Neighboring Faiths: A Christian Introduction to World Religions

This is a great book for those Christians trying to win others to the Lord that dont practice Christianity.

This book is very indepth and detailed as well as informed about the religions it talks about. It is a very good source for learning about rituals, traditions, and cultures that surround and encompass world religions.

This is a text book that examines World Religions in light of Christianity. Corduan is detailed in giving the historical setting, background, and current trends of the major world religions. He also describes how Christians can evangelize the various adherents in each of the world religions, what to avoid which might offend, etc. One of the better characteristics of this particular text is the fact that Corduan covers the native American religions as well as the Traditional religions (African). Something most texts do not cover. The other religions covered in the text are Islam, Hinduism, Chinese Popular Religions, Buddhism, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Shinto (Japanese religion), Jainism, Sikhism and Baha'i. Moreover, Corduan has a wonderful chapter that deals with the historical development of religion (it's origin), the meaning of religion, and a refutation of the evolutionary approach to religion. Corduan describes the concept of original monotheism and details how this is in direct contradiction to the weak but widely accepted evolutionary approach. Therefore, the book is written from an apologetic perspective but is quite detailed and thorough when dealing with the actual religions. Moreover, Corduan spends time in each chapter with each religion describing how the origins of the religion began with a single "high god." Therefore, eliminating the possibility of an evolutionary view of religion. It is quite interesting how the history of religion exhibits the concept of original monotheism ("the idea that all religions began with God - the Creator and Revealer." p.16) This is a wonderful text for Christians to own if for no other reason than the fact that we live in such a pluralistic world and Christian need to be equipped.

Having Dr. Corduan for class, I had to buy his book, yet that didn't keep me from reading ahead and into sections that we didn't even cover. A great book that covers all the major world religions (minus Christianity) and gives Christians an excellent chance to truly be able to relate to others in our cities, states, and country who have differing views from ours.