Religions Explained: A Beginner's Guide to World Faiths

by Anita Ganeri, Marcus Braybrooke

An illustrated history of world religion ranges from the ancient beliefs of Egypt, Babylonia, Greece, and the Americas to the origins and practices of modern faiths, discussing the worship, festivals, and tenets of each religion.

69 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1997

About the author

Anita Ganeri is a highly experienced author of children’s information books, specialising in religion, India/Asia, multiculturalism, geography, biography and natural history. She became a freelance writer after working at Walker Books (as foreign rights manager) and Usborne Publishing (as an editor). Since then, she has written over 300 titles, including the best-selling Horrible Geography series for Scholastic. The series won the Geographical Association Silver Award in 1999 and was cited as being ‘an innovation that all geographers will applaud’. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society where she conducts most of her research for the books.

Reviews

[Kyle Thompson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good basic information, but definitely from a humanist point of view, treating religion like gangs or clubs: where did they come from? How do they form? What does it say about humanity?

[Tracy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good beginner guide to world religions, especially for young readers. On the negative side, it covers Judaism, Christianity and Islam extensively while skimming over so many other religions, going so far as grouping together cultural beliefs, like Native Americans, into one category. On the positive side, this book touches on many religions often skipped by other beginner guides. Most information is accurate, although vague as can be expected by a young readers beginner's guide to world religions.

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