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The Illustrated World's Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions
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Average Rating:  out of 27 Reviews
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $13.50
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Manufacturer: HarperOne
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EAN (European Article Number): 9780060674403
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Huston Smith
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Publisher: HarperOne
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291
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Publication Date: 1995-09-22
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Retaining all the beloved qualities of Huston Smith's classic The Religions of Man and the current fully revised and updated The World's Religions, this stunning pictorial presentation refines the text to its wonderful essentials. In detailed, absorbing, richly illustrated, and highly readable chapters on Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity and primal religions, we find refreshing and fascinating presentations of both the differences and the similarities among the worldwide religious traditions. The approach is at once classic and contemporary, retaining all the empathy, eloquence and erudition that millions of readers love about the earlier editions, while being edited and designed for a contemporary general readership. This delightful marriage of winsome text and remarkable pictures vividly brings to life the scope and vision of Huston Smith's expertise and insight.
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Customer Reviews
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Review Summary: A Beautiful Book! |
Date: 2007-10-06 |
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Details: This is an excellent overview of the world's major religions, well researched and clearly written so that even a novice can understand. Lush photographs, color and black & white, appear on almost every page, illustrating interesting and unique specifics of each religion - i.e., gods, body decorations, services, icons, etc. Very satisfied with this purchase! |
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Review Summary: Excellent |
Date: 2007-09-10 |
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Details: This book was exactly what we ordered and came in a timely manner. It was also in excellent condition. |
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Review Summary: Anyone wishing to be enlightened spiritually or culturally is in for a treat. |
Date: 2007-08-01 |
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Details: This book is a must have! Smith beautifully illustrates religions from around the globe in a respectable manner that is easily understandable to all. Anyone wishing to be enlightened spiritually or culturally is in for a treat. |
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Review Summary: An interesting introduction to the living mainstream religions of the World |
Date: 2007-07-25 |
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Details: I've had this book since my confirmation, but finally I had the time to read it. I've seen the highly approving quote from Smith about Guenon, so this certainly raised my interest enough to pull it out of my shelf and put it in my "to-read"-pile of books. The book is more or less evenly divided between images, art and text. My edition of the book uses very little annotations, but it didn't really bother me, since there is very little you feel the need to check out in such an introductory book.
The content of the book is quickly summarized; it's a very quick introduction to the various living religions of man, dealing quite objectively with them all, apart from the obvious holy cow of the "West"; Judaism. He appears to my biased eyes to be quite the philosemite; there is just no thing our desert friends haven't contributed to the West. He states somewhere in the book something of the nature that without them we wouldn't have any culture, religion or world-view at all, so I guess we would have to be satisfied with the tiny contributions of Mozart, Wagner, Shakespeare, Hamsun and all the other gentiles of the West.
The book was very interesting, and apart from the minor criticism I've voiced, and the fact that it is of course very shallow and bring relatively little depth (that is though, of course, the point of the book) I highly recommend it as an adequate completely basic introduction to this highly important field. As an additional bonus is all the mentioned religious art and images strewn throughout this short but effective study.
(I read a different edition) |
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Review Summary: Great reference book |
Date: 2006-11-03 |
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Details: This book is used as a reference for an Episcopal Church Christian Formation class. It is well written
and includes wonderful photos. |
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