This magisterial Norton Anthology, edited by world-renowned scholars under the direction of Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Miles, offers a portable library of more than 1,000 primary texts from the world's major religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, and Daoism (Volume 1); Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Volume 2). The anthology brings together foundational works--the Bhagavad Gita, the Daodejing, the Bible, the Qur'an--with the writings of scholars, seekers, believers, and skeptics whose voices over centuries have kept these religions vital. To help readers encounter strikingly unfamiliar texts with pleasure, this Norton Anthology provides accessible introductions, headnotes, annotations, pronouncing glossaries, maps, illustrations, and chronologies. It also includes a dazzling general introduction by Jack Miles that questions whether religion can be defined and illuminates how world religions came to be acknowledged and studied, absorbed and altered, understood and misunderstood. For readers of any religion or none, The Norton Anthology of World Religions opens new worlds that, as Miles writes, invite us all "to see others with a measure of openness, empathy, and good will...In that capacity lies the foundation of human sympathy and cultural wisdom."
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393062538
ISBN-13
9780393062533
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201566642
Product Key Features
Book Title
Norton Anthology of World Religions Vols. 1 & 2
Author
Jack Miles
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Comparative Religion, History
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Religion
Number of Pages
4000 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.8in
Item Height
5.1in
Item Width
6.6in
Item Weight
135.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Bl74.N67 2014
Reviews
Jack Miles is the religious writer of our time... [The Norton Anthology of World Religions is] an elegant and enormous collection.