God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World (65 page)

satyagraha
(nonviolent resistance), 10

Saxe, John Godfrey, 339

Schachter-Shalomi, Zalman, 276–77

Schechter, Solomon, 269

Schipper, Kristopher, 304

“School of Principle” (Neo-
Confucianism), 120

Schori, Katharine Jefferts, 90

Scientology movement, 15

Sebastian, St., 239

Second Great Awakening (nineteenth century), 328

Second Vatican Council (1962–65), 82

Secular Left, 338

Seder (Jewish Passover), 264–66

Self-Realization Fellowship, 168

Seligman, Adam, 4

Sephardic Jews, 247, 250

September 11, 2001.
See
9/11

Sermon on the Mount, 11

“Seven Immortals” (Perfect Realization Daoism), 309–10

Seventh-Day Adventists, 82

Seven Years in Tibet
(film), 29, 176

Seymour, William Joseph, 88

Shahadah (central pillar) [Islam], 33, 36

Shakespeare, William, 11, 71

shakti
(Hindu goddess energy), 156

Shakur, Tupac, 203

Shammai, Rabbi, 249–50, 278

Shams, 61

Shango Temple (later Yoruba Temple), 228

Shango (Yoruba orisha), 218

Shantideva, 188

Shariah (law) [Islam], 49–50

Sharif, Omar, 29

Shavuot
(Pentecost), 258

Shema
(Judaism), 251–52

Shias: differences between Sunnis and, 50–52; Ishmaili branch of, 52; legal opinion followed by, 50; Twelver branch of, 51–52.
See also
Muslims; Sunnis

Shinto, 15

shirk
(ignoring oneness of God), 37

Shiva (Hindu destroyer god), 132–33, 137

Shopona (Yoruba orisha), 218

Shulchan Aruch
(Judaism), 250

shunyata
(emptiness) [Mahayana Buddhism], 193–96, 199

Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha), 169–74

Sikhism, 16

Silence
(Endo), 9

Simeon the Stylite, St., 66

The Simpsons
(TV show), 137, 176, 282

sin: Christian beliefs about, 71–72; Islam beliefs related to, 31–32; Seven Deadly Sins, 71

Sir Maha Vallabha Ganapati Devasthanam (New York), 132

Sita Sings the Blues
(animated film), 163

Sitayana,
163

Sivananda, Swami, 2, 5

Smart, Ninian, 13, 49

Smith, Huston, 1, 2, 5, 6, 21, 166, 337

Smith, Joseph, Jr., 51, 82–83

Smith, Wilfred Cantwell, 39

Society of Friends (Quakers), 68, 276

Society of Jesus (Jesuits), 78

Socrates, 43, 102, 113, 118, 148

Sojourners Community (Washington, D.C.), 86

Soka Gakkai International (SGI), 191

Song dynasty (China), 104, 120

souls: Buddhist
anatta
(no soul) teaching on, 184–85; Mormon belief in, 184; Yoruba religion on
emi
and
ori,
205–6

The Souls of Black Folk
(DuBois), 11

Soyinka, Wole, 217, 231, 232

Spielberg, Steven, 247

spirit/body possession (Yoruba religion), 236–38

Arya Samaj, 166

Stalin, Joseph, 17, 317, 324

Stella, Mãe, 227, 228

suffering (Buddhist
dukkha
), 177, 179, 182–83

Sufism, 57–63, 109, 199

suicide bombers: Hindu Tamils, 168; understanding motives of, 35, 36, 96

Sunday, Billy, 85–86

Sunnis: African-American Muslims as, 29; differences between Shias and, 50–52; legal opinion followed by, 50.
See also
Muslims; Shias

Svetaketu (Upanishad character), 149–50

Swedish Pentecostalism, 88–89

Sweeney, Julia, 327

“sword verses” (Quran), 97

Taiji (Tai Chi) classes, 282–83

Taiping Rebellion (1851–64), 290

Tai Shan (China), 114

Taliban (Afghanistan), 52, 53

Talmud (Judaism text), 244, 249–50, 251, 262, 273, 275

Tanakh
(Judaism text), 244, 249, 253, 254, 257, 261–62, 275

Tan, Amy, 307

Tang dynasty (China), 120, 290

Tantric Buddhism, 197

Taoism.
See
Daoism

“Tao of” books, 283

Tariqah
(Sufism mysticism), 60

Tat tvam asi
(“You are that”) (philosophical Hinduism), 149–50

Taylor, Barbara Brown, 201

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
(film), 282

Ten Commandments, 2

Teresa of Avila, 98

Teresa, Mother, 99

terrorism, role of religion in, 8, 10; suicide bombers, 35, 36, 96.
See also
9/11

Theravada Buddhism: on Buddha as pathfinder, 114; description of, 177, 186–90; wisdom of, 42

Thich Nhat Hanh, 180

“Thirteen Principles” (Maimonides),
252, 266

Thomas Aquinas, 98

Thompson, Robert Farris, 219, 226

Thoreau, Henry David, 125, 167, 294

Three Baskets (
Tripitaka
) [Buddhism], 187

Three Bonds (Confucianism), 125

Three Refuges (or Three Jewels) [Buddhism], 180–81

Three Teachings (China), 103–4, 105,
121, 281

Thurman, Robert, 197

Tibetan Book of the Dead, 198

Tibetan Buddhism, 196–98

Tillich, Paul, 107, 326

Time
magazine, 17, 247

Torah (Judaism text): contents of the, 140, 258–59; delivered through Moses, 244; Islamic belief on Allah’s revelation of, 41;
Shavuot
(Pentecost) celebrating giving of, 258; meanings of, 244

Tov, Baal Shem, 269

transubstantiation doctrine (Roman Catholic), 78

Trible, Phyllis, 47

Trinity doctrine (Christianity), 36,
68–70, 84

trinity (Hindu), 153–57

Tripitaka
(Three Baskets) [Buddhism], 187

Tukaram, 152

Tutu, Desmond, 94

Tu Weiming, 107, 108, 124

Twain, Mark, 164, 319

Twilight
series (Meyer), 84

Tyagananda, Swami, 6

Tylor, E. B., 186

Unitarianism, 84

United Coalition of Reason, 325

United States: Asian-American “model minority” in the, 105, 133; born of rebellion to authority, 125; evangelization of, 84–86; Jewish Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox movements in the, 267–70; Nation of Islam (NOI) in the, 29.
See also
American politics; American popular culture; 9/11

Universal Church of the Kingdom of
God, 90

Upanishads (Hinduism), 137, 140, 144–45, 149–50, 151

Updike, John, 200

Vajrayana Buddhism, 196–98

Varanasi (Hindu sacred city), 156

Vedanta Society, 166, 168

Vedas (Hinduism scriptures), 134, 137, 139, 140, 141, 148

Vedic religion, 140–43, 144, 145–46

Vedic sacrifice, 141–42, 147

VHP (Vishva Hindu Parishad), 168

via negativa
(negative way to God), 99

vipassana
(Buddhist meditation), 178