Taxonomy of Faiths: A semantic journey
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Taxonomy of Faiths: A semantic journey**
Sample maps
- The Practical and Ritual Dimension
- The Experiential and Emotional Dimension
- The Narrative or Mythic Dimension
- The Doctrinal and Philosophical Dimension
- The Ethical and Legal Dimension
- The Social and Institutional Dimension
- The Material Dimension
[source: The World's Religions: Seven Dimensions of Religions, Extract by Ninian Smart, University of California, www.uwec.edu/greider/WorldReligions/world2k.Ninian.Smart.htm]
Abraham and his Sons
Basic Beliefs of Christians and Muslims
side by side
Belief in
God
What Christians Believe
God is three gods merged into one God. This one God is called a Trinity. However, to say that God is three is a blasphemy of the highest order. All three parts of the Trinity are "coequal" "co-eternal" and "the same substance." For this reason, this doctrine is described as "a mystery."
What Muslims Believe
God is one God in the most basic, simple, and elementary meaning of the word. He has no children, no parents nor any equal. In Islam God is known by the name "Allah" and more than 99 other venerated names, such as "the Merciful," "the Gracious
http://www.islam101.com/religions/christianity/christ_islam.html
1. Instrumental ("I want..."): petitionary prayers to obtain goods and services for individual and social needs.
2. Regulatory ("Do as I tell you..."): prayers to control the activity of God, to command God to order people and things about on behalf of the one praying.(15)
3. Interactional ("me and you..."): prayer to maintain emotional ties with God; prayer of simple presence.
4. Self-focused ("Here I come. . .; here I am..."): prayers that identify the self -- individual and social -- to God; prayers of contrition and humility, as well as boasting and superiority.
5. Heuristic ("Tell me why...?"): prayer that explores the world of God and God's workings within us individually and collectively; meditative prayers, perceptions of the spirit in prayer.
6. Imaginative ("Let's pretend..."): prayer to create an environment of one's own with God; prayers in tongues and those recited in languages unknown to the pray-er.
7. Informative ("I have something to tell you"): prayers that communicate new information: prayers of acknowledgment, praise and thanksgiving.(16)
Prayer, In Other Words:: New Testament Prayers in Social-Science Perspective, Jerome H. Neyrey
University of Notre Dame,
http://web.archive.org/web/20030925015925/http://www.crossandflame.com/abraham.htm
Figure 1.
A Map of the World's Religions
1. Personal God
2. Singularist
3. Universalist
4. Personal Soul
5. Eternal Life
1. Not God
2. Pluralist
3. Particularist
4. No Soul
5. Nibbana
Occidental Religions
Kitab - The Book (OT)
Oriental Religions
Teachings of the Buddha
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
Hindu-
ism
Pure
Amalgamated
Protestant
Orothodox
Sunni
Shia
North
Tantric
Lamaism
South
Hinayana
Theravada
East
Mahayana
Chinese
Daoism
Confucian-
ism
Buddhism
Japanese
Shintoism
Confucian-
ism
Buddhism
Catholic
http://www.crosscurrents.org/galtung.htm
Bibliography:
- Islam and Christianity - Similarities and Differences
- [A chart comparing the similarities and differences between Islam and Christianity]
- muslim-canada.org/islam_christianity.html
- Values Memory, Global Ethic and Civil Crisis Management, Reijo E. Heinonen
The German Islamic scholar Anne-Marie Shimmel has discussed the dialogical power of mystical experiences. She has noticed that those who have a deep and intense commitment to their religion are often open minded about the conviction of others. Such experiences are not universally common. This open-mindedness corresponds to existential communication in Jaspers' terms. In the development of stages of faith in Fowler's taxonomy, it is the sixth -universal / mystical -way to understand religions and cultures [p.91][see the full version of this taxonomy of faith: Stages of Faith : The Psychology of Human Development, J. W. Fowler (1995)]
- Influence of Zarathushtrian faith on the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
- Annotated Bibliography : Similarities & Differences Between Early Judaism, Christianity, & Islam: An Historical Perspective
- Three Gates to Meditation Practice: A Personal Journey into Sufism, Buddhism, and Judaism by David A. Cooper, Jewish Lights Pub Skylight Paths Pub
- Sin and Salvation in the World Religions : A Short Introduction by Harold Coward
- Life After Death: A Study of the Afterlife in World Religions by Farnaz Masumian
- A Sharing of Diversities: Proceedings of the Jewish Mennonite Ukrainian Conference, ""Building Bridges
- Oneness : Great Principles Shared by All Religions by JEFFREY MOSES
- From The Black Churches : A Historiographic Taxonomy Of Religions In Jamaica Book One
- by E. S. P. McPherson
- Chapter Outline
- Tylor first studied religion anthropologically and developed a taxonomy of religions.
