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Our Religions: The Seven World Religions Introduced by Preeminent Scholars from Each Tradition
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Product Description
An essential introduction to the world's living religions by experts from each tradition -- published in conjunction with the 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #171613 in Books
- Published on: 1994-08-05
- Released on: 1994-08-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 560 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"A coherent and literate compendium and a valuable addition to any library." -- Brain/Mind Bulletin
"I never thought that I would live to see an introductory text on [the world's religions] that I would (almost) be content to see retire my own. . . . It seems splendid in every respect." -- Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions
"It is a distinctive feature of the book that each of the great world religions is described by someone who is committed to that religion and lives within it, but who is at the same time fully at home in the modern Western academic study of religion . . . insiders who can speak to outsiders on the common wavelength of our contemporary academic culture." -- John Hick, author of An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent
"Sharma has not only created a book of a new kind but . . . has, with his collaborators, brought it off brilliantly. . . . Thought-provoking and soul-stretching." -- The Gazette, Montreal
"Viewpoints enough to keep the reader alert and engrossed." -- Christian Century
From the Publisher
Leading experts in the great living religions present their own faith traditions.
About the Author
Editor Arvind Sharma is professor of religion at McGill University in Montreal. Born in India, he completed his doctoral studies at Harvard, where he studied under the great religious historian Wilfred Cantwell Smith at the Center for the Study of World Religions. He has taught at the University of Sydney, Australia, as a colleague of the famous comparative religionist, Eric J. Sharpe, has edited many important volumes and journals in world religions, and is one of the great international goodwill ambassadors promoting irenic dialogue among the leading scholars of the various world religions.
