What Do You Believe?
Publisher: DK Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9780756673765; 9780756672287; 9781405362856
Subjects: Faith; JUVENILE NONFICTION; Religion; Religions; History; Juvenile literature; General
Description: What do you believe? Do you know why you believe the way that you do? What Do You Believe? will introduce readers to the many religions of the world and its equally numerous philosophies, from some of the more widely known, such Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism, to lesser known religions, and from great ancient philosophers such as Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato, to the more modern Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Kant, and Sartre. The next in this series based on exploring and developing your own inquisitiveness, What Do You Believe? challenges the what, the how, and the why of some of the wo.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: 4; Why believe? 8; In earlier times 10; On to India 12; Meanwhile, in the Middle East 14; To Enlightenment and beyond 16; What is a religion? 20; Religion round-up 22; When, where, who, what? 24; What is Judaism about? 26; What is Christianity about? 28; What is Islam about? 30; What is Hinduism about? 32; What is Buddhism about? 34; What is Sikhism about? 36; Native religions 38; East Asian religions 40; New religious movements 42; Modern spirituality 44; What is atheism about? 46; The good books 50; What's the point of prayer? 52; What goes on in there? 54; Just do it! 56.; title: Festivals, feasts, and fasts 58Rites of passage 60; Why do you wear that? 62; Hair do's and don'ts 64; What are you eating? 66; Give it up! 68; Introducing philosophy of religion 72; What's it all about? 74; What is God? 76; They can't all be right! (Can they?) 78; If religions preach peace, why is everyone fighting? 80; Why do bad things happen to good people? 82; Religion and science 84; The moral maze 86; Is religion redundant? 88; Who's who? 90; Glossary 94.