BOOK AND ARTICLE SELECTIONS FOR RELI 10013

BOOK AND ARTICLE SELECTIONS FOR RELI 10023 (Fall 08)

1. "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema" by Horace Miner.

Found in Exploring Society: Selected Readings in Sociology. A. Sadnovik, C. Persell, E. Baumann, and R. Mitchell, eds. New York: Harper and Row, 1987.

Also on web: www.msu.edu/~jdowell/miner.html.

2. “Rethinking Critical Thinking: Values and Attitudes” by Richard A. Lynch. Can also be found at ctl.stanford.edu/Tomprof/postings/510.html.

3. “Where We Stand on Faith” and “Belief by the Numbers,” Newsweek, Aug. 29-Sept. 5, 2005.

4. From The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud. New York: Norton, 1971, pp. 15-20. Can also be found at http://www.adolphus.nl/xcrpts/xcfreudill.html (find pp. 15-20).

5. "Peering Past Faith to Glimpse the Jesus of History," The New York Times, 23 December, 1991. Can also be found at http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE4DA133FF930A15751C1A967958260.

6. "Scholar Sees 4 Perspectives on Jesus in Gospels," The New York Times, 27 March, 1994. Can also be found at http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03E1DE1F3CF934A15750C0A962958260.

7. Japanese Imperial Rescript on Education. Found in Sacred Texts of the World. Edited by Ninian Smart and Richard Hecht. New York: Crossroad Publishing Co., 1982.

Can also be found at http://www.danzan.com/HTML/ESSAYS/meiji.html.

8. The Pledge of Allegiance. For more on its history, see http://history.vineyard.net/pledge.htm.

9. Preamble to the United Nations Charter. Found in Sacred Texts of the World. N. Smart and R. Hecht, eds. Can also be found at http://www.un.org/aboutun/charter/preamble.htm.

10. "The Group and the Self," The New York Times, 12 December, 1990. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE3DD1330F936A15751C1A966958260.

11. “What Faith Is.” From The Dynamics of Faith by Paul Tillich. New York: Harper & Row, 1957. Pp. 1-4.

12. From The Way of the White Clouds by Lama Anagarika Govinda. London: Random House (UK), 1988. Pp. 185-87

13. “The Inner Ecstasy” by Marcus Bach. The World Publishing Co., 1969. Pp. 11-17.

14. “Radha and Krishna.” From In Praise of Krishna. Edward Dimock and D. Levertov, trans. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965. pp. 18, 21, 56-57, 69 from Univ. Of Chicago Press

15. From The Mystical Theology of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. The Classics of Western Spirituality. New York: Paulist Press, 1987. Pp. 140-41. Can also be found at http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/VolumeII/MysticalTheology.html, pp. 208-09.

16. From The Republic by Plato. Edited by G. R. F. Ferrari. Translated by Tom Griffith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 220-24. Can also be found at http://www.constitution.org/pla/repub_07.htm.

17. From How to Meditate by Kathleen McDonald. Boston: Wisdom, 1984. Pp. 13-6, 34-6, 44-6, 77-9

18. Genesis 1-3. The New Oxford Annotated Bible, NRSV. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. OT, pp. 2-5. Can also be found at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/genesis-rsv.html.

19.Rig Veda X. 90 and 129. Found in The Hindu Tradition. Ainslee Embree, ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1972. Pp. 25-7. Can also be found in

http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/056.html and 101.html

20.“Origins of the Universe,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 December 1995.

21. “In Tune With Strings. ” Found in TIAA-CREF Advance magazine, Winter 2006, p. 30.

22. From “Theodicy: Encountering Evil.” Found in Anatomy of the Sacred: An Introduction to Religion by James C. Livingston. 3rd Edition. Saddle River, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1998. Pp. 275-76, 289-300

23. “The Object of Perfect Wisdom.” From Selected Sayings from the Perfection of Wisdom. E. Conze, ed. and trans. London: The Buddhist Society, 1955. Pp. 74-5. Can also be found at http://www.dzogchen.org/chant/heartsutra.htm.

24.“Women.” From The Koran Interpreted, vol. 1. Arthur Arberry, trans. London: Unwin Hyman Ltd., 1955. Pp. 100-1, 105-6. The full surah can be found at http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/QURAN/4.htm.

