Title: Overpriced
Product review: For [price], I expected more than this book delivers. The book presents nutshells that inadequately summarize various portions of scriptures from various faith traditions. While not identified to a specific book of scripture, most of this information is available far more cheaply and with greater depth from any of the world religion books on the market by authors Huston Smith, Ninian Smart, or Mircea Eliade or publishers Eerdmans, St. Martins, or Harper San Francisco. For the money charged here, the encyclopedia should visit major topics in the world's scriptures such as the state of human existence, salvation, or the character of the supreme and provide a summary annotated to each tradition's scripture. While the encyclopedia provides other information on sources, the same information is available more cheaply from Joel Beversuis's "Sourcebook of the World's Religions." Overall, I was greatly disappointed.
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