HMLS Religion and Philosophy - Readings and Links

RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY: READINGS AND LINKS

BURLEIGH, Michael: 2007. Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the French Revolution to the Great War. New York, NY: Harper Perrenial/HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN-13 9780060580940 (paperback).; 2007. Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War on Terror. New York, NY: Harper Perrenial/HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN-13 9780060580964 (paperback).
LOSCH, Richard R.: 2001. The Many Faces of Faith: A Guide to the Worlds Religion's and Christian Tradition. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. ISBN-13 9780802805218 (paperback).
THE METAPHYSICS RESEARCH LAB: 2018 (21 June). "Table of Contents." The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) (Summer 2018 Edition: SEP ISSN 1095-5054). Edited by Edward N. Zalta. The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University. https://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html.
PARRINDER, [Edward] Geoffrey, Editor: 1985. World Religions: From Ancient History to the Present. Revised and updated edition of Religions of the World (1971). New York, NY: Facts On File, Inc. ISBN-13 9780816012893 (paperback).
SMART, Ninian, Editor: 2000. Atlas of the World's Religions. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN-13 9780198662358 (hardcover).
STERN, Jessica: 2004. Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill. New York, NY: ECCO/HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. ISBN-13 9780060505332 (paperback).

Web Sites

Note: The BBC page is archived and has not been updated for at least five years.

Internet Sacred Text Archive (ISTA). ISTA, Evinity Publishing, Inc. 2011.

Religions. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 2014.

Ancient Religions

ARMSTRONG, Karen: 2006. The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions. A Borzoi Book. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN-13 9780375413179 (hardcover).
BLACK, Jeremy, and Anthony GREEN: 2003. Gods, Demon and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. ISBN-13 9780292707948 (paperback).
DAVIDSON, H[ilda] R[oderick] Ellis: 1998. Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandanavian and Celtic Religions. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. ISBN-13 9780813624417 (paperback).
GREEN, Miranda: 2011. The Gods of the Celts. Stroud, UK: The History Press. ISBN-13 9780750934794 (paperback).
HARVEY, Graham: 2006. Animism: Respecting the Living World. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. ISBN-13 9780231137010 (paperback).
JOHNSON, Sarah Iles, General Editor: 2007. Ancient Religions. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN-13 9780674025486 (paperback).
NIDITCH, Susan: 1997. Ancient Israelite Religion. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN-13 9780195091274 (hardcover).

Web Sites

Mithraism. ReligionFacts. 7 March 2017.

Buddhism

HANH, Thich Nhat: 1999. The Heart of Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation: The Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, and Other Basic Buddhist Teachings. Translated by Sister Annabel Laity. New York, NY: Broadway Books. ISBN-13 9780767903691 (paperback).

Web Sites

Note: The BBC pages are archived and have not been updated for at least five years.

Religions: Buddhism. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 2014.

Religions: Korean Zen (Son) Buddhism. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 2 October 2002.

Religions: Mahayana Buddhism. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 2 October 2002.

Religions: Nichiren Buddhism. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 13 July 2005.

Religions: Pure Land [Amitabha] Buddhism. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 2 October 2002.

Religions: Therevada Buddhism. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 2 October 2002.

Religions: Tibetan Buddhism. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 14 January 2004.

Religions: Zen Buddhism. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 2 October 2002.

Christianity

FREEMAN, Charles: 2008. A.D. 381: Heretics, Pagans, and the Dawn of the Monotheistic State. New York, NY: The Overlook Press/Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc.. ISBN-13 9781590202876 (paperback).; 2011. The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason. New York, NY: Intage Books/Random House, Inc. ISBN-13 9781400033805 (paperback).
GREEN, Vivian: 2000. A New History of Christianity. New York, NY: The Continuum Publishing Company. ISBN-13 9780826412270 (paperback).
GRUDEM, Wayne: 2018. Christian Ethics: An Introduction to Biblical Moral Reasoning. Wheaton, IL: Crossway/Good News Publishers, 2018. ISBN-13 9781433549656 (hardcover).
McGRATH, Alister E.: 2006. Christianity: An Introduction. Second Edition. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN-13 9781444335149 (paperback).; 2011. Christian Theology: An Introduction. Fifth Edition. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN-13 9781405108997 (paperback).
MULLINS, Edward: 2006. Cluny: In Search of God's Lost Empire. New York, NY: BlueBridge/United Tribes Media, Inc. ISBN-13 9781933346175 (paperback).

Web Sites

Note: The BBC page is archived and has not been updated for at least five years.

Religions: Christianity. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 2014.

"Who Are the Iraqi Christians?". Iraqi Christian Human Rights Council. 2018.

