World Religions

Name: World Religions
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9780241487389
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The Great Faiths Explored and Explained

By John Bowker

Series: DK Compact Culture Guides

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World Religions by John Bowker provides an insightful exploration of the world's major faiths, their beliefs, rituals, and cultural impacts. The book spans diverse religious traditions, offering a comparative analysis while highlighting the historical and social contexts of each. It serves as an educational guide to understanding how religion shapes and influences societies across the globe.
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You might enjoy this book if you have an interest in exploring the diverse beliefs and practices that shape the world's faith traditions. It provides insightful overviews of major religions, offering both historical and contemporary perspectives that deepen understanding and appreciation of global spirituality.

World Religions

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An essential guide to religion that explores and explains the history and key teachings of the world's main religions - Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism - alongside ancient and little-known beliefs.

Learn everything you need to know about the central practices, important figures, and key teachings of many different religions.

Each of the major faiths - including Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, and Islam - is examined in detail through its sacred texts, epic imagery, key beliefs, and religious artefacts. Entries also explore other faiths from Zoroastrianism - the oldest "living" religion - to the alternative beliefs of the modern era, all of which are set into the context of the political, social, and cultural climates from which they emerged.

Compelling and accessible, World Religions is the perfect guide for students of religious study, or anyone interested in the ideas of ancient and present-day faiths and religious philosophies.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241487389

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 05 August 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: DK

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 29.0mm

Width: 198.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 1211g

Pages: 352

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Children’s, Teenage and Educational Education & Reference John Bowker Non-Fiction Penguin Books Religion & Spirituality Science & Nature Series: DK Compact Culture Guides

About the Author

John Bowker was Dean of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1984 to 1991 and is currently a Fellow of Gresham College, London and Honorary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral. He is also Adjunct Professor of Religion at North Carolina State University. Professor Bowker's many books include the DK titles God- A Brief History and The Complete Bible Handbook. He lives in Cambridge.