The Dictionary of Religious Terms

This book seeks to present as much information about significant religious terms, symbols, rites, faiths, movements, orders, sites, ideas, and people as could be put with these pages. The scope is as broad as the questing spirit of man; the entries range from the major faiths to the smallest religious groups, from religious art and architecture to music and literature with spiritual overtones, from ancient animism through church history to such diverse contemporary phenomena as the cargo cults, the theology of the death of God, and the Second Vatican Council