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Автор: Eric Maroney
Год: 2011
Издание:
Книга по Требованию
Страниц: 222
ISBN: 9780334040187
The teacher who uses this book in a course... has a great opportunity here to bring history to life and to show nuances concerning religious stereotypes which are not based on historic fact --Tijdschrift voor Theologie, (Journal for Theology) 2008: 48, 117 The SCM Core Text Religious Syncretism provides a persuasive account of the principle that syncretism is an important and widespread expression of religious belief and practice. Each chapter concludes with a useful summary and questions that might be considered for seminar or class discussion.... there is much to commend the book. Those of us who work in education can be accustomed to think of religion in terms of creeds and doctrines and to teach the subject along those lines. Such an approach is to ignore the importance of syncretistic experience as a defining factor in religion. --Elliot Shaw, Senior Lecturer, Religious Education at St. Martin's College, in the journal World Religions in Education, XXVIII, 2007-8. Even a quick...
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