World Religions: a Historical Approach
- List Price: $55.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Edition: 0003
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press
- Publish date: 01/01/2005
Description:
This general survey of the world's religions, both currently practiced and extinct, provides an account of the development, doctrines, scriptures, and practices of 11 major religious traditions, including Roman religion, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, African traditions, and American Indian traditions. Nigosian (world religions, U. of Toronto, Canada) incorporates, b&w photographs, maps, and time lines to enhance the descriptions in each chapter of the origins, historical growth, and major observances and festivals of each faith, using both traditional viewpoints and academic opinions.
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