The Religions Book by Big Ideas Simply Explained

The Religions Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK is an informative and engaging guide to the world’s major religions. This book explores the beliefs that underpin religious traditions around the globe, and how they developed.

It provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the five major faiths – Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism – as well as other spiritual philosophies.

The book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. It uses striking graphics along with engaging writing, making big topics easy to understand. It also includes facts, charts, timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts.

The Religions Book presents key information in a clear layout, helping readers to learn the primal beliefs to the world’s great faiths and the continuing quest for spiritual meaning in our complex world.

The major themes of religion explored in this book include continuity and change, representation, differing perspectives, authority, community and identity. It also looks at the core message of all religions, which is transcendence, feelings of universal unity and decreased sense of self.

The Religions Book is the perfect introduction to the world’s most widely practiced religions, aimed at adults with an interest in the subject and students wanting to gain more of an overview. It is an ideal way to explore religious ideas from a variety of perspectives, and to learn how others understand existence and our purpose.

General Themes

• Explores the beliefs that underpin religious traditions around the globe
• Covers the five major faiths – Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism
• Examines major themes of religion such as continuity and change, representation, differing perspectives, authority, community and identity
• Looks at the core message of all religions, which is transcendence, feelings of universal unity and decreased sense of self
• Perfect introduction to the world’s most widely practiced religions

What I Liked

The production values of this book and every book in this series is incredible. The charts, graphs, text – everything is phenomenal.

I loved the tone and approach of all the contributing scholars. The book works as a a reference book, a browsable library checkout, or a serious sit down read.

What I Did Not Like

Nothing – I wish it covered even more. I also wish it was available in 2005 when I was working my through a Religion minor at University of Georgia and trying to figure out concepts in Eastern religions.