Views of the Absolute in World Religions
Center for Media and Independent Learning - University of California Extension
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Required Texts
Smith, Huston. The World's Religions : A Completely Revised and Updated Edition of The Religions of Man. HarperSanFrancisco, 1991. This book gives a good introduction to the study of religion as the study of differing views of the Absolute and our relationship to/with it.
Novak, Philip, ed. The World's Wisdom: Sacred Texts of the World's Religions. HarperSanFrancisco, 1994. This book is a good companion piece to Smith's book. It contains many selections from primary texts, organized by subject.
Brown, Joseph Epes. The Spiritual Legacy of the American Indian. Crossroad, New York, 1992. This is an appreciation of Native American traditions from a particular point of view. It discusses certain themes that reveal the universal qualities of Native American spirituality.
Other Recommended Texts
These are other books releated to the traditions we are studying you will probably find intersting.
Daly, Mary, Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation (Boston: Beacon Press, 1985).
Nabokov, Peter, ed., Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian and White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492 1992 (New York: Penguin Books, 1991).
Smart, Ninian, and Richard B. Hecht, eds., Sacred Texts of the World: A Universal Anthology (New York: Macmillan, 1982).
Additional Bibliography
The following are books that were used as background in preparing this course. You might find some of them interesting to pursue on your own.
Brown, Dee, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (New York: H. Holt & Co., 1971).
Brown, Joseph Epes, and Elle Black, eds. The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989).
Churchill, Ward, Indians Are Us? Culture and Genocide in Native North America (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1994)
Crim, Keith, Perennial Dictionary of World Religions (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989).
Fiorenza, Elisabeth Schussler,In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins (New York: Crossroad, 1984).
Isherwood, Christopher, et al., "What Is Vedanta?" (Hollywood, CA: Vedanta Press, 1993).
Keating, Thomas, Open Mind, Open Heart (Amity, NY: Amity House, 1986).
Kung, Hans, ed., Christianity and the World Religions: Path to Dialogue with Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism (New York: Doubleday, 1986).
Merton, Thomas, The Way of Chuang Tzu (New York: New Directions, 1965).
Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, Ideals and Realities of Islam (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1989).
Neusner, Jacob, Our Religions (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1993).
Noss, John B., Man's Religions (New York: Macmillan, 1984).
Parrinder, Geoffrey, World Religions: From Ancient History to the Present (New York: Facts on File, 1984).
Rahula, Walpola, What the Buddha Taught (New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1987).
Ruether, Rosemary R., Gaia and God (HarperSanFrancisco, 1992).
----------. Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology (Boston: Beacon Press, 1984).
Sharma, Arvind, ed., Our Religions (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1993).
Thurman, Howard, Mysticism and the Experience of Love (Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill, 1961).
----------. With Head and Heart: The Story of Howard Thurman (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981).
Trible, Phyllis, God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality (Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Fortress, 1978).
Zaehner, Robert C., Hindu Scriptures (New York: Everyman's Library, 1966).
Zinn, Howard, A People's History of the United States (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1980).
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