In this, his first new book since the best-selling God: A Guide for the Perplexed (Oneworld, 2002), Keith Ward turns his attention to the role - and the validity of religion over the centuries and in the world today. His erudite yet informative and factual narrative outlines the various attempts that have been made throughout history to explain religion, including the anthropological, psychological, sociological and philosophical theories of key thinkers from Immanuel Kant to Sigmund Freud. Adopting a comparative approach, the book covers all the religious traditions from West and East alike, concluding in a compelling manner that not only are the world faiths much more than a series of theoretical perspectives, but that, in the face of discord and violence, religious understanding retains more resonance than ever before within our global community.
- ISBN10 1851683372
- ISBN13 9781851683376
- Publish Date 29 March 2004
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 May 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oneworld Publications
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English