# Religion Decks

Imported and community decks waiting for editorial categorization.

Canonical URL: https://shipslides.com/c/religion
Deck count: 10

## Decks

### Buddhism
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/religion-buddhism
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/religion-buddhism/llms.txt
Slides: 30
Tags: religion, buddhism

Buddhism is what the Buddha taught and what his followers — across 2,500 years and a continent — made of the teaching. It is one of the largest world religions; it is also a distinctive philosophical and contemplative tradition that arguably stands on its own without religious claims. Key sections include: Bud dhism.; Opening What Buddhism is.; Chapter I The Buddha.; Chapter II The Four Noble Truths.; Chapter III The Noble Eightfold Path.; Chapter IV The three marks of existence.; Chapter V Dependent origination.; Chapter VI The community.; Chapter VII The early centuries.; Chapter VIII Theravāda — the Southern tradition..

Outline:
1. Bud dhism.
2. Opening What Buddhism is.
3. Chapter I The Buddha.
4. Chapter II The Four Noble Truths.
5. Chapter III The Noble Eightfold Path.
6. Chapter IV The three marks of existence.
7. Chapter V Dependent origination.
8. Chapter VI The community.
9. Chapter VII The early centuries.
10. Chapter VIII Theravāda — the Southern tradition.
11. Chapter IX Mahāyāna — the Great Vehicle.
12. Chapter X Vajrayāna — the Diamond Vehicle.
13. Chapter XI Chan / Zen / Sŏn.
14. Chapter XII The texts.
15. Chapter XIII The meditation traditions.
16. Chapter XIV The spread across Asia.
17. Chapter XV Decline in India, survival elsewhere.
18. Chapter XVI Buddhism in the West.
19. Chapter XVII The mindfulness phenomenon.
20. Chapter XVIII Buddhism today.
21. Chapter XIX Buddhism and Western philosophy.
22. Chapter XX Living issues.
23. Chapter XXI Common misconceptions.
24. Chapter XXII Why study Buddhism.
25. Chapter XXIII Twenty-five works.
26. Chapter XXIV Watch & read.
27. Chapter XXV If you want to learn or practice.
28. Chapter XXVI Why Buddhism matters.
29. Chapter XXVII The next decade.
30. The end of the deck.

### Christianity
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/religion-christianity
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/religion-christianity/llms.txt
Slides: 32
Tags: religion, christianity

Christianity is the faith that the Galilean Jew Jesus of Nazareth, executed by the Romans around 30 CE, was raised from the dead and is the Messiah promised in the Hebrew scriptures — the Son of God through whom the world is reconciled to its maker. Key sections include: Christ ianity.; Opening What it is.; Chapter I Jesus of Nazareth.; Chapter II Paul of Tarsus.; Chapter III How the New Testament was made.; Chapter IV The empire turns.; Chapter V Nicaea, 325.; Chapter VI Chalcedon, 451.; Chapter VII Augustine of Hippo.; Chapter VIII The desert and the cloister..

Outline:
1. Christ ianity.
2. Opening What it is.
3. Chapter I Jesus of Nazareth.
4. Chapter II Paul of Tarsus.
5. Chapter III How the New Testament was made.
6. Chapter IV The empire turns.
7. Chapter V Nicaea, 325.
8. Chapter VI Chalcedon, 451.
9. Chapter VII Augustine of Hippo.
10. Chapter VIII The desert and the cloister.
11. Chapter IX 1054 — East and West.
12. Chapter X The medieval synthesis.
13. Chapter XI Wittenberg, 1517.
14. Chapter XII The Reformed branch.
15. Chapter XIII The Catholic answer.
16. Chapter XIV The wars of religion.
17. Chapter XV The Great Awakenings.
18. Chapter XVI The missionary century.
19. Chapter XVII The nineteenth-century crisis.
20. Chapter XVIII Vatican II.
21. Chapter XIX Azusa and after.
22. Chapter XX Eastern Orthodoxy.
23. Chapter XXI Liberation theology.
24. Chapter XXII The shape of the doctrine.
25. Chapter XXIII Worship.
26. Chapter XXIV The world Christian map.
27. Chapter XXV Twenty Christians worth knowing.
28. Chapter XXVI Twenty-five essentials.
29. Chapter XXVII The case against.
30. Chapter XXVIII Christianity in 2025.
31. Chapter XXIX Watch & read.
32. End of the deck.

