Mary Pat Fisher lives and writes in India. She is author of Religion in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge/Prentice-Hall, 1999) and co-author, with Lee Bailey, of An Anthology of Living Religions (Prentice-Hall, 2000).

• 1. The Religious Response 2. Indigenous Sacred Ways 3. Hinduism 4. Jainism 5. Buddhism 6. Taoism and Confucianism 7. Shinto 8. Judaism 9. Christianity 10. Islam 11. Sikhism 12. New Religious Movements 13. Religion at the Turn of the CenturyNotes Glossary Credits Index

'The book is a clearly written, beautifully designed introductory textbook.' - Reviews in Religion and Theology' ... Fisher's book is an ambitious and noteworthy effort to provide a concise overview of today's faiths ... we should laud her for filling a key niche in the literature and producing a valuable resource of the academic study of religion.' - Journal: Teaching Theology and Religion