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Religions Of The World: The Illustrated Guide To Origins, Beliefs, Traditions & Festivals

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It is the most concise material I have found on the subject. While in school I used it for a reference book when writing papers, now I read through it when I am unsure about a religious practice. It clarifies any questions you might have on any given (major) religion.

This book is really beautiful! It helps the student and the teacher to explore the great wisdom traditions of the world. The illustrations are plentiful and lovely, the text easy to comprehend. A great book!

This book is one of the few books (along with calculus and other basic professional books) that I used in college and still use today.
The three main three religions; Judaism, Christianity and Islam, along with other philosophical and religious traditions are explained in a clear unbiased way. I, specifically, learned a lot about Taoism, Hinduism and Buddhism. Books of this sort help people understand each others' customs and motives and make tolerance an achievable task instead of an impossible one.

It covered the major religions and was accurate. I looked very closely at the Christian section, because I am one, to see how close to the truth that section was and I was amazed at the accuracy of it, considering how many denominations there are. That way I could breath a little easier when I read the rest of it. As a whole it seemed unbiased and was fairly easy to read. I think it's a good book for anybody for the person who know nothing about different religions to someone how needs a refresher coarse to the vet how needs to solidify his knowledge from another source.

The book contains colorful photos, appears well organized and thoroughly covers the major religions, in an unbiased manner.

This is an excellent book for someone interested in world religion, historical and modern. Well illustrated with good commentary.

The book is very thin and concentrates more on the major religions. I was hoping for more of an encyclopedia style reference of gods and belief systems.. It does have good pictures and I especially likes the section on Buddha!

The book I ordered is missing almost the entire chapter on Buddhism. All of the pictures are cut out and therefore most of the text is cut out. There's almost an entire page missing, the only thing that's left is a two inch segment that's part of a chart they [the previous owner] didn't destroy. I paid $11.97 and the condition was listed as Used- Good. If I had known an entire chapter had been missing, I would have looked for another copy.

What a great deal!! Paid less than $10 for this hard cover, great condition, with shipping!! I will be ordering books in used condition from now on! Thank you...
Rosie from Wisconsin

When I purchased this I believed it was another book that I had seen which was quite outstanding. This had some interesting information, but was not what I thought it was and didn't impart the sort of detail I was looking for.