Essays on World Religious Thoughts: a Comparative Study

This book is a collection of essays on religious thoughts across various religious traditions and belief systems in the world. It covers essays on Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, African Traditional Religion, Mythology, and Philosophy of Religion from a comparative perspective. It offers the reader an insight into the thoughts of these religions, where they relate to each other and how they differ from each because of many factors, which include cultural background. An understanding of this nature in very important in interfaith, interreligious and intra-religious relationships aimed at fostering better understanding and appreciation of our diversities, towards building harmonious relationships among followers of various religions thereby reducing religious/global tensions occasioned by intolerance, misunderstanding and/or ignorance of other people's religious beliefs and traditions.