This Believing World by Lewis Browne - ODJ
This Believing World
A Simple Account of the Great Religions of Mankind
by Lewis Browne
With More Than Seventy Illustrations and Animated Maps Drawn by the Author
This book is a Third Printing from October 1926, published by The Macmillan Company in New York.
From the dust jacket flap about this book:
Here at last is a book long awaited, a really authentic and attractive popularization of the whole subject of Comparative Religion. The same narrative gift and dramatic quality are in evidence that won so swift and favorable a verdict from a large public for Dr. Browne's "Short History of the Jews,"
Again, he makes a story where the practice is to make a dry treatise. He tells what savages believed and makes a tale also of what their religious beliefs meant and did to them. He does the same for the primitive Celts, the Babylonians, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Hindus, the Chinese, the Persians, the Hebrews, the peoples of Europe and the Arabs. Incidentally, he covers the founding of all the great living religions, relates their history and describes their dominant characteristics.
Comparative Religion is a relatively new field of study. Not so long ago its comparisons between Christianity and the other great religions of the world were read with suspicion and a hostile eye, even when done by a Christian scholar in good standing who did his best to show that Christianity could stand these tests and come out on top. But a Christian scholar who writes a work today on Comparative Religion is not expected to be quite so extremely partisan.
Something of the old shock of novelty will be experienced in reading Lewis Browne's history of the world's religions. For it is done by a writer who has no Christian axe to grind at all
"This believing World" is copiously illustrated with block drawings and animated maps done by the author on his travels in the Orient in search of first hand witness through conversation with learned representatives of the various religions of the East.
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This book is in very good condition with minimal wear. There is no writing or markings inside the book. The dust jacket is in good condition with some edge wear.
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