Comparative Religion

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This is a very readable introduction to the history and thought of the major world religions. Beginning with ancient religions and proceeding to polytheistic religions, the geographic and cultural origins of religions are outlined. Bouquet then deals with 'The Phenomenon of India', before proceeding to China & Japan, Hebrew & Christian religion, Islam, and finally a brief chapter on mysticism (which was surprisingly helpful).

Bouquet is one of those slightly liberal Christians in the Church of England around the time of the WWII, and some of the things he says in this book wouldn't sit comfortably with evangelicals today (or evangelicals back in his time either). Nevertheless, he is keen to stress the supremacy and finality of Christian religion, and I think sees it as the final 'world religion'. I hope he is right, but I don't think things are tending in that way. At the very least, entrenched ideologies in China and the Islamic world, the growth of experiential evangelicalism in the global south, and the apparent death of Christendom in the west doesn't bode well. But this is unrelated to the book.

Bouquet regularly comments on the race of the people in which the religions began, which is actually a welcome insight if only because you couldn't find an intelligent soul commenting on it today!

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