Encyclopedia of American religions /
Companion to the 3 v. American religious creeds includes essay chapters and directory listings grouped by religious "families." Vol. 1(lx, 460 p.) covers, the "Western liturgical family" of Roman Catholic Church, Old Catholicism, Anglicanism, the Eastern liturgical family, Luther...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Detroit :
Gale Research,
©1993.
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| Edition: | 4th ed. |
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| Summary: | Companion to the 3 v. American religious creeds includes essay chapters and directory listings grouped by religious "families." Vol. 1(lx, 460 p.) covers, the "Western liturgical family" of Roman Catholic Church, Old Catholicism, Anglicanism, the Eastern liturgical family, Lutheran family, Reformed-Presbyterian family, Pietist-Methodist family, Holiness family, Pentecostal family, and European Free-church family. Vol. 2 (lx, 460 p.) covers the Baptist family, independent fundamentalist family, Adventist family, liberal family, Latter-day saints family, Communal family, Christian Science-metaphysical family, and Spiritualist, psychic, and New Age family. Vol. 3 (lx, 434 p.) includes the ancient Wisdom family, Magick family, Middle Eastern family (Judaism), Middle Eastern family (Islam, Zoroastrianism, Baha'i), and Eastern family (Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism) and Eastern family (Buddhism, Shintoism, Japanese new religions) |
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| Item Description: | "ISSN 1066-1212." |
| Physical Description: | xx, 1217 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 0810369044 9780810369047 0810328410 9780810328419 0800730259 9780800730253 0800730267 9780800730260 0800730275 9780800730277 |