Beginning with a medieval fresco of souls being weighed in an English church near Oxford, Carpenter shows how the same ideas recur across the world’s religions. He surveys the panorama of faiths, religion in tribal societies, spirits and gods, sacrifice and sacred acts, scriptures and creeds, the relation of religion to morality, and beliefs about life after death.
A lucid introduction to the comparative study of religion by a leading Oxford scholar of his day. Download the free EPUB.