### Comparative Religion
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/religion-comparative-religion
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/religion-comparative-religion/llms.txt
Slides: 31
Tags: religion, comparative

"He who knows one, knows none." Friedrich Max Müller's phrase, lifted from Goethe and applied to religions, became the founding aphorism of comparative religion in the 1870s. To understand any single tradition you have to compare it with others, because what looks like the essence of your own from inside is just one variant from outside. Key sections include: Comparative Religion.; Opening The science of religion.; Chapter I What religion is.; Chapter II Friedrich Max Müller.; Chapter III The anthropological line.; Chapter IV Rudolf Otto and the holy.; Chapter V Mircea Eliade.; Chapter VI Ninian Smart's seven dimensions.; Chapter VII Phenomenology of religion.; Chapter VIII William James and religious experience..

Outline:
1. Comparative Religion.
2. Opening The science of religion.
3. Chapter I What religion is.
4. Chapter II Friedrich Max Müller.
5. Chapter III The anthropological line.
6. Chapter IV Rudolf Otto and the holy.
7. Chapter V Mircea Eliade.
8. Chapter VI Ninian Smart's seven dimensions.
9. Chapter VII Phenomenology of religion.
10. Chapter VIII William James and religious experience.
11. Chapter IX Max Weber and religious sociology.
12. Chapter X The "world religions" framework.
13. Chapter XI Tomoko Masuzawa's critique.
14. Chapter XII Jonathan Z. Smith.
15. Chapter XIII Talal Asad and the genealogy of "religion."
16. Chapter XIV Clifford Geertz and thick description.
17. Chapter XV The cognitive turn.
18. Chapter XVI Wach, Bellah, and types of religious community.
19. Chapter XVII The contemporary methods.
20. Chapter XVIII The insider/outsider problem.
21. Chapter XIX Theologies of religious pluralism.
22. Chapter XX New religious movements.
23. Chapter XXI Lived religion.
24. Chapter XXII Secularisation and its critics.
25. Chapter XXIII The teaching tradition.
26. Chapter XXIV Religion and violence.
27. Chapter XXV Watch & read.
28. Chapter XXVI The shelf.
29. Chapter XXVII Why it still matters.
30. Chapter XXVIII The next decade.
31. The end of the deck.

### Hinduism
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/religion-hinduism
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/religion-hinduism/llms.txt
Slides: 32
Tags: religion, hinduism

Hinduism is not one religion. It is the term Westerners coined in the nineteenth century for an enormous family of traditions, philosophies, ritual systems, and devotional movements that grew on the Indian subcontinent over four thousand years. Key sections include: Hindu ism.; Opening What it is.; Chapter I The Vedas.; Chapter II The Upaniṣads.; Chapter III The four aims.; Chapter IV The Mahābhārata.; Chapter V The Bhagavad Gītā.; Chapter VI The Rāmāyaṇa.; Chapter VII The pantheon.; Chapter VIII The six darśanas..

Outline:
1. Hindu ism.
2. Opening What it is.
3. Chapter I The Vedas.
4. Chapter II The Upaniṣads.
5. Chapter III The four aims.
6. Chapter IV The Mahābhārata.
7. Chapter V The Bhagavad Gītā.
8. Chapter VI The Rāmāyaṇa.
9. Chapter VII The pantheon.
10. Chapter VIII The six darśanas.
11. Chapter IX Śaṅkara and Advaita.
12. Chapter X The Bhakti turn.
13. Chapter XI Tantra.
14. Chapter XII Varṇa, jāti, and the caste question.
15. Chapter XIII Yoga.
16. Chapter XIV Sacred geography.
17. Chapter XV The nineteenth century.
18. Chapter XVI Gandhi.
19. Chapter XVII Hindu nationalism.
20. Chapter XVIII The global Hindu diaspora.
21. Chapter XIX The Hindu year.
22. Chapter XX The two pillars.
23. Chapter XXI Twenty Hindus worth knowing.
24. Chapter XXII Twenty-five essentials.
25. Chapter XXIII Hinduism in 2025.
26. Chapter XXIV The saṃskāras.
27. Chapter XXV Sanskrit and the languages.
28. Chapter XXVI Watch & read.
29. Chapter XXVII What endures.
30. Chapter XXVIII Twelve terms.
31. Chapter XXIX One last verse.
32. End of the deck.

