Словарь
для верующих и неверующих на английском
языке
A Dictionary for Believers and Nonbelievers.
Translated from the Russian by Catherine Judelson. Progress Publishers.
Moscow, 1989, 622 p.
Словарь для верующих и неверующих на
английском языке(превод с русского языка).
In the whole
of human history it is unlikely that any writtings have been the subject of
so much controversy as the Bible, the Koran and various sacred books of the
other religions. Religious thinkers often present them as the source of
absolute and infallible truth.
Some people turn to religion when they
search after absolute, infallible truth, but what is religion? What views od
religion are to be found among believers and non-believers?
This Dictionary is designed to help the
reader find out about the role of religion in the history of manking, about
the world religions (Christianity, Buddhism and Islam), about religions
peculiar to specific peoples such as Judaism, Hinduism, Confucianism,
Shintoism. The Dictionary contains over 2,400 entries. Readers can glean
information from it about the link between religion and primitive beliefs (e.g.
magic, totemism, animism), about the evolution of religious-idealist
theories and about the present-day theological and
religious-cum-philosophical movements.