Ethics

BAGGINI, Julian, and Peter S. FOSL: 2007. The Ethics Toolkit: A Compendium of Ethical Concepts and Methods. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN-13 9781405132312 (paperback).
BOONE, Brian: 2017. Ethics 101: From Altruism and Utilitarianism to Bioethics and Political Ethics, an Exploration of the Concepts of Right and Wrong. Adams 101. Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2017. ISBN-13 9781507204931 (hardcover).
FIESER, James: 2017 (10 May 2009). "Ethics." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP): A Peer-Reviewed Academic Resource (ISSN 2161-0002). Edited by James Fieser and Bradley Dowden. [Available online at https://www.iep.utm.edu/ethics/.]
JOHNSON, Oliver A., and Andrews REATH: 2012. Ethics: Selections from Classical and Contemporary Writers. Eleventh Edition. Boston, MA: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning. ISBN-13 9780538452823(paperback).
KIZZA, Joseph Migga: 2017. Ethic and Social Issues in the Information Age. Sixth Edition. Texts in Computer Science. Cham, CH: Springer International Publishing AG. ISBN-13 9783319707112 (hardcover).
LEVY, David: 2008. Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships. New York, NY: Harper Perennial/HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN-13 9780061359804 (paperback).
LUCAS. George: 2016. Military Ethics. What Everyone Needs to Know. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN-13 9780199336883(paperback).
REYNOLDS, George W.: 2019. Ethics in Information Technology. Sixth Edition. Boston, MA: Course Technology/Cengage Learning. ISBN-13 9781337405874 (paperback).
SINGER, Peter: 2017. Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things that Matter. Revised Edition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN-13 978-0691178479 (paperback).
SPINELLO, Richard: 2017. Cyberethics: Morality and Law in Cyberspace. Sixth Edition. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning. ISBN-13 9781284081398 (paperback).
TAVANI, Herman T.: 2016. Ethics and Technology: Controversies, Questions, and Strategies for Ethical Computing. Fifth Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN-13 9781119355311 (paperback).
THOMPSON, Mel: 2010. Understand Ethics: Teach Yourself. Fourth Edition. New York, NY: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. ISBN-13 9780071747615 (paperback).
VAUGHN, Lewis: 2018. Doing Ethics: Moral Reasoning and Contemporary Issues. Fifth Edition. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN-13 9780393640267 (paperback).
WESTON, Anthony: 2017. A 21st Century Ethical Toolbox. Fourth Edition. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, Inc. ISBN-13 9780190621155 (paperback).

Web Sites

Note: The BBC page is archived and has not been updated for at least five years.

Ethics guide. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 2014.

Ethics Resource Center (ERC). Ethics Resource Center. 2019.

Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Santa Clara University. 2019.

Hinduism

ANONYMOUS: 2004 (1973). Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit. Edited and translated from Sanskrit by Wendy Doniger. Penguin Classics. New York, NY: The Penguin Press/Penguin Group (USA) Inc. ISBN-13 9780140449907 (paperback).

Web Sites

Note: The BBC page is archived and has not been updated for at least five years.

The Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (OCHS). OCHS, University of Oxford. No date.

Religions: Hinduism. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 2014.

Hinduism Today. Himalayan Academy. 2019.

Human Rights

FARMER, Paul: 2005. Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. California Series in Public Anthropology. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN-13 9780520243262 (paperback).
FASULO, Linda: 2005. An Insider's Guide to the UN. Third Edition. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015. ISBN-13 9780300203653 (paperback).
NORMAND, Roger, and Sarah ZAIDI: 2008. Human Rights at the UN: The Political History of Universal Justice. United Nations Intellectual History Project Series. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ISBN-13 9780253219343 (paperback).

Web Sites

Protect Human Rights. United Nations (UN). No date.

International Court of Justice (ICJ). United Nations (UN). No date.

Oceans and Law of the Sea. Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, United Nations (UN). No date.

UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), United Nations (UN). 2019.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). (Originally named The United Nations International Children's Emergengy Fund.) United Nations (UN). No date.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (10 December 1948). United Nations (UN). No date.

