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Irving Hexham's short videos to accompany the book Understanding world Religions
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Below are a series of five minute interviews about various chapters in the book Understanding World Religions
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Chapter 1 On Ninian Smart ... Chapter 1.2 Why write yet another textbook on religion? Chapter 2 On African religions ... Chapter 3 Primal religions ... Chapter 4 Witches and witchcraft ... Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Isaiah Shembe ... Chapter 7 Christianity and Yoga ... Chapter 8 Hinduism ... Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Gandhi ... Chapter 11 The origins of Buddhism Chapter 12 Buddhism and belief in God ... Chapter 12 Buddhism and belief in God ... Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Yogic religions ... Chapter 15 Judaism and Christianity ... Chapter 16.1 The Christians and Judaism ... Chapter 16.2 Frank Eyck's pilgrimage .. Chapter 17 Judaism and Legalism ... Chapter 18 Chapter 19 The language of Jesus ... Chapter 20 Nubia and Global Christianity ... Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Prejudice against Muslims ... Chapter 24.1 The Koran and the Bible ... Chapter 24.2James Dickie - Yaqub Zaki and religious extremism ... Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Sayyid Qutb and modern Islam ... Conclusion Irving Hexham on: Ancestoral neo-Paganism Karla Poewe on: New Religions and the Nazis
The textbook Understanding World Religions is available from the American publisher Zondervan. In 2012 it won a Christianity Today book award. There is also a video lecture series to accompany it.

All text and graphics onUnderstanding World Religions are protected by copyright, 1995, 199, 2011. Permission to reproduce material found on this Web Site must be obtained from the appropriate copyright owner. World religions graphic by Christopher Tobias from Irving Hexham's Understanding World Religions, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 2012, and Roberta Polfus, from the Concise Dictionary of Religion, InterVarsity Press, Carol Stream, 1994.