Read this online "textbook" used for this course, Survey of World Religions.  Read the whole thing, then take the comprehensive exams below.

Read, skim or search inside these additional online books on world religions by Huston Smith for help with your exams below.

PhD COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS

(Once you fill out the Ph.D. application and pay the tuition fee, you will be given access to all the exams below.  )

The famous (some would say infamous) Desert Religions: Christianity, Judaism, Islam
1. Christianity, So Many Divisions: Catholicism with her delusions of grandeur and egotistical exclusivity, Eastern Orthodoxy the most ancient Christians, Protestants -- the new kids on the block, Wierd modern Christian derivatives that knock on your door with pamphlets in hand...
2. Islam -- Sunni, Sufi, what is this Shi'ite?
3. Judaism: the Ancient-to-Modern Religion that Shaped the Entire World

Far Eastern Religions
Chapters:
1. Buddhism, Daughter of India
2. Zen Buddhism, Daughter of China
3. Other Chinese religions
4. Japanese Religions
5. Animism, alive and thriving in the far east, Africa & India
6. Meditate Shmeditate
7. India, the oldest continuously practiced religions (Shaivism 10,000 years)

Polynesian Religions (Australia, New Zealand, other Pacific Islands)

Pre-Christian European Religions (Heathen/Teutonic, Celtic, Roman Civic Religion, Greek)

Church of the Way, a series of lessons in esoteric alternative Christianity

Shamanism worldwide from Slavic to African

The many Native American religions

Voodoo & Santeria

New Religions: Wicca, neo-Paganism, Secular Humanism

Mysticism & Esotericism are the common core to all world religions

Theology: "Yes, Virginia there is a God!"
Thealogy: Is there a Heavenly Mother? The Sacred Feminine then & now

"They're Sacrificing Chickens!" Superstitious Religions today & yesterday

Integral Ken Wilber, the Deep Religion that Can "Save" Us All

Religions of the World T-Shirt: "Sh-t happens!"

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