Code, Cult, Community-structure. Creed refers to the cognitive aspect of a religion; it is everything that goes into the "explanation" of the ultimate meaning of life. Code of Behavior, or ethics, includes all the rules and customs of action that somehow follow from one aspect or another of the Creed. Cult means all the ritual activities that relate the follower to one aspect or another of the Transcendent, either directly or indirectly, prayer being an example of the former and certain formal behavior toward representatives of the Transcendent, such as priests, of the latter. Community-Structure refers to the relationships among the followers. This can vary widely, from a very egalitarian relationship, as among Quakers, through a "republican" structure favored by Presbyterians, to a monarchical one, as some Hasidic Jews have with their Rebbe. The Transcendent, as the root of the word indicates, means "that which goes beyond" the everyday, the ordinary, the surface experience of reality. It can mean spirits, gods, a Personal God, an Impersonal God, Emptiness,etc. This volume looks at the ways we humans have developed to study religion. It also examines the new age in human consciousness that is now dawning: The Age of Global Dialogue, a radically new consciousness that shifts the ways we understand everything in life, including r