25. New Society Outlook (free) and reading from Basic Writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Anton Pegis, ed. New York: Random House, 1954. Pp. 879-90. Can also be found at http://www.ccel.org/a/aquinas/summa/FP/FP092.html.

26. “The Status of Women.” From the Laws of Manu. Found in The Range of Religion. Denise and John Carmody, eds. New York: Macmillan, 1992. Pp. 269-71.

27. Matthew 5-7 (Sermon on the Mount). The New Oxford Annotated Bible, NRSV. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. NT, pp. 6-10. Can also be found at http://www.bible-reading.com/cgi-bin/daily-reading.cgi/RSV-20-Quiet

28. From An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham. 1789. Can also be found at http://www.constitution.org/jb/pml.htm (chapters 1 and 4)

29. The Passover (Exodus 12). Found in Sacred Texts of the World. Edited by Ninian Smart and Richard Hecht. New York: Crossroad Publishing Co., 1982. Pp. 69-70. Can also be found at http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/exodus/exodus12.htm.

30. From The Book of Common Prayer (Episcopal Church). New York: Seabury Press, 1977. Church Hymnal Corp. Pp. 326-7, 333-8. Can also be found at http://www.bcponline.org/, go to “The Holy Eucharist: Rite One.”

31. “Religion Gets Supersized at Megachurches,” Fox News Channel, 3 February 2004 Can also be found at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,110240,00.html.

32. From The Precarious Vision by Peter Berger. New York: Doubleday and Co., 1961.

Pp. 105-07, 109-17

33. “Frequently Asked Questions” and “Principles.” The Hunger Project. Can also be found at www.thp.org/faq.html and http://www.thp.org/overview/principles.html.

34. “A Day in the Life of a Woman Farmer.” The Hunger Project newsletter June 2006. Can also be found at http://www.thp.org/awffi/awffi_brochure/bro_07.html.

35. "Living Your Vision" by David Gershon and Gail Straub. Lotus (Spring, 1993): 58-63.

Can also be found at http://www.personaltransformation.com/PDFs/Issue7.pdf, pp. 58-63.

36. “Oprah’s Ugly Secret’ by Peter Birkenhead. Can be found at http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/03/05/the_secret/print.html.

37. From Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis. New York: Macmillan, 1952. Pp. 166-68, 174-75.

38. “Show Me the Science,” The New York Times, 28 August, 2005. Can also be found at http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dennett05/dennett05_index.html.

39. “A Genetic Future Both Tantalizing and Disturbing,” The New York Times, 1 January, 2000. Can also be found at http://www.nytimes.com/specials/010100mil-gene-stolberg.html.

40. "Four Indicators of Humanhood--the Enquiry Matures" by Joseph Fletcher.

Found in On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives in Medical Ethics. S. Lammers and A. Verhey, eds. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1987. Pp. 275-77.

Originally from The Hastings Report 4 (December, 1975), 4-7. Can also be found at http://www.jstor.org/stable/3560587.

41. “A Direct Line to God in an Impersonal Era,” The New York Times, 1 January, 2000. Can also be found at http://www.nytimes.com/specials/010100mil-identity-pent.html.

42. Selections from the Veda. Found in The Hindu Tradition. Ainslee Embree, ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1972. Pp. 17-27. The Rig Veda can also be found at http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rvi01.htm.

43. Selections from the Upanisads. Found in The Hindu Tradition. Pp. 52-63. Selected Upanisads can also be found at http://www.naiveinspirations.com/introduction.

44. Selections about caste and lifestage. Found in The Hindu Tradition. Pp. 80-93. The Laws of Manu can be found at http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/manu.htm.

45. Selections from the Bhagavad Gita. Found in The Hindu Tradition. Pp. 120-30. The complete Gita in Sanskrit and English can be found at http://www.bhagavad-gita.org/index-english.html.

46. Modern Indian Religious Thinkers. Found in The Hindu Tradition. Pp. 282-84, 307-9, 313-21.

47. From An Autobiography by Mohandas K. Gandhi. Boston: Beacon Press, 1957. Pp. xxv-xxix, 135-38. Text can be found at http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=98066138 (possibly only on campus through the TCU library).