Faiths across Time [4 volumes] - 5,000 Years of Religious History
by J. Gordon Melton
ABC-CLIO | January 2014 | ISBN-10: 1610690257 | True PDF | 2023 pages | 35.4 mb
http://www.amazon.com/Faiths-across-Time-volumes-Religious/dp/1610690257
Covering a vast time span from 3500 BCE to 2009 CE, this set highlights events of all major religions from all corners of the globe. The presentation format is plain, with no graphical representation or time line. Readers will find a succession of chronological entries, including a date, a geographical label (e.g., China, England, Italy), a religious label (e.g., Christianity, Islam, Judaism), and a paragraph’s worth of highly readable information on the corresponding event. The unique size of this chronology (four volumes) allows for the inclusion of many lesser-known events that would ordinarily be left out of a general-purpose reference work. this work offers so much more than just mindless dates that it can be read in a leisurely manner. And for the sake of those wanting pinpoint access to a particular event, the sets extensive index is included in every volume. This work offers so much more than just mindless dates that it can be read in a leisurely manner. And for the sake of those wanting pinpoint access to a particular event, the sets extensive index is included in every volume.
About the Author
John Gordon Melton (born September 19, 1942) is an American religious scholar who was the founding director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and is currently a research specialist in religion and New Religious Movements with the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion.He is an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church.He is the author of more than twenty-five books, including several encyclopedias, handbooks, and almanacs on American religion and new religious movements. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.
His areas of research include major religious traditions, new religions and alternative religions, occultism and parapsychology, New Age, and vampirology.
CONTENTS
Volume 1: 3500 BCE–499 CE, 1
Volume 2: 500–1399 CE, 451
Volume 3: 1400–1849 CE, 949
Volume 4: 1850–2009 CE, 1479
Selected Bibliography, 2017
Contributors, 2021
Index, I-1
