religions

Presents brief overviews of eleven religious traditions, including Catholic, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Shaker, and Wicca; and features interviews with representatives from each religion in which they discuss the challenges and joys of their chosen faith.

Describes the major religions of the world and their founders.

Presents the differences and the similarities in religious faiths all over the world.

An illustrated examination of seven major world religions,including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Chinese traditions, and Japan traditions; with discussion of issues such as the roles of women, and the significance of saints.

Reference book on the six major world religions and their related traditions including history, selections from scriptures, places of worship, terminology, and denominations.

Published in conjunction with the BBC television series. Describes the similarities of different religions and the social, psychological, aesthetic, and political effects of each faith.

Examines religions of the ancient world, covering beliefs, methods of worship, gods and goddesses, festivals, rituals, and other related topics.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries on all the known gods and goddesses in recorded history, providing alternate spellings, notes on linguistically or functionally related names, and information on each god's origins and functions and the tribe or culture that worshipped it; also includes a bibliography.

A comprehensive guide to comparative religion that covers the development of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and discusses shared aspects and ideas of the faiths, covering sacred sites, prayer, sin, life after death, and other concepts.

Discusses the commonality of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and other religious teachings through the universal questions of: how should we live, what happens to us after we die, why does bad stuff happen to good folks, and how can we talk to God?.