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The Sacred Journey:
Religions of the World
Core Discovery Course 166
Course Bibliography: A Partial Listing of Print and Web Materials
Many references and annotations are from Huston Smith's The World's Religions
General | Judaism | Christianity |
Islam | Pilgrimage | Rites of Passage |
Specific titles and resources for this section of the course at the U of I Library.
Adherents.com - A collection of over 41,000 adherent statistics and religious geography citations including references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc.
Anthropology of Religion Links and Lists - Lots of Links - Sponsored by the Society for the Anthropology of Religion
Encyclopedia of Religion and Society - William H. Swatos, Jr. Editor
Virtual Religion Index - Lots of Links to all the religions covered in our course
WWW World Religions - Thomson's Online Religion Course Guide - Annotated
Religion - Wikipedia
Ariel, David. 1988. Mystic Quest: An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson. (on various mystic forms of Judaism)
Holz, Barry. 1986. Back to the Sources. New York: Simon and Schuster. (on different kinds of Jewish texts)
Matt, Daniel Chanan, ed. 1983. The Zohar. New York: Paulist Press. (on Jewish mysticism)
Millgram, Abraham. 1971. Jewish Worship. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society. (a key source on worship ceremonies)
Oppenheimer, Mark. 2005. Thirteen and a Day: The Bar and Bat Mitzvah. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Seltzer, Robert. 1980. Jewish People, Jewish Thought. New York: Macmillan. (complements Smith by giving attention to the post-biblical era)
Steinsaltz, Adin. 1980. The Thirteen Petalled. New York: Basic Books. (on Jewish mysticism)
Swartz, Sarah. 1992. Bar Mitzvah. Sales Books.
Wiesel, Elie. 1993. A Passover Haggadah. New York: Simon and Schuster. (a great access point to this important ritual)
Hebrew Bible - published by the Jewish Publication Society of America, 1917 Edition (web)
The Torah - Wikisource (web)
Judaism - Wikipedia (great place to start)
Judaism 101 (all sorts of great information, including the Pesach or Passover ceremony and rites of passage such as Bar and Bat Mitzvah; web)
Bat and Bat Mitzvah - Wikipedia (web)
Baal Shem Tov (web)
Martin Buber (web)
Matisyahu (web)
Jaffee, Martin. Oral Tradition and Rabbinic Studies (PDF)
Adam, Karl. 1954. The Spirit of Catholicism. New York: Doubleday. (on the Catholic tradition)
Borg, Marcus. 1988. Jesus: A New Vision. San Francisco: Harper and Row. (a most helpful book on the life and mission of Jesus)
Dupre, Louis and James Wiseman. 1988. Light from Light: An Anthology of Christian Mysticism. New York: Paulist Press. (on Christina mysticism)
Forell, George. 1975. The Protestant Faith. Columbus, OH: Augsburg Fortress Publications. (on the Protestant tradition)
Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schussler. 1984. In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins. New York: Crossroads. (great source for a feminine perspective)
Funk, Robert and Roy Hoover. The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus. New York: Macmillan. (impressive work sorting out what Jesus really said, from what others may have attributed to him)
Harris, Stephen. 1985. Understanding the Bible. 2nd ed. Mountain View, California: Mayfield (great background information)
Kung, Hans. 1977. On Being a Christian. New York: HaperCollins. (a thoughtful explanation of what it means to be Christian)
Pelikan, Jaroslav. 1987. Jesus Through the Centuries. New York: Harper and Row. (uses Jesus as a prism through which to provide an overview of Christian thought)
Rhodes, David, Joanna Dewey and Donald Michie. 1999. Mark As Story. 2nd ed. Minneapolis: Fortress Press. (great introduction to this important Gospel and to the teachings of Jesus)
Sandmel, Samuel, ed. The New English Bible, with Apocrypha. New York: Oxford University Press. (great research tool)
Schillebeechz, Edward. 1981. Jesus. New York: Crossroads. (great source of New Testament scholarship)
Theissen, Gerd. 1987. The Shadow of the Galilean. Philadelphia: Fortress Press. (an effective historical novel about Jesus from today's leading German New Testament scholar)
Wansbrough, Henry. 1990. The New Jerusalem Bible. New York: Doubleday. (Scriptures directly translated from the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek texts of the fourth century)
Ware, Timothy. 1986. The Orthodox Church. New York: Penguin Books. (on Eastern Orthodox tradition)
The New Testament Gateway - the award winning web directory of internet resources on the New Testament, currently being updated daily. Browse or search annotated links on everything from the Greek New Testament to Jesus in Film. Maintained by Mark Goodacre, Department of Religion, Duke University. (web)
The Bible - Wikisource (web)
Christianity - Wikipedia (great place to start; web)
Gnosticism - Wikipedia (web)
Gospel of Mark - Wikipedia (web)
Gospel of Thomas - Wikipedia (web)
