Product Description
For one/two-semester courses in World Religions; and Comparative Religions and Introduction to Religion courses.This clearly written survey of the modern religious world explores the development, doctrines, and practices of today’s major faiths–both traditional and modern religious movements. Sensitive and thought-provoking, it explores contemporary socio-political issues such as religion and materialism, the role of women, and fundamentalism. The extensive illustr… More >>
#1 by Anonymous on May 31, 2010 - 3:27 pm
There is a rich amount of knowledge; I will keep this in my library.
It is baptized in feminist views. That would be okay except it isn’t supposed to be a platform for feminists; it is suppose to show the richness of the various religions.
It is overly concerned with defending or proving the importance of women; this often takes up to much space pushing out writing that would be more informative of the actual heart of the religion (which would be better then the dispute over women which is such a small fraction of what religion is about. I would be just as unnerved if it focused on how important men where to religions…. it seems to miss the point; the point being the religion itself be it from/to men or women.)
There is to much of it that comes across as feminist propaganda (can you be truly sympathetic to a religion if you take modern feminist propaganda to say Islam or past Christian monasteries where women were not allowed or where at least kept separate from the males?)
The book is corrupted by (as written on the back of the book)”Increased coverage of the role of women in each tradition.” What a waste of space! I could have been learning more about the religions.
Your expecting a loving look into religion on the religions own terms… then why, I ask, is their a reading included dedicated to the idea of God as a female within the Christian Religion? It might as well be including excerpts from the writings of Martin Luther as representative of Catholicism; they are clearly not apart of the Religion except as fringes that are better understood as protesting what is taught in the religion itself.
Rating: 3 / 5
#2 by Adriana Brooks on May 31, 2010 - 3:59 pm
The book is in really good condition, and the vendor was out of town but he sent an email apologizing for the delay. After that I got it right away.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by betina weeks on May 31, 2010 - 6:55 pm
I needed this book for class guess what class is over take to long for delivery want order online again not from this person are amazon
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by R. Townsend on May 31, 2010 - 9:27 pm
THE BOOK WAS $100
BUT I GOT THE BOOK FOR ONLY $80
$20 CHEAPER FOR A COLLEGE STUDENT
Rating: 4 / 5
#5 by Christy Prather on May 31, 2010 - 11:00 pm
The book itself is fine, but I’m dissapointed that Amazon had two copies of the fifth edition left the day I purchased the book, and I didn’t realize that there would be a newer edition the next week. My class eneded up using the sixth edition.
Rating: 3 / 5