A World Religious Reader - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 063118239X ISBN 13: 9780631182399

Publisher: Blackwell Pub, 1996

Synopsis

This Reader, now in its revised second edition, combines passages from the scriptures with classic statements from major thinkers and institutions, ranging from the Bhagavad Gita to John Lennon and Martin Luther King.

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This single volume grew out of the editor's course taught at the University of Exeter, England. His aim is to help students enter into dialog with each of nine religious traditions. To this purpose, he includes scriptural texts and excerpts from experts, scholars, and sometimes converts. There are sections on Hinduism, Buddhism, Chinese religion, Shintoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Sikhism. Secular humanism is also represented, thus providing a nonreligious worldview for contrast. Markham's selections are necessarily brief but give a good balance of traditional and modern views. Summaries for review and a list of comparative questions for class discussion make this book a solid supplement to any college undergraduate course in comparative religion. Recommended for undergraduate academic libraries.?C. Robert Nixon, MLS, Lafayette, Ind.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Blackwell Pub
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 063118239X
• ISBN 13: 9780631182399
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Markham Ian S.