Concise Dictionary of Spirituality and World Religions
Maldini, Slobodan
Synopsis "Concise Dictionary of Spirituality and World Religions"
Concise Dictionary of Spirituality and World Religions is intended to help the subject of world religions and spiritu¬ality to become more accessible to the general public. It is also hoped that students of world religions, spiritual people and even profession¬als, religious peole, monks and believers of all religions, yoga teach¬ers, and practitioners will turn to it for helpful information. It does not have pretensions to complete¬ness, but it does provide a wide range of entries. While the scope of the book has been restricted to the Christi¬anity, Hin¬duism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam and other major religions and spiritual phenomena, aspect of the subject associated with Sikh¬ism, Jainism, Zen, Shinto, history of religions, theology, phi¬losophy and religions, spiritualist psychology, yoga, sufism, meditation, Pa¬ganism, spiritual social movements. Special attention is dedicated to the terms in the field of spiritualism, magic (paranormal), rituals, sym¬bols, actions, language, as a category separate from religion. In par¬ticular, influences of East religions on Western civilization are men¬tioned, although no attempt has been made to include the vast termi¬nology of religions of India, China, Japan that would itself fill volu¬mes. Apart from the books devoted to single religions, much infor¬mation has been extracted from more general sources: other diction¬aries and internet. Containing over 5.200 entries in the field of all the aspects of spritu¬ality, religions and human spirit achievements, this is the most com¬prehensive and up-to-date dictionary of spirituality in paperback. On 420 pages the book covers all aspects of human spiritality in all peri¬ods of history of civilizations, from East to West. It is an invaluable work of reference for the general reader and believers in all major re-ligions, from Hinduism to Christianity.
