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Sacred Journey into Religious Communities
Integrated Seminar 101
Course Bibliography: A Partial Listing of Print and Web Materials
| General | American Indian | Buddhism - General |
| Buddhism - Theravada | Buddhism - Mahayana | |
| Zen Buddhism | Hinduism | Taoism |
| 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
WWW World Religions - Thomson's Online Religion Course Guide - Annotated
Religion - Wikipedia
American Indian (includes print and web sites)
General Overview of Indian Peoples
Arctic Peoples (including the Inuit)
Plains Indians (including the Blackfeet, Crow, Lakota)
Crow Sundance Photo Gallery. The photo sequence portrays the sweat bath and fasting rituals, and the Sundance ceremony, including construction of the lodge and the key elements of the ritual, primarily in its contemporary form. Photographer include Edward Curtis, Sally Old Coyote and others.
Plateau Indians, web links and print sources (including the Coeur d'Alene, Nez Perce and Warm Springs)
Southwest Indians (including the Navajo and Apache)
Southwest Indians (including the various Pueblo Peoples)
Northwest Coastal Indians (including the Kwakiutl and Tlingit)
Eastern Woodland Indians (including the Iroquois)
WWW Native American Links - Thomson's Online Religion Course Guide - Annotated
Armstrong, Karen. 2001. Buddha. New York: Viking Books.
Coomaraswamy, Ananda. 1969. Introduction to Indian Art. 2nd edition. Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal.
Earhart, H. Byron. 1982. Japanese Religion: Unity and Diversity. 3rd edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing. (Includes various Buddhist sects)
Jayaillike, K.N. Ninian Smart, ed. 1975. The Message of the Buddha. New York: The Free Press.
Pratt, James Bissett. 1928. The Pilgrimage of Buddhism. New York: Macmillian. (Huston Smith recommendation - "although written in the 1920s, (it) remains a comprehensive, readable account of this religion")
Robinson, Richard and Willard Johnson. 1997. The Buddhist Religion: A Historical Introduction. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing. (Huston Smith recommendation - "more recent and accessible")
Ruhula, Walpola. 1959. What the Buddha Taught. New York: Grove Press.
Zimmer, Heinrich. 1951. Philosophies of India. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Buddhist Studies - Sponsored by Rutgers University, Department of Religion
Buddhist Studies - Buddha Dharma Education Association
WWW Buddhist Links - Thomson's Online Religion Course Guide - Annotated
Symposium on Siddhartha - from Education About Asia volume 2 number 1 Spring 1997
Buddhism - Wikipedia (great place to start)
Bunnag, Jane. 1973. Buddhist Monk, Buddhist Layman. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Collins, Steven. 1982. Selfless Persona: Imagery and Thought in Theravada Buddhism. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
King, Winston. 1980. Theravada Meditation: Buddhist Transformation of Yoga. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press.
Ch'en, Kenneth. 1970. Buddhism in China: A Historical Survey. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
de Bary, William, ed. The Buddhist Tradition in China, Indian and Japan. New York: The Modern Library.
Ellwood, Robert and Richard Pilgrim. Japanese Religion: A Cultural Perspective. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Thompson, Laurence. 1975. Chinese Religion: An Introduction. 2nd edition. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing.
Welch, Holmes. 1967. The Practice of Chinese Buddhism 1900-1950. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
WWW Chinese Religions - Thomson's Online Religion Course Guide - Annotated
Evans-Wentz, W. Y. 2000. The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Or, the After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, According to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering, 4th edition Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Goodman, Steven and Ronald Davidson, ed. 1992. Tibetan Buddhism, Reason and Revelation. Albany, NY: Albany State University of New York.
Govinda, Lama Anagarika. 1969. Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism. Newe Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser. (Huston Smith recommendation - "presents theory of Tibetan Buddhism")
Johnson, Sandy. 1995. The Book of Tibetan Buddhism. San Francisco: Harper and Row.
Pallis, Marco. 1974. Peaks and Lamas. London: The Woburn Press. (Huston Smith recommendation - "one of the finest spiritual travelogues ever written")
Waddell, L. Austine. 1992. Tibetan Buddhism. Mineole, NY: Dover Publications, Inc.
Dumoulin, Heinrich. 1988. Zen Buddhism: A History. New York: Macmillan Publishing.
Earhart, H. Byron. 1982. Japanese Religion: Unity and Diversity. 3rd edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing.
Kapleau, Philip. 1989. The Three Pillars of Zen. New York: Anchor Books. (Huston Smith recommendation)
Statler, Oliver. 1983. Japanese Pilgrimage. New York: William Morrow and Company.
Suzuki, D.T. 1961. Essays in Zen Buddhism. New York: Grove Press.
------------- 1973. Zen and Japanese Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Tanaka, Sen’o. 1973. The Tea Ceremony. Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International Itd.