### Indigenous Religions
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/religion-indigenous-religions
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/religion-indigenous-religions/llms.txt
Slides: 30
Tags: religion, indigenous, religions

A category of necessity, not of nature. The world's roughly 370 million indigenous people belong to thousands of distinct peoples — Yoruba, Maori, Lakota, Sami, Aboriginal Australian, Inuit, Ainu, Quechua, Hopi, Bantu, Sentinelese — each with its own cosmology, ritual life, kinship and land relations. Lumping them as a single religious category is itself a colonial gesture. We do it because the alternative is... Key sections include: Indigenous Religions.; Opening What "indigenous religion" names.; Chapter I The category itself.; Chapter II The scale of diversity.; Chapter III Animism, then and now.; Chapter IV The ancestors.; Chapter V Place and land.; Chapter VI Ritual specialists.; Chapter VII The oral transmission.; Chapter VIII Cosmologies..

Outline:
1. Indigenous Religions.
2. Opening What "indigenous religion" names.
3. Chapter I The category itself.
4. Chapter II The scale of diversity.
5. Chapter III Animism, then and now.
6. Chapter IV The ancestors.
7. Chapter V Place and land.
8. Chapter VI Ritual specialists.
9. Chapter VII The oral transmission.
10. Chapter VIII Cosmologies.
11. Chapter IX Yoruba and the orisha tradition.
12. Chapter X Aboriginal Australian Dreaming.
13. Chapter XI Native American traditions.
14. Chapter XII Maori and Polynesia.
15. Chapter XIII Sami and Arctic traditions.
16. Chapter XIV Amazonian cosmologies.
17. Chapter XV The colonial disruption.
18. Chapter XVI Syncretism and survival.
19. Chapter XVII The revitalisation.
20. Chapter XVIII The ethics of study.
21. Chapter XIX Vine Deloria Jr.
22. Chapter XX Indigenous religions in 2026.
23. Chapter XXI Standing Rock and the present politics.
24. Chapter XXII Watch & read.
25. Chapter XXIII The shelf.
26. Chapter XXIV Why they matter.
27. Chapter XXV The next decade.
28. Chapter XXVI A last word on category.
29. Chapter XXVII What outsiders can do.
30. The end of the deck.

### Islam
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/religion-islam
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/religion-islam/llms.txt
Slides: 32
Tags: religion, islam

Islam is the religion founded on the conviction that there is no god but God ( lā ilāha illa'llāh ) and that Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullāh, an Arab merchant of Mecca, is His final messenger. Key sections include: Is lām.; Opening What it is.; Chapter I The Prophet.; Chapter II The Qur'an.; Chapter III The Hadith.; Chapter IV The Five Pillars.; Chapter V The Rāshidūn.; Chapter VI The great division.; Chapter VII The Umayyads.; Chapter VIII The golden age..

Outline:
1. Is lām.
2. Opening What it is.
3. Chapter I The Prophet.
4. Chapter II The Qur'an.
5. Chapter III The Hadith.
6. Chapter IV The Five Pillars.
7. Chapter V The Rāshidūn.
8. Chapter VI The great division.
9. Chapter VII The Umayyads.
10. Chapter VIII The golden age.
11. Chapter IX Law — Sharī‘a and fiqh.
12. Chapter X Kalām and the rationalist debate.
13. Chapter XI The mystical path.
14. Chapter XII al-Andalus.
15. Chapter XIII The Mongol turn.
16. Chapter XIV The Ottoman Empire.
17. Chapter XV The reform impulse.
18. Chapter XVI Women in Islam.
19. Chapter XVII The 1979 turn.
20. Chapter XVIII The argument over jihad.
21. Chapter XIX The world Muslim map.
22. Chapter XX The architecture.
23. Chapter XXI The Muslim year.
24. Chapter XXII Common errors.
25. Chapter XXIII Twenty Muslims worth knowing.
26. Chapter XXIV Twenty-five essentials.
27. Chapter XXV Islam in 2025.
28. Chapter XXVI Watch & read.
29. Chapter XXVII What endures.
30. Chapter XXVIII Twelve terms.
31. Chapter XXIX One last verse.
32. End of the deck.

