Religion for Atheists

Index

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abortion

advertising 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 10.1

aesthetics

afterlife, theories of 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1

agape feasts

Agnes of Montepulciano, St 1.1, 1.2

akrasia 4.1

Alabbar, Mohamed 10.1

Ando, Tadao: Christian Church of the Light 9.1

Angelico, Fra: Last Judgement 8.1

anger 2.1, 3.1

Anthony of Padua, St 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 8.1, 10.1

Apollonia, St

apologizing 2.1, 4.1

Aquinas, St Thomas

architecture: and aesthetics 9.1, 9.2 Buddhist 1.1, 9.3; Christian 9.4

Arkwright, Sir Richard

Armani, Giorgio 10.1, 10.2

Arnold, Matthew 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6

art: Christian 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 8.1, 8.2 contemporary 8.3, 8.4, 8.5; education in 4.1, 4.2, 4.3; purpose and significance of 8.6, 8.7, 8.8

art galleries see museums and art galleries

astronomy 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1, 10.1

Augustine, St 2.1, 4.1, 4.2

Bach, Johann Sebastian 1.1, 5.1

Banner, Fiona: Every Word Unmade 8.1

Baptists 4.1, 4.2

Bar Mitzvah 2.1, 2.2

Bardou, Audrey 8.1, 8.2

Bashō

bathing, ritual 4.1, 4.2

Bedouin

Bellini, Giovanni 1.1, 5.1, 8.1

Bellow, Saul

bereavement 1.1, 2.1

Bernard of Clairvaux, St

Bible 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 9.1, 10.1;Book of Job 7.1, 7.2; Deuteronomy 4.3; Genesis 4.4; Leviticus 2.1; Psalms 3.3, 4.5, 4.6; Romans 3.4

Bichat, Marie François Xavier

Bildad the Shuhite

birkat ilanot (Jewish prayer) 10.1

Birkat Ilanot (Jewish festival) 10.1

Boccaccio, Giovanni

Book of Common Prayer

Book of Hours 4.1

books: manufacture and sale 4.1, 10.1, 10.2; reading 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 8.1

branding 10.1, 10.2

Brueghel, Jan, the Younger: Paradise 6.1

Buddhism 4.1; Eightfold Path 1.1; Guan Yin 5.1, 5.2; mandalas 8.1, 8.2; meditation 4.2, 4.3; reincarnation 1.2, 1.3; retreats 4.4; places of worship 9.1, 9.2; see also Zen Buddhism

Buffett, Warren

calendars, religious 4.1, 4.2, 7.1

Calvin, John 9.1, 9.2

Campaña, Pedro: The Seven Sorrows of

the Virgin 8.1

capitalism 2.1, 9.1

careerism 2.1, 2.2

Cassatt, Mary 8.1; The Child’s Bath5.1

Catholicism: aestheticism 9.1, 9.2; confession 10.1; cura animarum 10.2; edicts and decrees 10.3; Eucharist 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4; Marian cult 5.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4; Mass 2.5, 2.6, 2.7; Missal 2.8, 2.9; prayer 4.1, 4.2, 5.2; retreats 4.3; revenue 10.4; saints 3.1; Stations of the Cross 8.5, 8.6

chanoyu see Zen Buddhism

charity

Chekhov, Anton

child-raising 3.1, 3.2

China 6.1; Buddhism 5.1

Christian art see art: Christian

Christian calendar 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 7.1

Christian education 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

Christianity: agape feasts 2.1; annunciation 1.1, 8.1; Book of Common Prayer 4.1; crucifixion 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5; early development of 1.2, 4.2; Eucharist 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5; Feast of Fools (festum

fatuorum) 2.1, 2.2; Gospels 2.3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 8.1; Marian cult 5.2, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5; Mass 2.4, 2.5, 2.6; Missal 2.7, 2.8; Original Sin 3.1; pilgrimages 4.3, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1; prayer 4.4, 5.3; saints 3.2, 9.3; sermons and oratory 1.1, 1.2, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7; Stations of the Cross 8.6, 8.7; Ten Commandments 3.3; Trinity 1.3; see also Catholicism; churches; Protestantism

