Handy Religion Answer Book

Your Guide to the World's Major Religions One of the noblest and most useful tasks to which we can commit ourselves is a greater understanding of how and why people believe as they do. What people believe - and why they believe it - profoundly influences the way they act. Religious beliefs and cultural assumptions are often so intimately intertwined that it is rarely, if ever, possible to disentangle them. The Handy Religion Answer Book is an easy-to-use comparative guide for anyone seeking a basic understanding of the world's major religions. Handy Religion answers more than 800 questions related to history, leaders, organization, symbols, beliefs, membership, and much more on: * Judaism * Christianity * Islam * Buddhism * Hinduism * Confucianism * Taoism * Shinto Handy Religion includes 100 illustrations, suggestions for further reading, and a global timeline of major events in religious history.Renard, John is the author of 'Handy Religion Answer Book' with ISBN 9780681047167 and ISBN 068104716X.