Religious foundations of Western civilization
Subtitle: Judaism, Christianity, Islam
By: Jacob Neusner, editor.
Contributors: Neusner, Jacob, 1932-
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Nashville, TN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 686
Subjects: Civilization, Western.; Christianity.; Judaism.; Islam.; Western countries -- Religion.
Description: [This book] introduces students to the major Western world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - their beliefs, key concepts, history, as well as the fundamental role they have played, and continue to play, in Western culture.-Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What do we mean by "Western civilization"? / William Scott Green; title: How religion is a foundation of Western civilization / William Scott Green; title: Judaism / Jacob Neusner; title: Christianity : what it is and how it defines Western civilization / Bruce Chilton; title: Islam : what it is and how it defines Western civilization / Th. Emil Homerin; title: Religion, politics, culture, law, and society; title: Judaism / Alan J. Avery-Peck; title: Christianity / Bruce Chilton; title: Islam / Th. Emil Homerin; title: Philosophy : Averroes, Maimonides, and Aquinas / Seymour Feldman; title: Mysticism as a meeting ground : seeing the unseen / Elliot R. Wolfson; title: Latin Christianity, the crusades, and the Islamic response / James A. Brundage; title: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in Spain from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries / Olivia Remie Constable; title: Christianity and Islam in the Balkans from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries / Amila Buturovic; title: Zionism, imperialism, and nationalism; title: Zionism / Jacob Neusner; title: Christian imperialism / Bruce Chilton; title: Political Islam / Th. Emil Homerin; title: The modernization of Christianity / Bruce Chilton; title: The modernization of Judaism / Jacob Neusner; title: The modernization of Islam / Th. Emil Homerin; title: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in their contemporary encounters; title: Judaism addresses Christianity / Jon D. Levenson; title: Christianity meets other religions / Bruce Chilton; title: Islam and Pluralism / Th. Emil Homerin; title: Timeline / compiled by Cory Berry-Whitlock.