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The World's Wisdom: Sacred Texts of the World's Religions
by
Philip Novak
Novak has created a world Bible for our time from Buddhist, Hindu, Confucian, Taoist, Jewish, Christian, Islamic and primal religion sources. The most powerful and elegant expressions of the religious spirit are coupled with authentic, poetic translations, insightful introductions, and "grace notes" that show how each tradition is best expressed as it is lived out.
Paperback, 448 pages
Published
July 20th 1995
by HarperOne
(first published July 1994)
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Wonderful book. Author teaches World Religions at college level and saw there lacked a comprehensive easy to read collection of sacred texts from all the most influential religions. They are divided by chapter. The point he is demonstrating is how similar they all are! Wonderful. Everyone should read this, in my opinion! It's also one of those books to keep around, keep on hand for always.
An excellent resource for those who are interested in a variety of religions and their respective texts. The 'endnotes' and 'acknowledgements' sections are very useful in helping English speakers locate trustworthy translations of texts in foreign languages.
Excellent companion to Huston Smith's "The World's Religions." Not quite as informative as that volume, but its purpose is different. Contains sacred writings for all the main historical religions. Lots of good stuff in here, and it's not hard to see that there is quite a bit of overlap among different religions.
This was from college, but I liked it. I skipped all but two meetings of the World Religions class I bought this for, but read the book.
This is a wonderfully concise collection of writings from all of the world's major religions, including Primal religions, such as Eskimo creation stories, etc. Perfect introduction to anyone interested in comparative religions/mythologies.
This book gives an interesting glimpse into the various religions of the world. While it is not a comprehensive look at the religion, it highlights the sacred texts of various religious beliefs. I would caution the reader to not rely on this source alone as it does not explain the tenants of the religion and the text could be a bit misleading if you do not already understand the foundation and beliefs of each religion. Even so, it was still an interesting read and a good resource for a high leve...more
i'm reading this for my "world religions" class. it contains excerpts from the world's major religions, which is interesting.
If you just read the texts selected for this book, it almost makes religion seem to make sense.
I learned SO much from this book and still keep it on my shelf!
Even though it was for my world religions class, i really enjoyed reading passages from sacred text. Pretty good stuff man.
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