Methods 

• What is religion? Thoughts of Mohandas Gandhi
• Defining religion: Text of a PowerPoint presentation
• Problems of comparing religions
• World religions in dialogue -- 1893
• The evolution of the concept of God
• Religious experience and the phenomenological study of religion
• Concepts of truth in religion and the study of religion: Text of a PowerPoint presentation
• Tillich on symbols
• Religion and science: The scientific study of religion
• An Anthropological Approach to Religion

• The universal family: more than metaphor?

• Feminism and theology

• Relations between religion and philosophy

• Dialogue

• What is pluralism?

• A Proposal for Unity among Religions

Hinduism

• What is religion? Thoughts of Mohandas Gandhi
• The concept of karma in the Bhagavad-Gita
• God and the gods in the Bhagavad-Gita
• Hinduism and the concept of the universal family

Buddhism

• Introduction to Buddhism
• Emotions
• Mindfulness trainings of a Vietnamese Zen Buddhist Monk
• A map diagnosing suffering
• The Heart Sutra
• Philosophy and spiritual experience: the case of a Japanese Shin Buddhist
• Dialectic and religious experience in Tanabe Hajime's Philosophy as Metanoetics

Judaism

• Jewish History

• Concepts of family in the book of Genesis

• Moses the leader

• Moses and the concept of God: Text of a PowerPoint Presentation

• Prophets

• Religious responses to the problem of evil and suffering: Text of a toolbook presentation

• Contemporary Jewish religious thought: I and Thou, by Martin Buber (1878-1965)

Christianity

• Profiles of Jesus of Nazareth

• The Beatitudes

• What is Jesus' gospel?

• Life after death

• What is the meaning of Jesus' death on the cross?

• The apostle Paul

• Paul's robust, affirmative attitude

Islam

• From the Qur'an
• Islam
• Ali Shari'ati (1933-1977)

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