Christmas

churches (buildings) 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

Churchill, Sir Winston

Cicero 4.1, 10.1

cinema-going

Cistercians 4.1, 4.2

cities see urban life

Clairvaux Abbey 4.1, 4.2

classics, education in 4.1, 4.2

commodification

community, sense of: erosion of 2.1, 2.2; hatred of 2.3; and meals 2.4; and religion 1.1, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10

community centres

commuting 2.1, 2.2

compassion 1.1, 2.1, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

Comte, Auguste 10.1, 10.2

Constantine

contemplation

Coquerel, François 8.1

Cornelius, St

corporations 10.1, 10.2, 10.3

crime 3.1, 3.2, 3.3; fear of 2.1

crucifixion 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4

Cuthbert, St

Dante Alighieri

Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 7.1

death 1.1, 2.1, 4.1

Demeter

Descartes, René

diCorcia, Philip-Lorca

Donatello

Donatus, St

Donne, John

Duccio di Buoninsegna: The Last Supper2.1

education: and ethics 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 10.1; in humanities 4.6, 4.7, 4.8; oratory and 4.9, 4.10;purpose of 4.11, 4.12, 4.13;religious 4.14, 4.15, 4.16, 4.17;in science 4.18, 9.1; vocational102, 4.19

Einstein, Albert

Eliot, George: Middlemarch 4.1

Eliot, T.S.: The Waste Land 4.1

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Enlightenment 3.1, 4.1

Epicureanism 1.1, 4.1

Eucharist 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4

fame 2.1, 10.1

family; see also marriage; parenting

Faraday, Michael

Feast of Fools (festum fatuorum) 2.1, 2.2

Five Books of Moses see Torah

Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary 4.1

forgiveness 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1

Foy, St

Fragonard, Jean-Honoré: The Rest during

the Flight to Egypt 8.1, 8.2

Francis of Assisi, St 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

freedom 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4

French Revolution

Freud, Sigmund 3.1, 4.1

funerals 2.1, 2.2

Gannaway, Preston 8.1

genius loci 9.1, 9.2

Gill, Eric: Jesus Falls a Third Time8.1

Giotto 1.1; The Vices and the Virtues 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

God: invention of 1.1, 3.1, 7.1; non-existence of 1.2, 1.3, 3.2, 7.2

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Gordon, George

Gospels 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 8.1

Gougan Barra church, Ireland 9.1

Greeks, ancient 4.1, 4.2, 5.1

Grünewald, Matthias: Isenheim Altarpiece 8.1, 8.2

Guan Yin 5.1, 5.2

Guibert of Nogent

Gutenberg, Johannes

Haggadah 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the d’Urbervilles 117

heaven see paradise

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 8.1, 8.2

hell 3.1, 3.2, 8.1, 8.2

Hepworth, Dame Barbara 8.1, 8.2

Holy Communion see Eucharist

hotels

industrialization

Isenheim, Monastery of St Anthony

Isis

James, Henry

Jerusalem: Wailing Wall 6.1, 6.2

Jews: Bar Mitzvah 2.1, 2.2; funerals 2.3, 2.4; marriages 6.1; meals 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3.1; prayer 6.2; ritual readings 4.1; see also Judaism

Job, Book of 7.1, 7.2

Joseph, St

Judaism: birkat ilanot 10.1; Birkat Ilanot 10.2; Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 7.1; Haggadah 2.4, 2.5, 2.6; mikveh 4.1, 4.2; Mishnah 3.1, 3.2; Passover 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10; Prayer Book of the United Congregation 6.1; Talmud 3.3, 3.4, 10.3; Ten Commandments 3.5; Torah 4.3, 4.4, 4.5; see also Jews

Jude, St 3.1, 3.2

Juno

Katib, Abid: Shifa hospital, Gaza8.1

Keats, John 4.1, 10.1

Lacaille, Nicolas

Laodicea, Council of (AD 364)

Last Supper 2.1, 2.2

Lateran, Fourth Council of the (1213–15)

law 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 10.1

Leeds

Levitt, Helen: New York8.1, 8.2

libertarianism 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7

liberty see freedom

Lincoln, Abraham

Lippi, Filippino: The Adoration of the

Child 8.1, 8.2

literature 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 8.1

loneliness 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4

Long, Richard: Red Slate Circle8.1

Louis XI

Louvre museum 8.1, 8.2

love 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 6.1, 8.1

Luke, St

McDonald’s Corporation

Manchester

mandalas, Buddhist 8.1, 8.2

Mantegna, Andrea: Crucifixion 8.1, 8.2

Marcel, St

Marcus Aurelius 4.1, 4.2

marriage 2.1, 3.1, 6.1

Mars

Martin, Agnes

Marx, Karl

Mary, Virgin 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4; Seven Sorrows 8.5, 8.6

Maslow, Abraham

Mass see Catholicism

meals

meditation 4.1, 4.2

metaphysics

Michelangelo Buonarroti: Pietà8.1

mikveh 4.1, 4.2

Mill, John Stuart 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6; On Liberty 3.1

