Indian and Far Eastern Religious Traditions

by Alfred Bloom and Robert D. Baird

Book Overview

The present volume provides an introduction to the scholarly study of some of the religious traditions involved in human history. The authors have sought to provide accurate descriptions of the rituals, myths, symbolic devices, belief systems, and social organizations of the world's religions. They have also provided sensitive interpretations of the ethos and the spiritual directions to which these various symbolic forms have pointed. In doing so,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060404485
• ISBN13: 9780060404482
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.