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Handbook of Religion: A Christian Engagement with Traditions, Teachings, and Practices is unavailable, but you can change that!

This comprehensive handbook provides a Christian perspective on religion and its many manifestations around the world. Written by top religion scholars from a broad spectrum of Christianity, it introduces world religions, indigenous religious traditions, and new religious movements. Articles explore the relationship of other religions to Christianity, providing historical perspective on past...

beliefs, and practices of those religions. Each of the chapters on Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and the others are presented without critique or favor. The focus is on “just the facts” with as little commentary as possible. The second approach is the theological approach, illustrated by textbooks that describe not only what the other religions teach but also what is right and wrong with those religions from a Christian theological point of view. At their best, these textbooks discern God’s creative
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