue 118–119, 382 Diamond Sutra 119, 124 Diana 119 Diatta, Alinesitoue 5 Diego, Juan 282 diet and religion 119–121, 226, 364, 374. See also fasting Digambara 229, 298 diocese 76, 394 Disciples of Christ (church) 387 dispensationalism 23, 163 Divali 199, 262 divination 211, 213 Dodds, E. R. 425 Dogen 121, 485, 486 dogma and doctrine 121, 143 Dome of the Rock 237, 302 Dominicans 26, 121–122, 217 “dominion theology” 346 Donation of Constantine 334 The Doors of Perception (Huxley) 125

music and religion 305–306 mystery religions 308 Native American religions 315 nature and religion 316

cosmological argument 178, 180 cosmologies 104–105, 106–107 councils, Buddhist 105 councils, Christian 105–106, 128. See also Vatican Councils councils, Roman Catholic 394 counterculture 125, 318, 332 Counter-Reformation 238, 287, 376, 393 covenant 106, 325, 445 Coyote 210, 455 creation and world cycles 103–104, 106–107 creation myth 310, 326 creeds 107, 143 cross 107–108, 239 Crowther, Samuel 4 crucifixion 107, 239 Crusade, Fourth 128 Crusades 108–109, 166, 238, 472–473 Cuba 407, 408 cults and sects, religious 109–110, 319, 432, 457–458 Cultural Revolution 84, 99, 345, 441 Cyrus II (king of Persia) 218, 237, 289, 291 Avalokitesvara 40 Buddhism in America 67–68 India 214–215 Tibetan religion 452 Vajrayana Buddhism 463–464 dance and religion 111–112, 355 Daniel 22–23, 112, 387 Darby, John Nelson 374 Darius (Perisan emperor) 489 Dark Night of the Soul 309 Darrow, Clarence 163 Darwin, Charles 140, 141, 141, 162, 410 Day of Atonement 112, 146, 147, 348, 425 Dead Sea Scrolls 45, 53, 112–113, 136, 361, 415 death and religion 113–115, 431–432 Deer Park 156 Deguchi, Hao 231 Deguchi, Onisaburo 231 Demeter 133, 308 denomination 115, 460 determinism 159 Deuteronomy 301, 444 devils and demons 115–117, 142 devotion, devotionalism 33, 117 dharma in Hinduism and Buddhism 35, 68, 117–118, 200–202, 263 David 112, 237, 361, 409 Da Vinci Code, The 283 D Daimoku 67, 231 dairy products 120 Dalai Lama 111

Noah 325 prayer 348

priests and priesthood 354 religion, study of 381, 382 resurrection 387, 388 Roman religion 396 salvation 405 Satan 408 sin 425 symbolism in religion 435

theodicy 445 theology 447

war and religion 472 witchcraft 476–477 Christianity, independent 88–90 Christian Science 90, 323

Christmas 90–91, 123 Chrysostom, John 21 Chuang-tzu 91 church and state 91–92

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 179 Doyle, Arthur Conan 429 drama, religious 122–124 the Dreaming 39, 40, 104 dreams and religion 124–125 drugs and religion 125, 374 druids 80, 125–126 Druze, the 126 DuBois, W. E. B. 225 Durga 126 Durkheim, Émile 126 animism 18 functionalism 160 religion, definition of 378 religion, study of 383

Christianity, independent 89 Egyptian religion 132 fundamentalism, Islamic 166–167 Protestantism in America 360 sacrifice 402 United States 460 Church of England. See Anglicanism Church of God 92 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. See Latter-day Saints Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. Hialeah 92, 402 Cicero 294, 344–345 City of God, The (Augustine) 39, 432 “Civil Disobedience” (Thoreau) 253 Civil Rights movement 6, 253–255, 275, 459 Clement XIV (pope) 238 Clinton, Bill 47 clothing, religious 96 clowns, religious 96–97, 210 collective unconscious 29, 249 Columbus, Christopher 25, 158, 394 commandments 239, 245 Communion. See Eucharist Communism 83–84, 398–399, 441, 466 computers and religion 97–98 concentration camps 205–206 Confessions (Augustine) 39 Confucianism 82, 98–100, 100, 257, 441, 466, 482 Confucius 13–14, 82, 100–101, 211, 443 Congregationalism 87, 101–102, 459–460 Constantine I (Roman emperor) 45, 85, 102, 107–108, 344 Constantinople 102, 108–109 Constantinople, Patriarch of 128–129 cinema and religion 92–95 circumcision 95–96, 246, 390 Cistercians 454–455

religion, theories of origin of 384 taboo 437 totemism 454

dynamism 18, 126–127

E Easter 75, 128, 265, 300 Eastern Orthodox Christianity 128–129 art 33 Bible 52 Christianity 85–87 Christmas 90 councils, Christian 105

Eucharist 138 feminism 148 magi 271 missionaries 296 monks and nuns 298

papacy 333 prayer 348 Roman Catholicism 393 Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy in America 395

Russia 398–399 sacraments 400 saints 403 Ecclesiastes 475, 476