Reviews for Listy Z Nieba

The average rating for Listy Z Nieba based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-01-02 00:00:00 Joseph Marquez Lewis M. Hopfe, Mark R. Woodward, & Brett Hendrickson�s Religions of the World is a comprehensive text that deals with many aspects of world religions. The book considers the following: 1) What culture produced a particular religion? 2) What�s the name of its religious founder? 3) What is the religion�s sacred text? 4) What are the major historical developments of the faith? 5) How do the participants practice their religion? 6) What rituals and behaviors shape the lives of the believers? The authors explored various regions of the world, and explained they are conceivably thousands of religions. They focused on religions originating in Africa and the Americas, India, China and Japan, and the Middle East. They brought to light many of these faith traditions that have been neglected, and demonized in the studies on the world religions, especially in Africa and the Americas. The authors have therefore attempted to correct this imbalance by including these neglected religious traditions, rituals, and customs.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-05-12 00:00:00 Marc Alston There is a tendency to disregard religion--either all of them or all of them but for one's own. But I think where you fall on the religio-graphic world scheme should hardly influence your willingness to learn about other beliefs. Even in our age, religion is an extremely pertinent topic, as it influences politics and worldviews of individuals, governments, and would-be governments. Religious understanding is fundamental to harmony and understanding and, most importantly, education. Beyond that, even if one is not religious, there is a lot of value to be taken from reading the literature of various civilizations and hold in one's hands a literary compilation in an appreciation of what Carl Jung called the "collective subconscious." All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed being introduced to the major world religions, especially Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, and Baha'i (having mostly been exposed to Abrahamic monotheism beforehand).