Living Religions (9th Edition)

by Mary Pat Fisher

Book Overview

KEY BENEFIT Living Religions is a sympathetic approach to what is living and significant in the world's major religious traditions and in various new movements that are arising. KEY TOPICS This book... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0205956408
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Book!!

I really enjoyed reading this book. It was easy to understand and well organized. I was able to learn a lot about Eastern Religions with this book that I got an 'A' in my Religions class. Yay!

Excellent Primer on the World's Religions

An excellent introduction to the world's primary religious and wisdom traditions: their origins, major tenets, peculiarities and similarities across the spectrum, and contemporary manifestations. Along with the companion book, An Anthology of Living Religions, this text offers a solid study in the world's religions.

This book is an AWESOME resource!

I have never read a religious studies book so focued and well researched. Mary Pat Fisher truly shows she knows what she it writing about. This book not only provides thought-provoking questions at the end of each chapter, but it is also full of wonderful illustrations! A picture really is worth a thousand words. I couldn't be happier with it.

Living Religions Review

I found the book to be very informative. I also enjoyed having the CD to review the the chapters. That was a plus for me.

Best I've Seen

I teach world religions and have used many different textbooks. This book has always been among the best, and the fourth edition is definitely the best--has made a lot of substantial improvements over earlier editions. Fisher is sympathetic, engaging, accessible and yet scholarly, up-to-date, thorough, and accurate. Many great pictures and side box interviews really help students understand the material, and so does the website with on-line tests and web links associated with the book chapters. If you saw an earlier edition and weren't terribly impressed, you need to take a new look at the 4th edition! Finally, a world religion survey to please both students and professors! Hard to improve on.