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This book was exactly what we ordered and came in a timely manner. It was also in excellent condition.
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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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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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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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I'm about two thirds of the way through the book and I have to say that it's well ballanced and well written. The author takes great care in presenting accurate and unbiased descriptions of the world's religions. I'd recommend it for anyone trying to gain an understanding of what each of these religions represent.
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