The Idea of Salvation in Contemporary World Religions
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In one form or another, nearly all the world’s religions and ideologies promise their adherents a path to peace and deliverance from humanity's precarious plight. Hinduism and Buddhism offer nirvana, envisioned as a state of blessedness achieved through the extinction of individuality and desires. In African Traditional Religion, adherents seek deliverance from both real and potential enemies, looking to secure the aid of ancestors and gods through divination and prescribed sacrifices to attain earthly prosperity. Islam emphasizes complete submission to Allah as the true pathway to peace, while modern humanism looks forward to a secular ideal: a society fully liberated from social, cultural, economic, and political violence.
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Carl E. Braaten, "The Christian Doctrine of Salvation," Interpretation XXXV (1981), p. 117.
Robert Brow, "Origins of Religion," in The Lion Handbook on The World's Religions (England: Lion Publishing House, 1982), pp. 31, 38, 44, 48.
Tokunboh Adeyemo, Salvation in African Tradition (Nairobi: Evangel Publishing House, 1979), pp. 37–39.
O. Imasogie, African Traditional Religion (Ibadan: University Press Limited, 1982), pp. 76ff.
MARC / World Vision International, "Hidden Peoples 1980" chart.
Gordon H. Clark, "Greek Ethics," Baker's Dictionary of Christian Ethics, ed. Carl F. H. Henry (Grand Rapids: Canon Press, 1973), p. 277.
William Steuart McBirnie, Karl Marx (Glendale: Voice of Americanism, n.d.), p. 3. Tai Solarin, A Message for Young Nigerians (Ibadan: Macmillan Nigeria Pub. Ltd., 1981), p. 91.
Webster's New World Dictionary, Second College Edition, entry for "Yoga," p. 1649.
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