A survey of religions past and present.

The book starts off extremely poorly, by describing in detail religious rituals of ancient, prehistoric societies that are presented as knowledge, but cannot possibly be more than speculation. After that, it gets somewhat better, as the author treads a bit safer ground as he gets into historical times. Still, there was a great deal of information that was presented as factual but was in fact speculative. There are better books on this topic. ( )

History

Chapters on Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism.
Black & white illustrations.

A gift of Janice Chappie in memory of her son, Damon.