This substantially revised and updated edition features maps, charts, and more than two hundred photographs, many in color. An international group of expert scholars sympathetically discuss the world's major religious traditions (including Buddhism, Baha'i, and Jainism) and new religious movements.
The contributing editors include Diana L. Eck, Robert Kisala, Nicholas de Lange, Mikael Rothstein, Lamin O. Sanneh, Garry W. Trompf, and Linda Woodhead.
Praise for the Print Edition
A sumptuous handbook.
—The Times Literary Supplement
A moving and illuminating book. I am aware of nothing on the market remotely comparable in scope, balance, readability and sensitivity.
—Church Times
Additional Details
- Title: Introduction to World Religions
- Author: Christopher Partridge
- Publisher: Fortress Press, 2005
About the Editor
Christopher Partridge is Professor of Contemporary Religion at University College Chester, Cheshire, England. He is editor of New Religions: A Guide (2004) and the Dictionary of Contemporary Religion in the Western World (2002).
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