Overview
Anthology of World Religions explores the world's religious traditions by combining substantial overviews of their history, beliefs, and practices with selections from their texts and scriptures and commentary by contemporary practitioners and scholars. It covers each major religion's history, teachings, founder, leaders, practices, and the factors that are now challenging and changing it--secularism, modernism, pluralism, science, the status of women, and sectarian or factional conflicts. The introductory chapter reviews various approaches to the study of religion, defines religious terms and concepts, discusses theories of religion, and distinguishes between the insider and outsider perspectives on religious traditions.
Full Product Details
Author: Lewis Vaughn
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 19.10cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.862kg
ISBN: 9780197617502
ISBN 10: 0197617506
Pages: 528
Publication Date: 28 August 2024
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""A comprehensive and expansive collection that allows for endless comparison and discovery, within and between faith traditions, and that assists students in understanding the development of those traditions across time as reflected in their own documents.""--Dereck Daschke, Truman State University ""Within the cacophony of religious voices throughout history and today, Vaughn's Anthology of World Religions is a steady guide. Anyone seeking to orient themselves to one of the most pervasive aspects of the human condition would be well served by this book.""--James Joiner, Northern Arizona University"
A comprehensive and expansive collection that allows for endless comparison and discovery, within and between faith traditions, and that assists students in understanding the development of those traditions across time as reflected in their own documents. * Dereck Daschke, Truman State University * Within the cacophony of religious voices throughout history and today, Vaughn's Anthology of World Religions is a steady guide. Anyone seeking to orient themselves to one of the most pervasive aspects of the human condition would be well served by this book. * James Joiner, Northern Arizona University *
Author Information
Lewis Vaughn is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including The Power of Critical Thinking, Seventh Edition (2022); Philosophy Here and Now, Fourth Edition (2022); Writing Philosophy, Second Edition (2018); and Living Philosophy, Third Edition (2021), all published by Oxford University Press.
