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World Religions: Eastern Traditions, 5th Edition

ISBN-13: 978-0190875435
ISBN-10: 0190875437

Authors: Roy C. Amore (Author), Amir Hussain (Author), Willard Oxtoby (Author)

World Religions: Eastern Traditions, Fifth Edition, provides students with an accessible, engaging, and thought-provoking survey of Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Chinese, Korean, and Japanese religions. The expert contributors offer an authoritative examination of the origins, central teachings, divisions and branches, rituals and practices, influences on culture, and responses to modern challenges for each tradition.

Ideal for courses in Asian religions and comparative religions, World Religions: Eastern Traditions, Fifth Edition, combines a historically descriptive perspective with a spirit of sympathetic fascination.

Preface
This is the fifth edition of a successful textbook project start by the late Professor Will Oxtoby of the University of Toronto. He believed that only those who loved classroom teaching could write a good textbook, and he wanted authors who could write about each religion in a scholarly but appreciative way. In choosing contributors, Amir Hussain, the co-editor of the companion volume, World Rel ions: Western Tradition， and I have tried to be true to Will’s vision.
The Eastern Traditions and Western Traditions volumes include contributions from both female and male contributors. Furthermore, all the contributors were committed to the goals of including both male and female voices and giving attention to women’s experiences throughout each chapter.
Both volumes also strive to understand the role of the various religious traditions within current cultural and political affairs. Till Oxtoby wrote in his original for word that before 1979, many people used to ask him why he was wasting his time on something as unimportant as religion, but that thus questions stopped after Iran’s Islamic Revolution. I have a similar story. Sometimes political science students used to ask me why anyone interested in politics would bother with religion. Since the attacks of September 2001, and more recently the almost-daily news stories involving religions, students no longer question the relevance of studying religions. On the contrary, understanding the world’s major religious traditions seems more important now than ever before. We now live in a global village， on in which most readers of this volume will often interact with adherents of Asian religions at school, at work, on social media, or through travel.