Experiencing Scripture in World Religions

by Harold Coward (Editor)

An inside view of how the scriptures of world religions illuminate the lives and experience of their devotees.

Paperback

First published April 5, 2013

About the author

Harold G. Coward is a professor emeritus of history and the founding director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He served as president of the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion and was the founding editor of the Journal for Hindu-Christian Studies and editor of the WLU Press series The Study of Religion in Canada. He has authored twenty books along with many edited books, chapters and articles. His publications include Scripture in the World Religions (2002), Mantra: Hearing the Divine in India and America (2004), and The Perfectibility of Human Nature in Eastern and Western Thought (2008).

Reviews

[Carol · Rating 3 out of 5]

Had to read this one for my World Religions class. Nothing extraordinary about it - very straightforward information on how each of the major world religions approach scripture and the loss of mystery/spirit with the focus on the written word rather than the spoken.