Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, Volume 4: Confirmation - Drama

The opening entries examine Confirmation in early Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Protestant traditions, and Eastern churches, with attention to baptism, laying on of hands, anointing, ecclesiastical authority, and the development of sacramental practice. Subsequent articles treat ethical and social concepts such as Conformity, Conscience, Consciousness, Consistency, Consolation, Constancy, Consumption, Contempt, Contentment, Contingency, Continuity, Contract, Controversy, and Conversion. These entries explore moral psychology, philosophical theories of consciousness, economic ethics, legal obligation, religious experience, and theological transformation.

The volume also includes major studies of Confucian Religion and Confucius, ecclesiastical movements such as Congregationalism and Connexionism, and Christian institutions including the Coptic Church. Historical and legal topics include Constantine, Consecration, Consanguinity, Coroners, and Corruption and Bribery. The final portion supplied is devoted to Cosmogony and Cosmology, comparing American, Babylonian, Buddhist, and other cosmological systems. The Buddhist sections discuss world-systems, Mount Meru, heavens and hells, cycles of cosmic formation and destruction, and cosmological interpretations preserved in Buddhist literary traditions.