- 2. Animism was seen as the most primitive and is defined as a belief ...
- highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072832258/ student_view0/chapter13/chapter_outline.html
- [PDF] COMPARATIVE RELIGION, TAXONOMIES AND 19TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHIES OF ...
- File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
- and his taxonomy of religions. It is easy to specify the oppositions ...
- his taxonomy of religions. Tiele’s distinction between the morphological and the ...
- www.kluweronline.com/article. asp? PIPS=brill_00295973_v48n3_s6&PDF=1
- Classification
- ... left out altogether. A taxonomy (classification) of religions. A more useful
- classification system might be that below. The great ...
- www.gyc.tas.edu.au/openit/ many_faiths/many_faiths/persp_class.htm
- Religious Education - Taxonomy of Atheism
- Religious Forums.com you can find religious discussions, religious comparisons,
- religious debates, religious education in our Religious Chat.
- www.religiousforums.com/ forum/archive/index.php/t-13586.html
- [PDF] Are Inclusivists Paul Reveres or Benedict Arnolds
- File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
- The taxonomy used to describe the major views within the theology of religions of.
- exclusivism, inclusivism, and pluralism will be utilized in this paper in ...
- baptistcenter.com/Journal%20Articles/ Spr%202004/08%20Corporate%20Inclucivism.pdf
- AAR Abstracts
- The academic taxonomy between "new" and "ethnic" religions belies the structural
- similarities between the two (as politically minority groups), ...
- www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/ 2002/pbook/abstract.asp?ANum=A109
- Vanda Broughton. “A New Classification for the Literature of Religion. 66 IFLA Council and General Conference, Jerusalem , Israel , 13-18 August, 2000.
- National Center for Charitable Statistics. “NCCS--National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities – Core Codes – Definitions: Religion.” (12 Jan 2004);
- Polis Denominational Taxonomy. “Denomination Taxonomy: 1990 Denominations as Listed by Glen mary Research Center.” (12 Jan 2004);
- Anton Karl Kozlovic. “Seven Logical Consequences of Interreligious Dialoguing: A Taxonomy of Praxis Possibilities.” Marburg Journal of Religion, 8 (1) Sept 2003, 1-24 (12 Jan 2004).
- A Taxonomy of Religions, John Futterman
- Give me that Old Time Religion (Tax onomy of the Gods ) http://www.homestead.com/flowstate/files/zreligion.ht m
- Prayer, In Other Words: New Testament Prayers in Social-Science Perspective, Jerome H. Neyrey, (includes a PrayerTaxonomy)
- Comparison of God-Centered and Man-Centered Worship
- Grief And Loss: A Primer For School Counselors [see the categories and sub-categories]
- Principles and Procedures of Category Development
- A Reappraisal of Typologies of New Religious Movements and Characteristics of the Unification Church, Yoshihiko Masuda
- Religion: Heuristic Resources for Inquiry and Dialogue, By Robert Merikangas
- A Santhal Myth: Five Elements, Kanak Mital
- On the Figure Five
- The Wheel of Religions
- The taxonomy of religions -- ideas and principles of classification; The "science
- of religion" -- how can we apply scientific methods to the interpretion of ...
- wheelofreligions.net/ -
- Google for more
- See also, my selections at Amazon
**A taxonomy is a controlled vocabulary of terms and or phrases. more...
last updated 09/19/2006