The World's Religions
2nd Edition
Published on 28. October 1994
Book
Hardback
464 pages
978-0-7459-2745-9 (ISBN)
Description
This comprehensive guide to the world's religions past and present is a revised edition which concludes with an additional section looking at today's world and questions facing religion today - relativism, syncretism, pluralism, fundamenetalism and nationalism, secularization, Church and state. The quick reference "Rapid factfinder" has been fully updated. So too has the whole text, along with new specially commissioned charts and graphics.
More details
Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
SPCK Publishing
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
100 b&w and 100 colour photographs, charts, maps
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 155 mm
Weight
1142 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7459-2745-9 (9780745927459)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
The development of religion; the ancient religions (Egypt, Greece, Rome); the primal religions, illustrated from around the world; living religions of the East (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Parsis, Sikhs); people of a book (Judaism, Islam); Christ at the centre (Christianity).