Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Toward a definition of religion --Religious traditions --Religious experience --Elements of religious experience --Religion in artistic expression --Knowledge, belief, authority, and tradition --Ways of conceiving the divine --Evil: its reality and meaning --Understanding the self --Freedom and the self --Sin and guilt --Death and the self --Salvation and redemption --The religious matrix of interpersonal relations --Corporate expressions of ethical concerns --Religious traditions and social stability --Religious traditions and social change --Human response to the natural process --Order and origins.