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Pub. Date
2011
Description
Religion scholar Prothero asserts that it is time to replace nave hopes of interreligious unity with deeper knowledge of religious differences. A bold polemical response to a generation of misguided scholarship, "God Is Not One" creates a new context for understanding religion in the 21st century and disproves the assumptions about the way the world's religions work.
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Pub. Date
1996
Description
All the fundamental themes of the world's major religions--from Amish to Zen--are presented in this thorough, yet accessible study of religious tradition. Here are detailed narrative histories of the six great religious traditions of East and West--Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam--along with information about related traditions, including Sikhism, Confucianism, Gnosticism, Zoroastrianism, and the various elements that compose...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"A Doubter's Guide to World Religions presents each of the world's five major religions and carefully outlines the history, belief systems, and spiritual practices of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam so that the interested and curious doubters can explore their similarities and differences"--
89) Our religions
Pub. Date
c1993
Description
Published for the 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions, this is the first introduction to the topic in which renowned scholars present their own traditions--Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--from both contemporary and historical perspectives.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Who believes what: The big book of world religions introduces young readers to the five major religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, in a simple, visually engaging book that combines a search-and-find aspect with thoroughly researched information about the histories, places of worship, festivals and celebrations, gods, and religious leaders and more of each major religion. Each religion is introduced in a double-page spread...
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
The Religions Book explains in a clear, accessible way more than 100 of the most important theological ideas, from those bound up in the earliest cultures to others that have emerged in the last few hundred years, along with all of the main tenets of the world's major faiths. In doing so, it considers key issues such as the problem of defining good and evil, the significance of suffering, creation and the afterlife ("Why are we here?" and "Why do...
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
The United States is a deeply religious nation, yet many Americans-even the most devout-are shockingly ignorant about religion. Can you: Name the four gospels? Name a sacred text of Hinduism? Name the holy book of Islam? Name the Ten Commandments? Name the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism? If you can't, you're not alone.
97) Religions
Author
Pub. Date
[1973]
Description
Discusses the history, practices, and beliefs of the five major religions in the world today: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
100) Eyewitness religion
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Series
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Introduces the history, philosophies, and rituals of various world religions including Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism, Zoroastrianism, and Christianity.
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