RELG: World - Softcover

1. Beginning Your Study of World Religions. 2. Encountering Indigenous Religions: Ways to Tribal Life. 3. Encountering Hinduism: Many Paths to Liberation. 4. Encountering Jainism: The Austere Way to Liberation. 5. Encountering Buddhism: The Middle Path to Liberation. 6. Encountering Sikhism: The Way of God's Name. 7. Encountering Daoism and Confucianism: Two Views of the Eternal Way. 8. Encountering Shinto: The Way of the Kami. 9. Encountering Zoroastrianism: The Way of the One Wise Lord. 10. Encountering Judaism: The Way of God's Chosen People. 11. Encountering Christianity: The Way of Salvation in Jesus Christ. 12. Encountering Islam: The Straight Path of the One God. 13. Encountering New Religious Movements: Modern Ways to Alternative Meanings. Index.

Created through a "student-tested, faculty-approved" review process with over 500 students and faculty, RELG: World is an engaging and accessible solution to accommodate the diverse lifestyles of today's learners at a value-based price. Brief, clear, inexpensive, and intensely visual, RELG: World is the first 4LTR Press text in this market. The price and visually engaging 4LTR Press treatment will attract students (without repelling instructors), and the tear-out Chapter in Review cards will encourage retention. If instructors wish to cover further primary sources , they have the option of creating a custom edition incorporating selections from Van Voorst's best-selling Anthology Of World Scriptures. This eBook will also include numerous annotated links to interactive maps, videos, audio pronunciations, Google Earth[registered] explorations, and primary sources. Professors are always looking for ways to make religions practiced in distant places and times "come alive" for their students. Relg: World's framing of different religions as encounters between the religions' adherents and individuals like their students resonates with their needs. In both content and design, RELG: World aims to meet course challenges of lower cost, brevity, and relevance to students.