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Retaining all the beloved qualities of Huston Smith's clasic The Religions of Man and the current fully revised and updated The Horld') Religiens, this beautifully illustrated presentation now gives Smith's unique appreciation of the world's religious traditions a wonderful new dimension. As Smith explains, this new visual as well as textual presentation of the world's religious wisdom and vision is even "more faithful to its subject, for during most of human history people have found their sacred texts in song and dance and paintings and stone more than in writing. What distinguishes sacred art is the window it opens onto another world-a world that is vaster. stronger, more real, and more beautiful that the world we normally encounter." This book-in its exceptional text, art, photos, and design-provides singular access to that other world.