Flames of Faith: A Thumbnail Guide to World Religions

The horrific events of September 11, 2001 forever shattered the illusion that the only religion which matters is our own. When the hijacked airliners flew into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a lonely Pennsylvania hillside that morning, the world realized with chilling clarity that the religious imaginations of people in far away lands now mattered to all. Some sort of understanding of the world's great religious traditions is now essential to our political security, perhaps even to our own survival. We need to understand, roughly at least, what other people believe and why they act the way they do, if nothing else to defend ourselves from future attacks. Comparative religion is no longer merely an academic endeavor.Cunyus, John is the author of 'Flames of Faith: A Thumbnail Guide to World Religions', published 2006 under ISBN 9780595417674 and ISBN 0595417671.