Islam

ALKHATEEB, Firas: 2014. Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilization from the Past. London, UK: C. Hurst & Company (Publishers), Ltd. ISBN-13 9781849043977 (paperback).
ALLEN, Charles: 2007. God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press/Perseus Books Group. ISBN-13 9780306815706 (paperback).
ARMSTRONG, Karen: 2002. Islam: A Short History. London, UK: Phoenix Press/The Orion Publishing Group, Ltd. ISBN-13 9781842125830 (paperback).
ESPOSITO, John L., and Natana J. DELONG-BAS: 2007. Shariah. What Everyone Needs to Know. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN-13 9780199325061 (paperback).
LEWIS, Bernard: 1991. The Political Language of Islam. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN-13 9780226476933 (paperback).
NASR, [Seyyed] Vali [Reza]: 2007. The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN-13 9780393329681 (paperback).
ROGERSON, Barnaby: 2008. The Heirs of Muhammad: Islam's First Century and the Origins of the Sunni-Shia Split. New York, NY: The Overlook Press/Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc. ISBN-13 9781590200223 (paperback).

Web Sites

Note: The BBC pages are archived and have not been updated for at least five years.

Al Islam: The Official Website of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. 2019.

International Association of Sufism (IAS). IAS, a United Nations (UN) nongovernmental organization (NGO). No date.

Religions: Islam. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 2014.

Religions: Sufism. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 8 September 2009.

Religions: Sunni and Shi'a. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 19 August 2009.

Judaism

BRUEGGEMANN, Walter: 2001. The Prophetic Imagination. Second Edition. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press/Augsburg Fortress. ISBN-13 9780800632878 (paperback).
HESCHEL, Abraham J.: 2001 [1962]. The Prophets. New York, NY: Harper Perennial Modern Classics/HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. ISBN-13 9780060936990 (paperback).
WIESEL, Ellie: 2001. The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, and The Accident. Night translated by Stella Rodway; Dawn translated by Frances Frenaye; and The Accident translated by Anne Borchardt. (Night originally published in French in 1958 by Les Éditions de Minuit. Dawn originally published in French in 1960 by Éditions du Seuil. The Accident originally published in French in 1961 by Éditions du Seuil.) New York, NY: Hill and Wang/Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN-13 9780374521400 (paperback).

Web Sites

Note: The BBC page is archived and has not been updated for at least five years.

Jewish Virtual Library (JVL). The American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE). 2019.

Religions: Judaism. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 2014.

Paganism

This section covers contemporary expressions of Pagan beliefs. See the section on Ancient Religions for information about the original "pagan" religions.

ALBANESE, Catherine L.: 1991. Nature Religion in America: From the Algonkian Indians to the New Age. Chicago History of American Religion. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. ISBN-13 9780226011462 (paperback).; 2002. Reconsidering Nature Religion. Rockwell Lecture Series. Philadelphia, PA: Trinity Press International, Inc. ISBN-13 9781563383762 (paperback).
BERGER, Helen A., Evan A. LEACH, and Leigh S. SHAFFER.: 2003. Voices from the Pagan Census: A National Survey of Witches and Neo-Pagans in the United States. Studies in Comparative Religion. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN-13 9781570034886 (hardcover).
BLAIN, Jenny, Douglas EZZY, and Graham HARVEY, Editors: 2004. Researching Paganisms. The Pagan Studies Series. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press. ISBN-13 9780759105232 (paperback).
COWAN, Douglas E.: 2004. Cyberhenge: Modern Pagans on the Internet. New York, NY: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN-13 9780415969116 (paperback).
CUHULAIN, Kerr: 2011. Pagan Religions: A Handbook for Diversity Training (Shamanism, Paganism, Druidry). Fourth Edition. Revised and updated version of The Law Enforcement Guide to Wicca (1989-1997). Portland, OR: Acorn Guild Press. ISBN-13 9780971005068 (paperback).
DAVY, Barbara Jane: 2006. Introduction to Pagan Studies. Annotated Edition. The Pagan Studies Series. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press. ISBN-13 9780759108196 (paperback).
GREENFIELD, Trevor, Editor: 2018. What Is Shamanism? Shaman Pathways. Alresford, Hampshire, UK: Moon Books/John Hunt Publishing Ltd. ISBN-13 9781785358029 (paperback).
HIGGINBOTHAM, Joyce, and River HIGGINBOTHAM: 2002. Paganism: An Introduction to Earth Year. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications/Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. ISBN-13 9780738702223 (paperback).
JENNINGS, Pete: 2002. Pagan Paths: A Guide to Wicca, Druidry, Asatru, Shamanism, and Other Pagan Practices. London, UK: Rider Books/Ebury Press/Random House UK. ISBN-13 9780712611060 (paperback).
TELESCO, Patricia, Editor and Compiler: 2005. Which Witch Is Which? A Concise Guide to Wiccan and Neo-Pagan Paths and Traditions. Franklin Lakes, NJ: The Career Press, Inc./New Page Books. ISBN-13 9781564147547 (paperback).
YORK, Michael: 2005. Pagan Theology: Paganism as a World Religion. New York, NY: New York University Press. ISBN-13 9780814797082 (paperback).

