...horus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with text reset, various emendations, and new... ...publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using the program Mellel, with an Apple iMac... ...n i What Is Religion? 1 Definitions Of Religion The Spiritual And Material Worlds Religious Belief Systems Versus An Emotional Response To God Religio... ...re of the population. Religious questioning is now a concern of the entire world, West and East alike. One sign of this is the extraordinary prolifera... ...ecause in Aboriginal culture many geographical areas are considered sacred sites and therefore off-limits to industrial or housing development. The di... ...em as a Jewish sect. As a consequence, Christians with no Jewish religious heritage gradually became the theological leaders in Christianity, and the ... ... blend with tradi- tional Jewish presuppositions. Of all the philosophical heritage of Greece and Rome it was Plato’s teachings, as taught and ex- pan... ...n the centers of Christianity came to be in Turkey, Greece, and eventually Italy, the feeling that something essential was missing, in the patriarchal... ...ng has been lost, and also, tourists have effaced or chipped away at these sites, removing valuable fragments which it has been hard for concerned ant...

...ildren we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been...