### Judaism
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/religion-judaism
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/religion-judaism/llms.txt
Slides: 30
Tags: religion, judaism

A religion, an ethnicity, a peoplehood, a textual tradition, and an argument. Judaism is what the Jewish people have done with the covenant they understand themselves to share with the God of Abraham. It has lasted, in continuously identifiable form, for some 3,000 years. Key sections include: Ju daism.; Opening What Judaism is.; Chapter I Ancient Israel.; Chapter II The Hebrew Bible.; Chapter III The Second Temple period.; Chapter IV The rabbinic re-foundation.; Chapter V Talmud as form of life.; Chapter VI The medieval diaspora.; Chapter VII Maimonides.; Chapter VIII Kabbalah..

Outline:
1. Ju daism.
2. Opening What Judaism is.
3. Chapter I Ancient Israel.
4. Chapter II The Hebrew Bible.
5. Chapter III The Second Temple period.
6. Chapter IV The rabbinic re-foundation.
7. Chapter V Talmud as form of life.
8. Chapter VI The medieval diaspora.
9. Chapter VII Maimonides.
10. Chapter VIII Kabbalah.
11. Chapter IX Hasidism.
12. Chapter X Emancipation and reform.
13. Chapter XI The denominations today.
14. Chapter XII Martin Buber.
15. Chapter XIII Abraham Joshua Heschel.
16. Chapter XIV Emmanuel Levinas.
17. Chapter XV Joseph Soloveitchik.
18. Chapter XVI The Shoah.
19. Chapter XVII Modern Israel.
20. Chapter XVIII The practice of Jewish life.
21. Chapter XIX The synagogue.
22. Chapter XX Halakhah.
23. Chapter XXI Jewish feminism.
24. Chapter XXII Watch & read.
25. Chapter XXIII The shelf.
26. Chapter XXIV Why Judaism matters.
27. Chapter XXV The next decade.
28. Chapter XXVI How to engage.
29. Chapter XXVII The covenant.
30. The end of the deck.

### Mysticism
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/religion-mysticism
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/religion-mysticism/llms.txt
Slides: 30
Tags: religion, mysticism

A claim of direct, non-mediated experience of ultimate reality, found in some practitioners of every major religious tradition and in some practitioners of none. The mystics report something they did not invent. The traditions surround that report with framework, technique, and warning. Key sections include: Mys ticism.; Opening What mysticism is.; Chapter I The phenomenon.; Chapter II Christian mysticism — early.; Chapter III Hildegard and the women's tradition.; Chapter IV Meister Eckhart.; Chapter V The English mystics.; Chapter VI Teresa of Ávila.; Chapter VII John of the Cross.; Chapter VIII Sufism — the inward Islam..

Outline:
1. Mys ticism.
2. Opening What mysticism is.
3. Chapter I The phenomenon.
4. Chapter II Christian mysticism — early.
5. Chapter III Hildegard and the women's tradition.
6. Chapter IV Meister Eckhart.
7. Chapter V The English mystics.
8. Chapter VI Teresa of Ávila.
9. Chapter VII John of the Cross.
10. Chapter VIII Sufism — the inward Islam.
11. Chapter IX Rumi.
12. Chapter X Ibn Arabi.
13. Chapter XI Al-Ghazali.
14. Chapter XII Kabbalah.
15. Chapter XIII Hasidism.
16. Chapter XIV Hindu contemplative paths.
17. Chapter XV Buddhist contemplative traditions.
18. Chapter XVI William James and the modern study.
19. Chapter XVII Evelyn Underhill.
20. Chapter XVIII Thomas Merton.
21. Chapter XIX Perennialism and its critics.
22. Chapter XX Mysticism in 2026.
23. Chapter XXI Reading the mystics.
24. Chapter XXII Watch & read.
25. Chapter XXIII The shelf.
26. Chapter XXIV Why the mystics matter.
27. Chapter XXV The next decade.
28. Chapter XXVI How to begin.
29. Chapter XXVII The territory and the maps.
30. The end of the deck.

