One world, many religions covers the history, beliefs, and practices of judaism, christianity, islam, hinduism, buddhism, confucianism, and taoism. List of world religions and founders, religious books. So, what are the holy books of the five major world religions. Judaism, christianity, islam, hinduism, buddhism, confucianism and taoism. Hinduism, buddhism, confucianism, taoism, islam, judaism, and christianity. This book was intended to be a brief survey without an indepth analysis. List of world religions and founders, religious books, place of worship posted by admin on 12 comments the article below explains the list of world religions, details of origin, details about their godmessiahprophet and other interesting facts associated with different religions. As i said before this book tells about the different religions over the world, as i read i saw that smith not only talked about the meaning of the religions, but he also talked about some cases huston smith was the one that wrote this book. While the number of living religions is staggering, nearly 75 percent of the population belongs to one of five religions. Leading seller of christian books, bibles, gifts, homeschool products, church supplies, dvds, toys and more. Our great wisdom traditions was originally published in 1958. Religious understanding is as important today than any other time in history. Five of the world s largest religious manuscripts, from devils bible to buddhist labyrinth.
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