By J. Gordon Melton

ISBN-10: 1610690257

ISBN-13: 9781610690256

This enormous, four-volume reference overviews major occasions and advancements in non secular historical past over the process greater than 5 millennia.

• offers fascinating sidebars to entries on such themes as monotheism and the matter of evil, the development of the Egyptian pyramids, Mesoamerican mythology, the legacy of Charlemagne, the lives of varied spiritual thinkers and leaders, the Hundred Years' warfare, the indigenous religions of South Africa, the second one nice Awakening, Potala Palace in Tibet, and plenty of others

• bargains a sweeping chronological presentation of religion and faith over 5 millennia that allows readers to determine the connections among old occasions and the evolution of assorted trust systems

• comprises an in depth collection of images that is helping readers visualize a few of the issues mentioned within the text

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