### Secular Spirituality
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/religion-secular-spirituality
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/religion-secular-spirituality/llms.txt
Slides: 30
Tags: religion, secular, spirituality

A growing category of modern life: people who have left, or never joined, organised religion, but who pursue contemplative practice, ethical commitment, and a sense of meaning that earlier generations would have called religious. The "spiritual but not religious." The seculars-with-a-practice. The post-Christian, post-Jewish, post-anything seekers who do not want the institutions but do want the depth. Key sections include: Secular Spirituality.; Opening What this is.; Chapter I Defining the territory.; Chapter II The rise of the "nones."; Chapter III Where it came from.; Chapter IV Mindfulness.; Chapter V Secular Buddhism.; Chapter VI The Stoic revival.; Chapter VII Sam Harris.; Chapter VIII Alain de Botton..

Outline:
1. Secular Spirituality.
2. Opening What this is.
3. Chapter I Defining the territory.
4. Chapter II The rise of the "nones."
5. Chapter III Where it came from.
6. Chapter IV Mindfulness.
7. Chapter V Secular Buddhism.
8. Chapter VI The Stoic revival.
9. Chapter VII Sam Harris.
10. Chapter VIII Alain de Botton.
11. Chapter IX The New Atheist critique.
12. Chapter X Yoga as secular spiritual practice.
13. Chapter XI Psychedelics and the secular sacred.
14. Chapter XII Effective altruism — the moralism of secular spirituality.
15. Chapter XIII Critiques of secular spirituality.
16. Chapter XIV Pierre Hadot and "philosophy as a way of life."
17. Chapter XV The meaning question.
18. Chapter XVI The community problem.
19. Chapter XVII Death and dying.
20. Chapter XVIII Raising secular children.
21. Chapter XIX The political question.
22. Chapter XX Watch & read.
23. Chapter XXI The shelf.
24. Chapter XXII An honest assessment.
25. Chapter XXIII Why this matters.
26. Chapter XXIV The next decade.
27. Chapter XXV How to begin.
28. Chapter XXVI The category and what comes after.
29. Chapter XXVII For the seriously interested.
30. The end of the deck.

### Taoism & Confucianism
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/religion-taoism-confucianism
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/religion-taoism-confucianism/llms.txt
Slides: 31
Tags: religion, taoism, confucianism

Chinese civilisation has been shaped, more than by any other intellectual force, by the long conversation between two indigenous traditions. Confucianism — the way of human propriety, ritual, social harmony, and educated cultivation. Taoism — the way of nature, spontaneity, non-coercion, and the dao that exceeds names. Each defines itself partly in relation to the other. Key sections include: Taoism & Confucianism. 道 · 儒; Opening The two pillars.; Chapter I Before Confucius and Lao Tzu.; Chapter II Confucius.; Chapter III The texture of the Analects.; Chapter IV Mencius.; Chapter V Xunzi.; Chapter VI Lao Tzu.; Chapter VII Chuang Tzu.; Chapter VIII Religious Daoism..

Outline:
1. Taoism & Confucianism. 道 · 儒
2. Opening The two pillars.
3. Chapter I Before Confucius and Lao Tzu.
4. Chapter II Confucius.
5. Chapter III The texture of the Analects.
6. Chapter IV Mencius.
7. Chapter V Xunzi.
8. Chapter VI Lao Tzu.
9. Chapter VII Chuang Tzu.
10. Chapter VIII Religious Daoism.
11. Chapter IX Han Confucianism.
12. Chapter X Buddhism's arrival; the Tang-Song reckoning.
13. Chapter XI Zhu Xi.
14. Chapter XII Wang Yangming.
15. Chapter XIII The Confucian fabric of social life.
16. Chapter XIV Daoism and Chinese culture.
17. Chapter XV The three teachings.
18. Chapter XVI Encounter with the West.
19. Chapter XVII The May Fourth attack on tradition.
20. Chapter XVIII The Cultural Revolution.
21. Chapter XIX The contemporary revival.
22. Chapter XX Daoism today.
23. Chapter XXI Beyond China.
24. Chapter XXII Watch & read.
25. Chapter XXIII The shelf.
26. Chapter XXIV Why these traditions matter.
27. Chapter XXV The next decade.
28. Chapter XXVI How to begin.
29. Chapter XXVII The two ways together.
30. Chapter XXVIII A note on the texts.
31. 道 終 · 儒 終