World Religions: History Detectives Series

by Simon Adams

Explore the gods, faiths and worship of the world's religions, from the beginning of civilization to the present day. This book provides valuable insight to all the major religions, explaining the background to each one, their key beliefs and principles, and their sacred texts and religious festivals. World Religions is an accessible and informative family reference book that traces the history of religion around the world, showing how religious faith is an integral part of human culture.

64 pages, Paperback

First published September 25, 2000

About the author

Simon Adams is a writer and editor of children’s non-fiction and reference books. He specializes in history, politics and current affairs and has written extensively on exploration, music and the arts. He is also a well established jazz critic and reviewer. Simon has also contributed to family and adult reference books and has been an editorial consultant on various history and other titles.
Simon was born in Bristol and studied history and politics at the London School of Economics and Bristol University, where he gained an MSc. He entered publishing as a publicity copywriter at Routledge and subsequently joined Dorling Kindersley, eventually becoming managing editor of the children's division. He became a full-time writer 15 years ago. Since then, he has written and contributed to more than 60 books for a wide range of publishers on subjects as varied as archaeology, the sinking of the Titanic and the history of jazz. Simon lives in London and is a keen reader and cyclist.

Reviews

[Isabel Haber]

A very interesting book that describes these world religions rather well.

[Margaret]

I know this is intended for children or young adults, but it is a great introduction and "reader's digest" version of the world's religions.

[Kat Goldin]

A Journey through History Series
The Story of World Religions
A clear, useful and rewarding feature of this nonfiction book is the wonderfully detailed timelines of each religion. The world’s has nearly too many religions and is almost to overwhelming to comprehend. This book does a fantastic job at introducing the various types in an overview with basic information that is easily comparable to one another and easy to use as a springboard when researching. The text is very effortlessly adaptable to middle or high school learners. Wow, this book’s information is part of the 6th grade curriculum in Texas and this book is chocked full of excellent data, statics and fact that is extremely easy to adapt to the teaching platform. I am not a religious expert, so I cannot comment on the validity of the works and for there is not bibliography page. The lack of citations is concerning, thus and so the validity of the book comes into question.

[Susan]

Interesting little book Written for kids, I think, but full of information about world religions. This country is so Christian-centric in this country. Fascinating to read about religions around the world.