How the Great Religions Began [Unabridged] [Paperback]

Joseph Gaer (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 237 pages
• Publisher: Signet (May 1, 1954)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451077644
• ISBN-13: 978-0451077646
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,029,223 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Old text still interesting (if anachronistic), November 4, 2002

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Patrick Crane (Leysin, Switzerland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How the Great Religions Began (A Dodd, Mead quality paperback) (Paperback)

Originally published in 1929, this book is surprisingly "modern" in its appraoch to world religions. It is certianly not brilliantly academic, but it attempts to take a broad view of religions from all over the world in all time periods. It tells stories about all of the major religions, without being critical of beliefs or giving too much credence to stories which require faith. Of interest to the casual scholar of religion, or someone who wants a different perspective on their or another faith.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Guide to the Mind of Humanity, February 19, 2004

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Cameron Green (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How the Great Religions Began (Paperback)

Like it or not statistics say that 96% of humanity consider themselves religious. A huge percentage of the subscribe to a handful of faiths, buddhism, confucianism, taoism, judaism, islam and christianity. If you would like to understand the mind of humanity, what drives it in so much of its day, I'm not sure you can do so without at least a basic understanding of the religions which they follow. If you would understand the world, you should read a book like this, in fact this one is pretty good even if Amazon doesn't have a picture for it, so perhaps read this one.

5.0 out of 5 stars how the great religions began, December 19, 2011

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This review is from: How the Great Religions Began [New and Revised Edition] (Hardcover)

this is a great book for everyone to read -- it shows there are more than one religion in this world