xx, 1204 pages : 24 cm; Journeying through religious traditions: religion and the study of religion --Religions of Africa: traditions in transformation /E. Thomas Lawson --Religions of Mesoamerica: cosmovision and ceremonial centers /Davíd Carrasco --Native religions of North America: the power of visions and fertility /Åke Hultkrantz --Judaism: revelation and traditions /Michael A. Fishbane --Christianity: a way of salvation /Sandra Sizer Frankiel --Islam and the Muslim community /Frederick M. Denny --Hinduism: experiments in the sacred /David M. Knipe --Buddhism: the path to Nirvana /Robert C. Lester --Religions of China: the world as a living system /Daniel L. Overmyer --Religions of Japan: many traditions within one sacred way /H. Byron Earhart.; Now in one volume, the ten volumes of the outstanding "Religious Traditions of the World " series, written by leading experts, provides individual studies exploring the richness and variety of important religions from around the world.; 

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