“Distinctive in selecting excerpts not only from classic religious texts but also from those of long-dead faiths (Greek, Egyptian, etc.) from ‘small-scale traditional religions’ (American Indian, Polynesian), from new religious bodies (Mormon, Moonie) and from secular world views (Bertrand Russell, Marx, U.N. charter preamble). Religions with sections all their own are Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism, Confucianism, Shintoism, and Sikhism.”