PLANET YIP's Religion & Spirituality Page

PLANET YIP's Religion & Spirituality Page

Recommended reading--General

I'm new to html, so this will get more interesting as I practice! For now, a few links at the bottom of this page and some recommended reading on the various religions of the world, perhaps some not often listed in bibliographies like this:GENERALBouldrey, Brian, ed. Wrestling with the Angel: Faith and Religion in the Lives of Gay Men. New York: Riverhead, 1995. Personal accounts of the interaction between gay men's religion and sexual orientation.Bowker, John, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. New York: Oxford U P, 1997. Brand new and LOADED with information.Bowker, John. Problems of Suffering in Religions of the World. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1970. Still in print and available in paperback. A wonderful survey.Eyre, Ronald. Ronald Eyre on the Long Search. London, BBC, 1979. Eyre's thoughts on his landmark BBC documentary series about religion. Well-written with lots of insights, and super hard to fi

Recommended reading--Eastern and Pagan

Recommended reading--Western

CHRISTIANITY:

Chittister, Joan and Robert Lentz. A Passion for Life: Fragments of the Face of God. Maryknoll: Orbis, 1996. Lentz's controversial icons of modern-day saints (non-canonized usually) are beautifully reproduced in this volume, along with insightful commentary by Chittister.

Pelikan, Jaroslav. Christianity and Classical Culture. New Haven: Yale U P, 1993. Super valuable study of the interactions implied in the title. Learn how important theological ideas in Christianity began.

Ware, Kallistos. The Orthodox Way, revised. Crestwood: St. Vladimir's Seminary Pr, 1995. Everyone's heard of his other book, with its valuable history of the Eastern Christian church, but this one is lesser-known. It discusses the path of Orthodoxy within an individual's life: what it means to be an Orthodox Christian today.

JUDAISM:

Birnbaum, Philip. Encyclopedia of Jewish Concepts. Brooklyn: Hebrew Publishing Co, 1979, 1988. Very thoro

Favourite links

	Table of Faiths Very comprehensive resource of texts, leaders, beliefs of SEVERAL of the world's religions
	Grail Chapel of Ordo Arcanorum Gradalis An beautifully constructed site for a Christo-Pagan religion which is growing fast!
	Emmanuel MCC home page, Albuquerque A local chapter of the Metropolitan Community Church, a gay-friendly and -centered church, has tons of great links on their page--check it out!
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