The Encyclopedia of World Religions

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Tower of Babel 43 Canaanite religion 71, 72 covenant 106 Elijah 134

Dogen 121 worship 478 Zen Buddhism 486, 487 Zen Buddhism 485–488, 486 art 33 Bodhidharma 56 Buddha 65 Buddhism 66 Buddhism in America 68 China 83 Diamond Sutra 119 Dogen 121 Japanese religion 234 koan 256 preaching 349 Taoism 441 Vietnamese religions 466 war and religion 472 zazen 485 Zend Avesta 488, 489 Zeus 187, 488 Zinzendorf, Nikolaus von 474 Zionism 193, 488–489 Zohar 251 Zoroastrianism 489–490 afterlife in world religions 8 apocalyptic literature 23 devils and demons 116 eschatology 136 evil 140 fire and religion 150 hell 196 magi 271 Mithra 296–297 monotheism 299 Parsees 334 salvation 405 war and religion 472 Zarathustra 485 Zend Avesta 488 Zwingli, Huldrich 375–376

women and religion (continued) Holiness movement 204 primal religion 356 sati 408–409 Spiritualism 429 Wordsworth, William 81 works, faith vs. 250

Exodus 141 Ezekiel 142 the Fall 145 Genesis 172–173

World Council of Churches (WCC) 130 World Missionary Conference (Edinburgh, 1910) 129–130 World’s Parliament of Religion (1893) 203 World Trade Center attacks. See September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks World War I 488 World War II 205–206, 234, 248, 488 worship 478–480

goddesses 182 Hosea 209–210 Isaiah 218 Jehovah’s Witnesses 235 Jeremiah 236, 237 Jerusalem 237 prophets, biblical 358 Samaritans 406 Saul 409 scriptures, Hebrew 413 Ten Commandments 445

architecture 29–31 Christianity 86–87 devotion 117 liturgy 265–266 preaching 349 Protestantism 359 Shakers 417

war and religion 472 wisdom literature 476 yin/yang theory 83, 211, 481, 481–482 yoga 482–484 gunas 188 karma 253 lotus 267 mantra 277 sakti, Saktism 404 Siva 426 Yom Kippur 241. See also Day of Atone ment Yoruba 61, 407 Young, Andrew 459 Young, Brigham 263, 264 Z Zarathustra 136, 401–402, 485, 489 zazen 485 brain, mind, and religion 60 Buddhism 66

Wotan 480 Wu (Liang emperor) 56 Wycliffe, John 331

X

Xavier, Francis 238 Xerxes I (Persian emperor) 137, 489

Y

Yama 481 yantra 481, 483 Yassin, Sheikh Ahmed 190, 191 YHWH Amos 13 Baal 43