Worldviews: Crosscultural Explorations of Human Beliefs

by Ninian Smart

Book Overview

This book offers a balanced, wide-ranging, and realistic approach to the full range of worldviews, showing how, whether religious or secular, they define the human values that drive the engines of both continuity and change worldwide. It shows readers the dynamics of each tradition, and emphasizes that although the various traditions may all share similar aspects, they each assign varying levels of importance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130209805
• ISBN13: 9780130209801
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

great

I received the book very soon after I had ordered it. There were no problems with shipping time, I think it was even early. And the condition was great. Thanks!

great for students

This book is a good guide for those seeking more enlightenment about the religious world. this book was my major resource for the religious studies course I was taking. It provides an overview for approaching the different aspect and dimensions of religion as a student of Religion Studies, or as a seeker of truth. The book though gets rather confusing when it refers to the many religions' practices and terminology which I am not accustomed to, thus to make the book more bountiful, I used in joint Huston Smith's book "The World's Religions".