WWW Japanese Religions - Thomson's Online Religion Course Guide - Annotated
Blackney, R.B. 1955. The Way of Life: Lao Tzu. Mentor.
Kaltenmark, Max. 1969. Lao Tzu and Taoism. Stanford: Stanford University Press. (Huston Smith recommendation - "presents a good overview of the Taoist tradition as a whole")
Nan, Huai-Chin. Tao and Longevity: Mind-Body Transformation. York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, Inc.
Tao Te Ching. Numerous translations available. (Huston Smith recommends Stephen Mitchell's 1988 Harper and Row translation. While "no rendering of Taoism's primary text can be definitive," Mitchell's is "close to being definitive")
Merton, Thomas. 1965. The Way of Chuang Tzu. New York: New Directions. (Huston Smith recommendation - " presents the outlook of this engaging and important thinker admirably")
Thompson, Laurence. 1989. Chinese Religion: An Introduction. 2nd edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing. (Huston Smith recommendation - "provides a good overview of the religious dimensions of China generally")
Watson, Burton. 1964. Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings. New York: Columbia University Press. (Huston Smith recommendation)
Welch, Holms. 1957. Taoism: The Parting of the Way. New York: Beacon Press.
Welch, Holms, ed. 1979. Facets of Taoism. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Wong, Eva. 1997. Taoism. Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc.
East Asian Studies - Sponsored by Rutgers University, Department of Religion
Taoism Information Page - from the World Wide Web Virtual Library
Tao Te Ching - Taoism from the World Wide Web Virtual Library
WWW Taoism - Thomson's Online Religion Course Guide - Annotated
Taoism - Taoist Culture and Information Center
Taoism - Wikipedia (great place to start)
Taoism - Sanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Brockington, J.L. 1981. The Sacred Thread: Hinduism in Its Continuity and Diversity. New York: Columbia University Press.
Coomaraswamy, Ananda. 1969. Introduction to Indian Art. 2nd edition. Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal.
Embree, Ainslee, ed. 1961. The Hindu Tradition. New York: The Modern Library.
Hopkins, Thomas. 1971. The Hindu Religious Tradition. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing.
Huyler, Stephan. 1999. Meeting God: Elements of Hindu Devotion. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Kinsley, David. 1982. Hinduism: A Cultural Perspective. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. (Huston Smith recommendation - "provides a clear overview of Hinduism. It grounds it in its geographic setting, outlines its historical development, and calls attention to the tremendous variety this religion includes.")
Mitchell, George. 1978. Hindu Temple. New York: Harper and Row.
O'Flaherty, Wendy, ed. 1980. Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions. Berkley: University of California Press.
Radhakrishnan. 1973. The Hindu View of Life. New York: Macmillian.
The Song of God: Bhagavad Gita. numerous translations available. (Huston Smith recommends Barbara Stoler Miller's 1986 New York: Bantam Books translation as "eminently serviceable")
Younger, Paul. 1962. Introduction to Indian Religious Thought. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press.
Zaehner, R.C. 1962. Hinduism. New York: Oxford University Press.
Zimmer, Heinrich. 1951. Philosophies of India. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Huston Smith recommendation - "develop(s) at great length the philosophical and religious dimension of Hinduism")
The Ramakrishna Institute - Great site to get to the heart of Hinduism, from a practitioner's perspective. The Institute is rooted in the teachings of Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886) who stressed, among other things, the equal validity of all religions, the potential divinity of man, and service to man as a way of worshipping God.
Hindu Studies - Sponsored by Rutgers University, Department of Religion
WWW Hinduism - Thomson's Online Religion Course Guide - Annotated
Symposium on Siddhartha - from Education About Asia volume 2 number 1 Spring 1997
Temples of India - great source of information on the temples and the deities associated with them.
Music India Online - listen to the rich variety of the music of India, along with interviews of leading musicians and even reviews of current Indian movies and other entertainment news.
Hindu Gods and Goddesses - along with some great images, a good place to start understanding the various manifestations of the Divinity.
Balinese Concept of Time (PDF)
Hindu Gods and Goddesses (as covered in class)
Bollywood (just for fun)
Hinduism - Wikipedia (great place to start)
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
Alter, Stephan. 2001. Sacred Waters: A Pilgrimage up the Ganges River to the Source of Hindu Culture. Harcourt
Cousineau, Phil. 2000. The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to
Making Travel Sacred.
Conari Press
Johnson, Russell and Kerry Moran. 1999. Tibet's Sacred Mountain: The Extraordinary Pilgrimage to Mount KailasPark Street Press
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.
African Rites of Passage - referencing the work of Arnold van Gennep
African Funerals - from Ghana
Rites of Passage in Ohafia - from John McCall's "Rethinking Ancestors in Africa." Africa. 65(2) 1995: 256-270.
Symbols in African Ceremonies - on the work of Victor Turner
Rites of Passage - Wikipedia (great place to start)
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