Synopsis
Most people alive today (more than three-quarters of the world's population) belong to one of the great religions. These faiths are built on the foundation-stones of key texts, to which people go for spiritual inspiration and moral guidance. But what are these texts and what do they mean? Introducing and describing their content and core tenets, and quoting their key passages, The Sacred Library will help believers and unbelievers alike to understand why these sacred texts matter so much to so many people in today's world: the Bible remains the best-selling book world-wide, and other texts from the past are hugely influential in the present - for example, the Analects of Confucius in Asia and the Quran for Muslims. Historically, sacred texts have had a critical impact on the drafting of landmark political documents, such as the Constitution of the United States. The Sacred Library is an accessible, scholarly and informative guide not only to such well-known texts as the Bible and Quran, but also to more than 400 others. It is essential reading for those who want to understand the influence of religious texts both in the past and in the world of today.
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John Bowker is an academic expert on world religions with a global reputation. His book The Meanings of Death won the Collins Religious Book Award in 1993, and God: A Brief History (2002) was listed as a New York Times bestseller. He has been a Fellow of Corpus Christi College and Trinity College in Cambridge, and he was Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Lancaster from 1974 until 1984. From 1992 to 1997 he was Gresham Professor of Divinity at Gresham College, London. He has also been Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and North Carolina State University. He has been a consultant for UNESCO, and has broadcast frequently on BBC radio and television. He has written and edited more than 30 books including Problems of Suffering in Religions of the World, Worlds of Faith: Religious Belief and Practice in Britain Today, and The Sacred Neuron: Discovering the Extraordinary Links between Science and Religion.
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