HarperCollins Concise Guide to World Religions: The A-To-Z Encyclopedia of All the Major Religious Traditions

by Ioan Petru Culianu, Hillary S. Wiesner, Ioan P. Couliano, et al.

Book Overview

The definitive dictionary of the world's religions, compiled by two of the 20th century's most distinguished religion scholars. This highly accessible resource distils Mircea Eliade's lifework of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060621516
• ISBN13: 9780060621513
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: HarperOne
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A Historical Guide, Not A Religious One

This book is very detailed and 'concise'. The two readers who have reviewed it looked at it as a religious book, when really it is a brilliant historical account of the basic religions of the world. And looked at from that perspective, it deserves 5 stars, because you can never detect any biasedness while reading it. You can't tell what religion the writers belong to, which gives this book a distance which is necessary when studying one of the greatest emotional tools of the world: religion.