Religions of the World

This encyclopaedia and handbook series provides comprehensive coverage of ‘World Religions’. Cohesive and objective in its treatment, the series covers a wide spectrum of academic disciplines and religious traditions. It lays bare similarities and differences that naturally emerge within and across disciplines and religions today. The series includes the academic field of multi-disciplinary, secular study of religious beliefs, behaviours, and institutions. It offers descriptions, comparisons, interpretations and explanations on religions in many different regions of the world. The series emphasizes systematic, historically based and cross-cultural perspectives.

Each volume offers a ‘state of play’ perspective regarding the specific area of the world being considered, looking both at the current situation and at likely further developments within that area.