Offers more than three thousand articles on the world of religion.

"This third edition identifies and clarifies a thousand central theological terms, providing necessary information about their origin, the history of their usag

Seeks to bring the original dictionary up-to-date by supplementing it with pertinent ideas and biographies from the past fifteen years, with an emphasis on the

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