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The Worldmark Encyclopedia of Relilgious Practices has three volumes. Volume 1 includes essays on the history, beliefs, and contemporary practices of 13 major faith groups - African Traditional Religions, Baha'i, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhis,. Taoism, and Anglicanism. Reform Judaism, Mahayana Buddhism, and Vaishnavism. These assay topic…
With this study goes the authors' desire that this publication may serve to deepen the reader's understanding of new religious currents in present day Japan and thus shed some more light on the kaleidoscopic religious scene of this island empire. The New Religions - as their name indicates sufficiently - are no obsolete systems from a vanished past, appealing only to the poetic sentiment like p…