Required reading in introductory religion classes for decades, Huston Smith’s well written The World’s Religions goes beyond descriptions of seven major religions and reveals the wisdom behind them. Smith sees all the religions revealed by the same god over time, connected, yet different as appropriate for that time in human history. A personal achievement was the inclusion of an eighth category of religion: The Primal Religions, since it was through personal study that he came to see native religions as valid counterparts to the other seven religions; Smith’s own teachers were dismissive of anything but the seven main religions. In The World’s Religions, you’ll learn:

• The guiding principals and resident wisdom of Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and “The Primal Religions”
• The inner beliefs and dimensions for each religion