This book will help you to understand the backgrounds to the key festivals, ceremonies, and practices of the major world religions, participate in the main holidays and festivals of the different religious calendars, know what to expect and how to be...

This book will help you to appreciate the depth and beauty of the dominant form of Christianity in Greece, Russia and much of Eastern Europe, to understand the tenets, nature and holy days of Orthodox belief, to recognize the physical features of an...

This book will help you to appreciate the wisdom of the world's oldest monotheistic religion; to understand what it means to be a Jew; to recognize the key Jewish festivals and the different aspects of Jewish practice and belief; to avoid faux pas in...

This book will help you to appreciate the significance of one of the largest organized religions in the world to understand the history of the Church, and what it means to be Roman Catholic to recognize the Catholic Church's key practices and beliefs...

This book will help you to discover how Protestantism developed and spread from Europe to America, to appreciate the wide range of interpretations of Protestantism, and the core beliefs and practices shared by the principal Protestant Churches, to un...

This book will help you to appreciate the significance of this particular school of Buddhism, famous for its focus on meditation and self-awakening, to understand the history of Zen and the Ways of Zen, to discover how Zen is a way of life ? not a be...

This book will help you to appreciate one of the world's great religions and the Islamic way of life, to understand what it means to follow the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad - the Messenger of God, to recognize Islam's key practices and tradition...

This book will help you to appreciate one of the historic religions of the Indian subcontinent, to understand what it means to be a Sikh, especially the guru? disciple relationship, to recognize the key festivals of the Sikh year and the different as...

This book will help you to appreciate the timeless wisdom of the oldest form of Buddhism in existence today, to understand what it means to be a Buddhist, to recognize the key practices and traditions of Theravada Buddhism, and to avoid faux pas in c...

This book will help you to appreciate the significance of Japan's own religion in everyday life to recognize the key traditions and festivals (matsuri) of the Shinto year to understand what you will see at Shinto shrines and in Shinto ritual to gain...