Web Sites

Note: The BBC pages are archived and have not been updated for at least five years.

Internet Sacred Text Archive (ISTA). ISTA, Evinity Publishing, Inc. 2011.

Religions: Paganism. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 2014.

Religions: Wicca. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 2 October 2002.

The Witches' Voice (TWV). The Witches' Voice Inc. 2019 (Updated weekly).

The Witches' Voice Presents... Pagan Traditions... An Overview of Belief Systems. The Witches' Voice Inc. 2019.

Other Religions

BOYCE, Mary, Editor: 1984. Textual Sources for the Study of Zoroastrianism. Translated by Mary Boyce. Textual Sources for the Study of Religion. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. ISBN-13 9780226069303 (paperback).
FERNÁNDEZ OLMOS, Margarite, and Lizabeth PARAVISINI-GEBERT: 2003. Creole Religions of the Caribbean: An Introducton from Vodou and Santería to Obeah and Espiritismo. Religion, Race, and Ethnicity. New York, NY: New York University Press. ISBN-13 9780814727201 (paperback).
KASULIS, Thomas P.: 2004. Shinto: The Way Home. Dimensions of Asian Spirituality. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN-13 9780824828509 (paperback).
KRIWACZEK, Paul: 2004. In Search of Zarathustra: Across Iran and Central Asia to Find the World's First Prophet. Vintage Departures. New York, NY: Vintage Books/Random House, Inc. ISBN-13 9781400031429 (paperback).

Web Sites

Note: The BBC pages are archived and have not been updated for at least five years.

Religions: Bahá'i. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 2014.

Religions: Candomblé. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 2014.

Falun Gong. ReligionFacts. 28 October 2016.

Religions: Jainism. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 2014.

Religions: Rastafari. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 2014.

Religions: Santeria. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 2014.

Religions: Shinto. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 2014.

Religions: Sikhism. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 2014.

Religions: Taoism. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 2014.

Asher-Schapiro, Avi. "Who Are the Yazidis, the Ancient, Persecuted Religious Minority Struggling to Survive in Iraq?". National Geographic News. National Geographic Partners, LLC, 11 August 2014. Web. 29 January 2019.

Religions: Zoroastrianism. British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 2014.

SPECIAL TOPIC: THE CRUSADES

ARMSTRONG, Karen: 2001. Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World. Second Anchor Books Edition. New York, NY: Anchor Books/Random House, Inc. ISBN-13 9780385721400 (paperback).
BARBER, Malcolm: 1995. The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple. Cambridge, UK: Canto/Cambridge University Press. ISBN-13 9780521558723 (paperback).; 1993. The Trial of the Templars. Cambridge, UK: Canto/Cambridge University Press. ISBN-13 9780521457270 (paperback).
FOSS, Michael: 2011 [1997]. People of the First Crusade: The Truth About the Christian-Muslim War Revealed. New York, NY: Arcade Publishing/Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. ISBN-13 9781611453294 (paperback).
GABRIELI, Francesco, Editor and Translator: 1993 [1969]. Arab Historians of the Crusades. Translated from the Italian by E.J. Costello. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble Books. ISBN-13 9780880294522 (hardcover).
RUNCIMAN, Steven: 1992. The First Crusade. Cambridge, UK: Canto/Cambridge University Press. ISBN-13 9780521427050 (paperback).
WASSERMAN, James: 2001. The Templars and the Assassins: The Militia of Heaven. Includes Saint Bernard of Clairvaux's In Praise of the New Knighthood, (translated by Lisa Coffin). Rochester, VT: Destiny Books/Inner Traditions International. ISBN-13 9780892818594 (paperback).

Web Sites

Selected Sources: The Crusades. Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Paul Halsall, Editor). Fordham University. 21 March 2007.

SPECIAL TOPIC: THE DEVIL

RUSSELL, Jeffrey Burton: 1987. The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Paperbacks/Cornell University Press. ISBN-13 9780801494093 (paperback).; 1986. Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Paperbacks/Cornell University Press. ISBN-13 9780801494291 (paperback).; 1990. Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Paperbacks/Cornell University Press. ISBN-13 9780801497186 (paperback).; 1987. Satan: The Early Christian Tradition. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Paperbacks/Cornell University Press. ISBN-13 9780801494130 (paperback).
TYSON, Donald: 2011. The Demonology of King James: Includes the Original Text of Daemonologie and News from Scotland. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications. ISBN-13 9780738723457 (paperback).

Web Sites

Christianty: Beliefs: Demons in Christianity. ReligionFacts. 20 January 2017.

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