Cambridge University Press series
"The Introduction to Religion series covers a range of topics in the field of religious studies. Covering all major religious traditions and their sub-sects, volumes in the series offer comprehensive and authoritative examination of the topics, including historical development and insights into belief systems, theological issues, and ritual. Written in an engaging manner, the volumes are geared towards readers who have little or no background on a given topic. They are ideal for use as primary or supplementary texts in undergraduate courses."
An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics: Foundations, Values, & Issues by Call Number: UCF Main Library General Collection - 1st Floor -- BJ1289.H37 2000NOTE: Online access is limited to 1 simultaneous user
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The shared foundations of Buddhist ethics -- Key Buddhist values -- Mahāyāna emphases & adaptations -- Attitude to and treatment of the natural world -- Economic ethics -- War & peace -- Suicide & euthanasia -- Abortion & contraception -- Sexual equality -- Homosexuality & other forms of 'queerness'
An Introduction to Catholic Ethics since Vatican II by Call Number: UCF Main Library General Collection - 1st Floor -- BJ1248.K53 2015ch4ck availability of print version
Foundations of Catholic ethics -- Moral relativism -- The natural law and revelation -- The river between -- Grace at the heart of virtue -- The cardinal virtues -- The virtues of grace -- The unity of the virtues -- Catholic social teaching -- Justice in the Catholic moral tradition -- The principles of Catholic social teaching -- The just war tradition -- Bioethics -- The dignity of the human person -- Beginning of life decisions -- End of life decisions
An Introduction to Catholic Social Thought by Call Number: UCF ONLINE General Collection -- BX1793.H631 2006Part I - Social Reality & Social Analysis: Capitalism in a Global Context -- Part II - Theological Resources: The Kingdom of God -- Christian Citizenship -- Catholic Social Thought -- Part III - Justice Issues: Human Rights -- The Family -- Economic Life -- Social Exclusion -- Authentic Development -- War & Peace Part IV - Action Responses: Catholic Responses to Injusticies
An Introduction to Christianity by Call Number: UCF Main Library General Collection - 1st Floor -- BR148.W66 2004ch4ck availability of print version
pt. I. The Christian revolution : ascent to power. How Christianity came to power -- Churches of east & west in the early Middle Ages -- Christendom : the western church in power -- pt. II. The modern revolution : compromises with power. The Reformation in context -- Protestant pathways into the modern world -- Catholic & Orthodox negotiations with modernity -- Twentieth-century fortunes
An Introduction to Feng Shui by Call Number: UCF Main Library General Collection - 1st Floor -- BF1779.F4B79 2008ch4ck availability
A brief history of feng shui -- Feng shui in the context of Chinese popular religion -- Feng shui research -- Cosmological principles, schools of interpretation and the feng shui compass -- Feng shui in the Chinese cityscape: China proper and overseas -- Modern feng shui interpretations and uses -- Environmental concerns -- Feng shui as cultural globalization?
An Introduction to Islam by Call Number: UCF ONLINE General Collection -- BP161.2 .W29 2003Part 1 - Foundations -- "There is no god but Allah..." -- Tradition in the making -- Part 2 - Islamic Teaching & Practice -- Divine will & the law -- Theology: faith, justice & last things -- The way of the Sufi -- The way of the Imams -- Part 3 - Islam in the Modern World -- The heartlands & beyond -- Issues in contemporary Islam -- Excursus on Islamic origins
An Introduction to Judaism by Call Number: UCF ONLINE General Collection -- BM561.D378 2010The Jews in the World -- The Jewish People & Its Past -- Jewish Books -- The Jewish Religion -- The Family -- The Community -- God & the Jewish People -- Objectives -- Judaism & the Future
An Introduction to Mormonism by Call Number: UCF ONLINE General Collection -- BX 8635.3.D38 2003The birth & growth of Mormonism -- Prophets & texts -- Divine-human transformations -- Death, faith & eternity -- Organization & leaders -- Ethics, atonement & agency -- Priesthood, stake & family -- Temples & ritual -- Identity, opposition & expansion
An Introduction to Swaminarayan Hindu TheologyCall Number: UCF ONLINE General Collection -- BL1289.245.P37 2017Part I - Sources & Tools -- Revelation -- Reason, Praxis & Tradition -- Part II - Themes -- Parabrahman -- Aksarabrahman -- Jiva -- Isvara -- Maya -- Mukti
An Introduction to the Medieval Bible by Call Number: UCF Main Library General Collection - 1st Floor -- BS68.L54 2014ch4ck availability of print version
The Bible as book -- The medieval canon -- The text of the medieval Bible -- Medieval hermeneutics -- The commentary tradition -- The vernacular Bible -- The Bible in worship & preaching -- The Bible of the poor?
An Introduction to the Trinity by Call Number: UCF Main Library General Collection - 1st Floor -- BT109.M37 2011ch4ck availability
Introducing trinitarian theology -- The Trinity & its scriptural roots -- The doctrine of the Trinity : its emergence & development in the life of the Christian community -- Theology of the Trinity from Richard of St Victor to the Reformation -- The Trinity from Schleiermacher to the end of the twentieth century -- Contemporary trinitarian theology : problems & perspectives
An Introduction to the Unitarian & Universalist Traditions by Call Number: UCF Main Library General Collection - 1st Floor -- BX9841.3.G74 2011ch4ck availability
Beginnings -- Great Britain -- From relevation to reason: America 1630-1833 -- From reason to intuition to freedom: USA 1833-1894 -- A religion for one world -- Congregational polity -- Worship -- Sources of faith -- Science & ecology -- Architecture, art, & music -- Education & social justice -- Current issues, new directions
Shi'i Islam: An Introduction by Call Number: UCF Main Library General Collection - 1st Floor -- BP193.5.H25 2014ch4ck availability of print version
Part I. Theology: 1. 'Adl (rational divine justice); 2. Imāmate (legitimate leadership) -- Part II. Origins: 3. Community; 4. Fragmentation -- Part III. Constructing Shī'ism: 5. Zaydism in the balance between Sunnī & Shī'a; 6. The weight of Ismā'īlī expectations; 7. Twelver Shī'ism & the problem of the hidden imām -- Part IV. Shī'ism in the Modern World: 8. Zaydism at the crossroads; 9. (Nizārī) Ismī'īlism reconstituted; 10. The politicization of the Twelver Shī'a -- Conclusion: Sunnī-Shī'ī relations
