religions

Explores the importance of values, and the role they play in religious beliefs.

Photographs and simple text describe the various ways people express their faith, such as praying, singing, and helping others.

Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.

Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.

Contains articles that discuss the history and beliefs of approximately one hundred religions active in the world in the early twenty-first century, evaluates each from the perspective of Christianity, and features a dictionary of related words.

In this sweeping narrative that takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright unveils a hidden pattern that the great monotheistic faiths have followed as they have evolved. Through the prisms of archaeology, theology, and evolutionary psychology, Wright's findings overturn basic assumptions about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and are sure to cause controversy. He explains why spirituality has a role today, and why science, contrary to conventional wisdom, affirms the validity of the religious quest. And this previously unrecognized evolutionary logic points not toward continued religious extremism, but future harmony.--From publisher description.

Teaches about religious diversity and looks at what world religions have in common, like systems of beliefs, special holidays and celebrations, holy writings, and sacred places.

Explores the history of the world from the perspective of Judaism, one of the oldest surviving religions, examining Jewish culture, looking at the religion's sacred texts and holidays, and discussing the two centers of Jewish life--the synagogue and the home.

Explores the history of the world from the perspective of Islam, explaining Islamic culture through the daily life and rituals of Muslims around the world, and chronicling Islam's rise of the Ottoman Empire between the ninth and twelfth centuries to the twentieth.

Explores the history of the world from the perspective of Hinduism, one of the oldest and largest religions, discussing its origins, rituals and customs, and impact on literature.