ISBN10: 0028971353, ISBN13: 9780028971353, [publisher: Macmillan Pub. Co, US] Hardcover Through 2734 articles by international scholars, the world's major religion s of Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam are explained in hundreds o f articles that are almost like small encyclopaedias themselves. It provide s a Who's Who of religious history - the gods and goddesses, the deities an d demons, of world mythology, as well as the men and women who have affecte d the course of religion - and human history - as priests, popes, and proph ets; saints, scholars and shamans; reformers and revolutionaries; teachers and theologians.
[Tokyo, TKY, Japan] [Publication Year: 1993]