A Beginner's Guide to the Study of Religion (2nd edition)

As with many volumes of this kind, it has originated in the US and is heavily geared to education systems there. The opening chapter, giving introductory information as to why one might choose to study religion are more generally transferable to other countries, but one is left sometimes wondering if it is offering insights that the reader will already have, in other words, if someone has decided to study religion and picks up this book, do they want so much detail about why they might want to study the subject, when they have already made that choice?

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