The Encyclopedia of World Religions

Index S 505

fire and religion 151 fundamentalism 161

Islam 224 mosque 302 Shi’ite Islam 420 Sunni Islam vs. 433 immaculate conception 281 Inanna 212–213 Inca religion 213–214 incarnation 129, 214, 240, 428 incense 214 India Asoka 35 Banaras 45 bhakti 50 flood stories 151, 153

art 34 cats and religion 78 China 84 circumcision 96 Crusades 108, 109

guru 188 India 215 jivanmukti 242 lotus 267 meditation 287 monks and nuns 298 monotheism 299 nature and religion 316 pilgrimage 343 politics and religion 345–346

death and religion 114 devils and demons 116 diet and religion 120 drama 123–124 evil 140 faith 143 free will and determinism 159 fundamentalism 161 fundamentalism, Hindu 165 hell 196 homosexuality and religion 208 India 215 Jerusalem 237–238 judgment of the dead 248–249 missionaries 296 monotheism 299 mountains and religion 303 music and religion 305 pacifism 331 pilgrimage 343 politics and religion 344, 345 prayer 348 resurrection 387, 388 Satan 408 suicide and religion 432 theology 447 Malcolm X 275 martyrdom 280 Mary 281 messiah 291 miracles 294

prajna 347 prayer 348 puja 362

Mohandas K. Gandhi 169–171 Ganges River 171–172 Parsees 334 politics and religion 344–346 Rama, Ramayana 372 religions of 214–215 . See also specific religions, e.g. Hinduism yantra 481 yoga 482–484

reincarnation 377 samsara 406, 407 soul 428

suicide and religion 432 symbolism in religion 435 theology 447 war and religion 472 Hinduism, new movements in 202–203 Hinduism in America 203–204 Hitler, Adolf 205, 248 Holi 199, 210 Holiness movement 6, 93, 204–205, 316–317, 337 the Holocaust 21, 22, 205–207, 206 m, 446, 488, 489 holy, idea of the 207–208 Holy Communion. See Eucharist “holy fools” 94, 210, 398 Holy Land 237, 343, 472 Holy Roman Empire 375, 393 Homer 184, 465, 488 homosexuality and religion 18, 135, 208, 208–209 Honen 234, 278, 363 Hopkins, Emma Curtis 322 Horus 193, 209, 255 Hosea 209–210 Hsun Tzu 98, 383 Hubbard, L. Ron 410 humanism, religious 209, 382–383, 458 Humbard, Rex 444 Hume, David 141, 162, 294 I ibn Ali, Hamza 126 I Ching 100, 211, 466 The Idea of the Holy (Otto) 207, 329 Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus (Univer sal Church of God’s Kingdom; IURD) 61 “I Have a Dream” speech (Martin Luther King Jr.) 253–254, 275 images, icons, idols in religion 211–212, 362 imam 212 humor and religion 210 Hutchinson, Anne 365 Huxley, Aldous 125, 203 Hyles, Jack 163

Indra 215–216 indulgences 267 Indus Valley religion 199, 214, 216, 482–483 initiation, religious 216–217 Australian religions 40 homosexuality and religion 209

monks and nuns 297 mystery religions 308 Pacific Ocean religions 330 primal religion 355–356 rites of passage 390–391

the Inquisition 122, 217, 243 intelligent design 163, 178, 180 International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKON) 202–204, 258–260 Internet 97, 224 “Intimations of Immortality” (Wordsworth) 81 Iranian religion 485, 489–490 Iranian Revolution (1979) 167, 221, 345 Iraq 289–291 Irenaeus 320, 446 Isaac 1, 2, 172, 217–218, 228, 374–375 Isaiah 23, 218, 265, 291 Ise 219 Isherwood, Christopher 203 Ishmael (son of Abraham) 1, 2, 218, 251, 287, 408 Isis, Isaic religion 132, 209, 219, 219–220, 308, 329 ISKON. See International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKON) Islam 220–225, 222 m . See also specific forms of Islam, e.g.: Shi’ite Islam Abraham 1–2 Adam 2 Africa, new religious movements in 5 African religions 7 afterlife in world religions 8 architecture 30

war and religion 472 Zoroastrianism 489 Islam, Nation of 6, 120, 220, 225–226, 226, 275 Islam, radical 366 Islam in America 226–227 Israel. See also Jacob Amos 13 covenant 106 David 112 Elijah 134 Exodus 141 fundamentalism, Islamic 166, 167

Hamas 190, 191 Hosea 209–210 Isaiah 218

Jerusalem 237 Moses 300–301 prophets, biblical 358 Samaritans 406 Saul 409 Ten Commandments 445

Israel, 12 tribes of 228 Israel, modern the Holocaust 206 Jerusalem 238 Judaism 246, 247 rabbi, rabbinate 371 Zionism 488, 489 Izanagi and Izanami 227

Aga Khan 9 ayatollah 41