A History of the World's Religions

By David S. Noss and Blake R. Grangaard

Book Overview

A History of the World's Religions bridges the interval between the founding of religions and their present state, and gives students an accurate look at the religions of the world by including descriptive and interpretive details from original source materials. Refined by over forty years of dialogue and correspondence with religious experts and practitioners around the world, A History of the World's Religions is widely regarded as the hallmark of scholarship, fairness, and accuracy in its field. It is also the most thorough yet manageable history of world religion available in a single volume. A History of the World's Religions examines the following topics:

　

Some Primal and Bygone Religions

The Religions of South Asia

The Religions of East Asia

The Religions of the Middle East

　

This fourteenth edition is fully updated throughout with new images and inset text boxes to help guide students and instructors. Complete with figures, timelines and maps, this is an ideal resource for anyone wanting an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the world's religions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138211680
• ISBN13: 9781138211681
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 658 Pages
• Weight: 3.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.5" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Logical consistency requires applying reason and logic to relgion too

Professor John Allen Paulos' application of reason and logic to analyze and evaluate the arguments made to "prove" the existence of God, is the very methodology used by most rational people in areas involving topics outside of religion, including believers, adamant in their insistence that God exists. Why then do most - including "true" believers - refuse to apply reason and logic, which they will unhesitatingly use to make rational decisions and come to valid conclusions in every day life, but not in regards to religion? The powerful emotion, fear, often makes the normally rational, irrational. Perhaps Anton Chekhov says it best: "Man is what he believes."

Good text

Another good text from a top notch class I decided to keep for reference. The class did use supplemental materials but this is a good overall source for info on the historic origins and development of world religions.

Alive

A truly excellent, penetrating, work. David Noss provides an opportunity for the reader to personally shake hands with each major religion: each is introduced with unobtrusive eloquence and exactitude; each is treated with the utmost respect; and so is the reader accorded this same, unpretentious, sacred reverence. One might gain the impression that a very sane and learned scholar in each religion covered is laying out for you the fundamentals and origins of his beliefs and faith, in a non-proselytizing way, for you to see. Excellent!

The best book about religions!

The key words for the book could be as the following -- Tactful, sophisticated, academic, reader's friendly, accurate, intriguing, inspiring, comprehensive. One can get proud of the Mankind history - not only wars and dirty politics did we have but the heights of spiritual life, in many forms and manifestations.