Anthology of World Religions: Sacred Texts and Contemporary Perspectives

by Lewis Vaughn

Book Overview

Anthology of World Religions explores the world's religious traditions by combining substantial overviews of their history, beliefs, and practices with selections from their texts and scriptures and commentary by contemporary practitioners and scholars. It covers each major religion's history, teachings, founder, leaders, practices, and the factors that are now challenging and changing it--secularism, modernism, pluralism, science, the status of women,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195332369
• ISBN13: 9780195332360
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.1"