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Title: The Nature of Religion


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The Nature of Religion
  • by Alan F. Segal and Willard G. Oxtoby

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The Nature of the Divine
  • Monotheism and Polytheism
  • Dualism
  • Zoroastrianism
  • Gnosticism
  • Manichaeism

3
Missionary Religions
  • Missionary Religions
  • Missionary Expansion
  • Pluralism
  • Responding to Difference
  • Defining Religion
  • Religion in the West
  • The Roster of Religions
  • Defining by Exclusion
  • A Provisional Definition

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  • Some Twentieth-Century Analyses
  • The Role of the Participant
  • The Perspective of the Observer
  • Religious Theories of Religion
  • Similarities and Differences
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