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RELIGION: REL 150

Core Texts

Pele, Volcano Goddess of Hawaiʻi: A History by H. Arlo Nimmo
Call Number: BL2620.H3 N56 2011 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection-1st floor)
Chapters 2 & 3.

Jacobs, Stephen. Hinduism Today. Continuum, 2020.
Chapter 1 & Chapter 2

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Faure, Bernard. Unmasking Buddhism. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Dues to download limitations, choose the Printer icon to create a PDF of p. 1-34 and then p. 35-56 to download both the Introduction and Part 1.

This book is also available in the library @ BQ4022 .F38 2009
Satlow, Michael. Creating Judaism: History, Tradition, Practice. Columbia UP, 2006.
Chapter 1 & Chapter 2

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Geaves, Ron. Islam Today: An Introduction. Continuum, 2010.
Chapter 1 & Chapter 3

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Buddhism

Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction by Damien Keown

Islam

Islamic History: A Very Short Introduction by Adam J. Silverstein
Call Number: BP50 .S55 2010

Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan A. C. Brown
Call Number: BP75 .B76 2011
Muhammad: Forty Introductions by Michael Muhammad Knight
Call Number: BP135.8.M85 K65 2019
ISBN: 9781593761479
Islam in the World Today: A Handbook of Politics, Religion, Culture, and Society by Werner Ende (Editor); Udo Steinbach (Editor)
The Anthropology of Islam by Gabriele Marranci
Unfolding Islam by P. J. Stewart

Hawaiian & Polynesian

Akua Hawaiʻi: Hawaiian Gods and Their Stories by Armitage, Kimo; Solomon Enos (Illustrator)
Call Number: BL2620.H3 A76 2005 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)

Folktales of Hawaiʻi = He Mau Kaʻao Hawaiʻi by Pukui, Mary Kawena (Compiled by)
Call Number: GR110.H38 P85 1995 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)
Hawaiian and English
Temporarily available as an eBook via HathiTrust Digital Library.
Handbook of Polynesian Mythology by Robert D. Craig
Call Number: BL2620.P6 C72 2004 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)
Available online via Ebook Central.
Print copy also available in General Reference Collection, 1st floor.
Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes by William D. Westervelt
Hawaiian Mythology by Martha W. Beckwith
Call Number: GR385 .B43 1970 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection)
Available as an eBook via Ulukau.
How Natives Think: About Captain Cook, For Example by Marshall D. Sahlins
Keaomelemele; He moolelo kaao no Keaomelemele by Moses Manu (Translator); Mary Kawena Pukui (Translator); Puakea Nogelmeier (Editor)
ISBN: 1581780168
Hawaii and Pacific Collection (1st floor) GR110.H38 K43 2002b
Kingship and Sacrifice: Ritual and Society in Ancient Hawaii by Valerio Valeri; Paula Wissing (Translator)
Call Number: Hawaii and Pacific Collection (1st floor) BL2620.H3 V35 1985
Myths and Legends of Hawaiʻi by Westervelt, William D.
Call Number: GR110.H38 W45 2005 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection-1st floor)
Nā Moʻolelo Hawaiʻi O Ka Wā Kahiko = Stories of Old Hawaiʻi: A Literary Companion to the Hawaiians of Old by Roy Kākulu Alameida
Call Number: PZ8.1.A42 Mo 1997 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)
Native Planters in Old Hawaii: Their Life, Lore, and Environment by E.S. Craighill Handy, Elizabeth Green Handy, & Mary Kawena Pukui
Call Number: GN424 .H3
(Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)
Temporarily available as an eBook via HathiTrust Digital Library.
Oceanic Mythology: The Myths of Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, Australia by Roslyn Poignant
Call Number: BL2600 .P6 1967 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)
Temporarily available as an eBook via HathiTrust Digital Library.
Pele, the Fire Goddess by Dietrich Varez; Pua Kanakaʻole Kanahele
Call Number: BL2620.H3 V37 1991 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)
Pele and Hiiaka: A Myth from Hawaii by Nathaniel B. Emerson
Call Number: GR385.H3 E55 1978 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Reference, Ask at Circulation Desk)
Also available online as an eBook via Internet Archive.
Resource Units in Hawaiian Culture by Donald D. Kilolani Mitchell
Call Number: DU625.8 .M58 1992 (Hawaiʻi & Pacific Collection, 1st floor)
Available as an eBook via Ulukau.

Hinduism

Hinduism by Cybelle T. Shattuck

Judaism

Judaism: An Introduction by Oliver Leaman

Judaism and the Visual Image by Melissa Raphael
Judaism Today: An Introduction by Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Judaism: A Way of Being by David Hillel Gelernter
Call Number: BM562 .G45 2009
Night by Elie Wiesel
Call Number: DS135.R73 W54813 2006
The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Very Short Introduction by Timothy H. Lim

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Christianity

Christianity: A Very Short Introduction by Linda Woodhead

Anglicanism: A Very Short Introduction by Mark Chapman
Catholicism: A Very Short Introduction by Gerald O'Collins
Christian Ethics: A Very Short Introduction by D. Stephen Long
Call Number: BJ1251 .L66 2010
Myth and the Christian Nation: A Social Theory of Religion by Burton L. Mack
The Art of the Sacred: An Introduction to the Aesthetics of Art and Belief by Graham Howes
The Mormon Jesus by John G. Turner
Call Number: BX8643.J4 T87 2016
Publication Date: 2016-04-25
The Old Testament: A Very Short Introduction by Michael D. Coogan
When Science and Christianity Meet by David C. Lindberg (Editor); Ronald L. Numbers (Editor)
A Short History of Chrisitanity by Geoffrey Blainey
Call Number: BR145.3 .B57 2014
Angels: A Very Short Introduction by David Albert Jones
Call Number: BL477 .J662 2011

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