Religion has shaped every culture and continues to exert an influence on all our lives. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Religions demonstrates how the world's major belief systems grew out of particular cultures, and how they both influenced and reatced to the prevailing social, political and economic circumstances.

Written by a team of leading academics headed by Professor John Bowker, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Religions provides an authoritative yet accessible introduction to world religions and creates an awareness of the major world events that formed religious history.

- An indispensable, one-step reference to world religions
- A comprehensive review of religious history from the earliest times to the present-ady
- The world's faiths placed into social, political and economic context.

- Introduction
- Indian Religions and the Hindu Tradition
- Jainism
- Sikhism
- Buddhism
- Chinese Religion
- Korean Religion
- Japanese Religions
- Judaism
- Zarathustra and the Parsis
,etc.