This title, from the A to Z reference series for children, contains full-page features on the six major world religions: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Sikhism. It provides detailed information on the various beliefs, festivals, places of worship, gods, and religious tracts, plus the people who founded each religion.

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An attractive, sensitively written book that can help young children better understand their playmates and neighbors who may be of different faiths. Such an approach today helps ensure peace and cooperation tomorrow in our ever more diverse society. -Joan Brown Campbell General Secretary, National Council of Churches in Christ in the USA The concise, descriptive text and beautiful illustrations provide an informative and entertaining resource to help children-and adults-understand the diversity as well as the similarity of the world's religions. -Jimmy Carter 39th President of the United States of America At long last, a book that simply and accurately introduces children to many of the world's religious traditions. Teachers now have a lively and beautiful new resource for making sure that learning about religions is an important part of elementary education. -Charles C. Haynes Senior Scholar, Freedom Forum First Amendment Center

This book was written with the sole purpose of explaining the most popular and important religions of the world. However, there is no one superior religion or belief system in this world. All of the religions that have been developed throughout the ages were based on the cultures and values of the people from those time periods. Their ways of thinking then got passed down to future generations of people through the use of holy books and scriptures. You don't necessarily have to believe in any particular God or religion to adapt a belief system similar to the religions of this book. If you have read through the descriptions of each religion then you will understand that most of them have one thing in common. They are all about teaching people how to act better in their lives by treating others fairly and with kindness. Without some kind of religion or belief system, then people would just wander around thinking they could do whatever they wanted without any consequences. You may think that we have police and laws to control people, but where do you think those laws originated from? Many of our modern day laws come from religious beliefs, like do not kill, do not steal and do not abuse others. We also have many politicians and government leaders who are religious and they create their laws based on the religious teachings they were taught as a child. This is how much impact religion has on our lives, whether you are religious yourself or not. The religions mentioned in this book are the oldest and most popular religions of the modern world. Table of contents: What is religion? Types of religion What is God? Christianity Islam Hinduism Buddhism Atheism Sikhism Judaism Bahai Faith Confucianism Jainism Zoroastrianism Shinto Wicca Shamanism Taoism Message from the author

Offers more than three thousand articles on the world of religion.

"Discover the diversity of world religions with this interactive flap book. Lift the flaps to discover the many ways people pray, worship and celebrate the major world religions."