Think of it as the bird book for belief systems. You crack it open the same way: not to be converted, but to tell one tradition from the next at a glance. The Field Guide of Faiths lays out more than a hundred religions—living, extinct, and deliberately revived—with the same cool-eyed clarity a naturalist brings to beetles or wildflowers.
Every entry is a specimen page. Origin and date (with confidence level). Peak range. Present size or when it winked out. Then the diagnostic checklist: what texts or oral rules actually ran the show, what the rites looked like, how the dead were imagined, what marked insiders from outsiders, how it spread (conquest, trade, fertility, state power), the field marks you’d notice first, and the big lasting splits. Lineage diagrams show who borrowed from whom. Maps pin the original hearths.
From Sumerian temple towers and Canaanite high places through the full Jewish–Christian–Islamic family tree, Zoroastrian dualism, Vedic-to-Buddhist-Hindu-Sikh lines, Chinese Buddhism, African and Mesoamerican systems, and modern reconnections of broken traditions—everything is treated as historical morphology, not theology. No advice on what to believe. Just the comparative record.
Assembled with large language models and flagged as such. Treat it as a birdseye overview and a launch pad for deeper reading, not as gospel.
Perfect for anyone who already owns a shelf of field guides and has always wished someone would do the same for the world’s faiths.
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Think of it as the bird book for belief systems. You crack it open the same way: not to be converted, but to tell one tradition from the next at a glance. The Field Guide of Faiths lays out more than a hundred religions-living, extinct, and deliberately revived-with the same cool-eyed clarity a naturalist brings to beetles or wildflowers.Every entry is a specimen page. Origin and date (with confidence level). Peak range. Present size or when it winked out. Then the diagnostic checklist: what texts or oral rules actually ran the show, what the rites looked like, how the dead were imagined, what marked insiders from outsiders, how it spread (conquest, trade, fertility, state power), the field marks you'd notice first, and the big lasting splits. Lineage diagrams show who borrowed from whom. Maps pin the original hearths.From Sumerian temple towers and Canaanite high places through the full Jewish-Christian-Islamic family tree, Zoroastrian dualism, Vedic-to-Buddhist-Hindu-Sikh lines, Chinese Buddhism, African and Mesoamerican systems, and modern reconnections of broken traditions-everything is treated as historical morphology, not theology. No advice on what to believe. Just the comparative record.Assembled with large language models and flagged as such. Treat it as a birdseye overview and a launch pad for deeper reading, not as gospel.Perfect for anyone who already owns a shelf of field guides and has always wished someone would do the same for the world's faiths. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9798191368054
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Think of it as the bird book for belief systems. You crack it open the same way: not to be converted, but to tell one tradition from the next at a glance. The Field Guide of Faiths lays out more than a hundred religions-living, extinct, and deliberately revived-with the same cool-eyed clarity a naturalist brings to beetles or wildflowers.Every entry is a specimen page. Origin and date (with confidence level). Peak range. Present size or when it winked out. Then the diagnostic checklist: what texts or oral rules actually ran the show, what the rites looked like, how the dead were imagined, what marked insiders from outsiders, how it spread (conquest, trade, fertility, state power), the field marks you'd notice first, and the big lasting splits. Lineage diagrams show who borrowed from whom. Maps pin the original hearths.From Sumerian temple towers and Canaanite high places through the full Jewish-Christian-Islamic family tree, Zoroastrian dualism, Vedic-to-Buddhist-Hindu-Sikh lines, Chinese Buddhism, African and Mesoamerican systems, and modern reconnections of broken traditions-everything is treated as historical morphology, not theology. No advice on what to believe. Just the comparative record.Assembled with large language models and flagged as such. Treat it as a birdseye overview and a launch pad for deeper reading, not as gospel.Perfect for anyone who already owns a shelf of field guides and has always wished someone would do the same for the world's faiths. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9798191368054
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