Exploring the Religions of Our World

A new appendix offers background on major American Indigenous religions, atheists, agnostics, and the rising class of “nones” in the United States. You will continue to find information on Christian denominations with origins in the US as well. The updated maintains its easy-to-follow format of five sections per chapter—history, scriptures, sacred times, sacred places, and comparison with Catholicism. Additionally, the sequence begins with chapters on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—the religious traditions students are most familiar with—and also includes chapters on Hinduism, Buddhism, Chinese religions, and Japanese religions explained through the lens of their own beliefs and traditions.