'The Norton Anthology of World Religions'

70年代訂閱Time Magazine，印象深的是：每期都有Religion 等專題或報導。

今天的紐約時報書評版，介紹了 'The Norton Anthology of World Religions' 2卷 (零售價100美元)，分別介紹世界的主要宗教：印度教、佛教、道教(上卷)；猶太教、基督教、伊斯蘭(下卷)。

由於Norton 的各種文學選本很有名 (如英國文學、世界文學、短篇小說.....)，所以這世界主要宗教的文選值得注意。 'The Norton Anthology of World Religions'的總介紹說，這套是宗教方面的藝術、戲劇和比較研究。
目次：
http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail-contents.aspx?ID=4294981555

名家如M. Weber等等 (姑且不談宗教哲學和神學方面)，對各宗教的概論和專論著作頗多；在英文的宗教文選方面，林語堂等也翻譯過中、印方面的。不過我們可期望The Norton Anthology of World Religions 更為豐富。

筆者1974年在東海大學修過某美國老師(忘掉其名)開的"世界宗教"，他自編選文本，很感謝他。
比較：

胡適日记全集, 第 1 卷 1906-1914    264-65。1914.1.28本校基督教青年會， 論世界諸大宗教之源流得失 (23個子題，胡適負責3子題：中國古代之國教；孔教；道教....

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'The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Volume I: Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism' Edited by JACK MILES, WENDY DONIGER, DONALD S. LOPEZ JR. and JAMES ROBSON Reviewed by WILLIAM DALRYMPLE The first volume of Norton's two-part anthology includes texts of Hinduism, Buddhism and Daoism. 'The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Volume II: Judaism, Christianity, Islam' Edited by JACK MILES, DAVID BIALE, LAWRENCE S. CUNNINGHAM and JANE DAMMEN McAULIFFE Reviewed by KAREN ARMSTRONG The second volume of Norton's two-part anthology compiles texts and commentaries on Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

The Norton Anthology of World Religions

VOLUME 1: HINDUISM, BUDDHISM, DAOISM; VOLUME 2: JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM

Jack Miles (General Editor, University of California at Irvine), David Biale (Editor, University of California, Davis), Lawrence Cunningham (Editor),Wendy Doniger (Editor), Donald S. Lopez, Jr. (Editor), Jane Dammen McAuliffe (Editor), James Robson (Editor)

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A landmark work in which the six major, living, international world religions speak to readers in their own words.

This magisterial Norton Anthology, edited by world-renowned scholars under the direction of Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Miles, offers a portable library of more than 1,000 primary texts from the world’s major religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, and Daoism (Volume 1); Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Volume 2). The anthology brings together foundational works—the Bhagavad Gita, the Daodejing, the Bible, the Qur'an—with the writings of scholars, seekers, believers, and skeptics whose voices over centuries have kept these religions vital. To help readers encounter strikingly unfamiliar texts with pleasure, this Norton Anthology provides accessible introductions, headnotes, annotations, pronouncing glossaries, maps, illustrations, and chronologies. It also includes a dazzling general introduction by Jack Miles that questions whether religion can be defined and illuminates how world religions came to be acknowledged and studied, absorbed and altered, understood and misunderstood.

For readers of any religion or none, The Norton Anthology of World Religions opens new worlds that, as Miles writes, invite us all "to see others with a measure of openness, empathy, and good will…In that capacity lies the foundation of human sympathy and cultural wisdom."

BOOK DETAILS

• Hardcover
• November 2014
• ISBN 978-0-393-06253-3
• 6.7 × 9.9 in / 4448 pages
• Sales Territory: Worldwide