Milton, John: Paradise Lost 7.1

Mishnah 3.1, 3.2

Missal see Catholicism

Modernism

monasticism 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1, 8.2

Montaigne, Michel de

museums and art galleries 2.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1

Musil, Robert

news

Nhat Hanh, Thich

Nietzsche, Friedrich 1.1, 10.1

Oe, Kenzaburo

oratory 4.1, 4.2

Original Sin

Padua: basilica of St Anthony 4.1, 4.2, 10.1; Cappella Scrovegni 3.1, 3.2

paganism

Palissy, Bernard

paradise 1.1, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 10.1

parenting 3.1, 3.2

Pascal, Blaise: Pensées 6.1

Passover 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4

paternalism 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5

Pentateuch see Torah

Pentecostalism 4.1, 4.2

Pericles

perspective 7.1, 8.1, 9.1

pessimism

Pessoa, Fernando

Philip Neri, St

philosophy, teaching and study of 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6

physics, teaching and study of

pilgrimages 4.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1

Plato 4.1; Republic 10.1, 10.2

Plotinus

population density

Poussin, Nicolas

prayer 4.1, 5.1, 6.1

pride 2.1, 3.1

progress, scientific and economic 6.1, 6.2

propaganda

property development 9.1, 9.2

Protestantism 9.1, 9.2

Proust, Marcel

Psalms 3.1, 4.1, 4.2

psalter 3.1

psychotherapy 10.1, 10.2

publishing 4.1, 10.1

Pugin, Augustus 9.1, 9.2

reading 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 8.1

Reformation

Rembrandt: Christ in the Storm on the

Sea of Galilee 8.1

restaurants

retreats, religious 4.1

Rilke, Rainer Maria, ‘Archaic Torso of Apollo’

Rita of Cascia, St

Roman Empire 2.1, 4.1, 9.1; deities 5.1, 9.2; rise of Christianity 1.1, 10.1

Romanticism 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6

Rome: Basilica of San Lorenzo 9.1; Chiesa del Gesù 9.2, 9.3; San Lorenzo in Miranda 1.1

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

saints 3.1, 9.1; secular 10.1, 10.2; see also individual saints

Salvi, Giovanni Battista: The Madonna in

Sorrow 5.1

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Seneca 4.1, 4.2

sermons 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

Serra, Richard

Seven Sorrows of Mary 8.1, 8.2

sex: and marriage 2.1; religious laws on 3.1

Shakespeare, William 10.1, 10.2

shrines 4.1, 4.2, 9.1, 10.1

Smith, Adam

Smith, Paul

sophists 4.1, 4.2

Soth, Alec

soul 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

spas

Spinoza, Benedictus de 7.1, 7.2

spiritual exercises

stars 7.1, 7.2

Stations of the Cross 8.1, 8.2

status, social 2.1, 2.2, 10.1

Stendhal

strangers, fear of 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

Struth, Thomas 8.1, 8.2; National

Gallery I, London 8.1

suffering

Talmud 3.1, 3.2, 10.1

Tarkovsky, Andrei

tavolette 8.1, 8.2

taxation

tea ceremony see Zen Buddhism

technological progress 6.1, 6.2

teddy bears

telescopes 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1

Ten Commandments

theft 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

Theravada Buddhism

Thomas Becket, St 2.1

Titian 8.1, 8.2; The Flight into Egypt8.3, 8.4

Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina 4.1; The Death of Ivan Ilyich 4.2

Torah 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

Torgau: Schloss Hartenfels chapel 9.1, 9.2

Torments of Hell 3.1

Trent, Council of (1563)

tsukimi see Zen Buddhism

United States 4.1, 4.2, 6.1

universities 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 8.1, 10.1

urban life 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 9.1

Utrecht: Cathedral of St Martin 9.1

van Orley, Bernard: The Seven Sorrows

of the Virgin 8.1

Veneziano, Paolo

Venice: Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari

Venus

Vipers, Father Chris 10.1

Wagner, Richard

Wailing Wall 6.1, 6.2

Wall, Jeff

weddings see marriage

welfare benefits 2.1, 2.2

Wesley, John 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

Whitman, Walt 3.1, 4.1, 4.2

Winnicott, Donald

Woolf, Virginia 3.1

work: careerism 2.1, 2.2; commuting 2.3, 2.4; recruitment 10.1; training manuals 10.2

Yom Kippur see Day of Atonement

Zen architecture 1.1, 9.1

Zen Buddhism 2.1, 4.1; chanoyu(tea ceremony) 4.2, 4.3; tsukimi(ritual) celebrations 10.1, 10.2

Zophar the Naamathite

Zurbarán, Francisco de: The Bound Lamb8.1