The World’s Religions 2nd edition

This is a new edition of a standard text which sets out to describe how the religions of the world have developed, and place them in their social context. The first edition appeared in 1989 (RR 93/11 for a subsequent paperback reprint), just before the changes in the world order brought about by the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. Here the chapter on Eastern Europe has been extensively re‐written and there is a new chapter surveying the standing of religion at the end of the twentieth century.

An introductory chapter attempts a definition of religion and explains the...