Offers more than three thousand articles on the world of religion.

"This third edition identifies and clarifies a thousand central theological terms, providing necessary information about their origin, the history of their usag

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Globalization and high-speed communication put twenty-first century people in contact with adherents to a wide variety of world religions, but usually, valuable