The Message and the Book by John Bowker
A magisterial single-volume survey of the great literature of the religions of the world, from the Bible and the Quran to the Vedas and The Analects of Confucius. Quite simply, a comprehensive guide to religions and their texts in one volume.
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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| ISBN 13 | 9780857400017 |
| ISBN 10 | 0857400010 |
| Title | The Message and the Book |
| Author | John Bowker |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Atlantic Books |
| Year published | 2011-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
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