Book of Revelation - Wikipedia (web)
The Face: Jesus in Art. (video)
From Jesus to Christ. (video)
Apocalypse. (video)
The Last Temptation of Christ. (video)
Gregory, Andrew. On oral and written Gospel? Reflections on remembering Jesus (PDF)
Niditch, Susan. Oral Tradition and Biblical Scholarship (PDF)
Kelber, Werren. Oral Tradition in Bible and New Testament Studies (PDF)
Horseley, Richard. Oral Tradition in New Testament Studies (PDF)
Hearon, Holley. The Implications of "Orality" for the Studies of the Biblical Text. (PDF)
Layton, Richard. Recovering Origen's Pauline Exegesis: Exegesis and Eschatology in the Commentary on Ephesians. (PDF)
Attridge, Harold. Valentianian and Sethian Apocalyptic Tradition. (PDF)
Edwards, Jonathan. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (PDF)
Pickthall, Mohammed. 1953. The Meaning of the Glorious Koran. New York: New American Library. (a serviceable translation of the Koran)
Cragg, Kenneth. The House of Islam. The House of Islam. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. (a good overview)
Danner, Victor. The Islamic Tradition. Amity, NY: Amity House. (a good overview)
Ling, Martin. 1975. What is Sufism? London: Unwin Hyman. (an accessible work on Sufism)
Makris, G. P., 2007. Islam in the Middle East: A Living Tradition. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing
Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. 1989. Ideals and Realities of Islam. San Francisco: HarperCollins. (excellent introduction and overview of Islam)
Parker, Ann. 1995. Hajj Paintings: Folk Art of the Great Pilgrimage. Smithsonian Institution Press.
Peters, F. E. 1994. The Hajj: The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ("Peters's The Hajj provides a clear and accurate picture of the organization of [Muslim] rituals. His book is ... sufficiently comprehensive to replace older accounts of the Hajj. By reading the sources it cites, one can follow the key rituals in some detail."--Robert Irwin, The London Review of Books. " A strong impression of the powerful impact of the pilgrimage on all who witnessed it."--Francis Robinson, The Times Literary Supplement)
Schuon, Frithjof. 1972. Understanding Islam. New York: Penguin Books. (the best, though demanding, metaphysical discussion of the Sufi doctrines, hailed as "the best work in English on the meaning of Islam and why Muslims believe in it.")
Shah, Idries. 1970. Tales of the Dervishes. New York: E.P. Dutton. (wonderful collection of Sufi tales)
Stoddart, William. 1986. Sufism. New York: Paragon Press. (an accessible work on Sufism)
Yusuf Ali, Abdullah. An English Interpretation of The Holy Qur'an. Chicago: Lushena Books.
Westwood, Jennifer Westwood. 2003. On Pilgrimage: Sacred Journeys Around the World. Hidden Spring (includes the Hajj)
The Qur'an - Wikisource (web)
The Qur'an - Muslim Access (web)
Listening to The Qur'an - Islam Way (web)
Islam - BBC (great place to start one's research, with a long list of subject topics; web)
Islam - Wikipedia (great place to start one's research, with lots of links; web)
Islam Yesterday (an overview of Islam in accessible form; web)
The Message. (wonderful dramatization of the life of Muhammad, approved throughout the Islamic world; video)
The Mystics Journey: Islamic Mysticism - The Sufi Way. (Huston Smith introduced Sufism; video)
Inside Islam. (great historical introduction to Islam; video)
Islam: Empire of Faith. Web Video (a three part series, three hour series, narrated by Ben Kingsley, on teachings of Islam and its history, video on Google Video)
On the Hajj (web)
the Hajj - Wikipedia (a great place to start)
A BBC Program - British Broadcasting Company "Religion and Ethics Program" Site, with Images of the Hajj
A Channel 4 Program - with a virtual hajj tour and day-by-day chronicle of events for five pilgrimages, and much more.
the Hajj at Ummah.com, an Islamic news service, by Dr. Monzur Ahmed - lots of information, images and audio materials
the Hajj - Inside Mecca - Web Video (Discovery Channel, April 2006, a 45 minute video, on Google Video)
the Hajj - An insider's view of the Hajj by the American reporter and Muslim, Michael Wolf - Web Video (ABC Nightline, December 2006, a 22 minute video, on Google Video)
Sufism (web) by Alan Godlas, University of Georgia
Cousineau, Phil. 2000. The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred. Conari Press
Westwood, Jennifer Westwood. 2003. On Pilgrimage: Sacred Journeys Around the World. Hidden Spring (includes the Muslim Hajj)
Pilgrimage - Wikipedia (great place to start)
Mircea Eliade. 1954. The Myth of the Eternal Return.
Victor Turner. 1967. "Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites of Passage," in The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual.
---------------. 1995. The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. Aldine de Gruyter
Arnold van Gennep. 1906. The Rites of Passage.
Rites of Passage - Wikipedia (great place to start)
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