Jack Miles

The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Daoism Jack Miles

Publisher Marketing: Edited by world-renowned scholars under the direction of Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Miles, The Norton Anthology of World Religions provides a flexible library of more than 1,000 primary texts from the world s major religions Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in six portable paperbacks. This anthology unites foundational works the Bhagavad Gita, the Daode jing, the Bible, the Qur an with the writings of scholars, seekers, believers, and skeptics whose voices have kept these religions vital for centuries, allowing instructors to shape a variety of courses. The selections are supported by the meticulously prepared apparatus introductions, explanatory annotations, bibliographies, maps, and glossaries for which Norton Anthologies have set the standard for fifty years. Unprecedented in scope and approach, The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Daoism brings together over 150 texts from Daoism s origins in the Zhou Dynasty (1046 256 B. C. E.) to its vital, international present. The volume features Jack Miles illuminating General Introduction Art, Play, and the Comparative Study of Religion as well as James Robson s Daoism Lost and Found, a lively primer on the history and guiding values and practices of Daoism. " Review Citations:

Library Journal 12/01/2014 pg. 130 (EAN 9780393062533, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

New York Times Book Review 12/21/2014 pg. 8 (EAN 9780393062533, Hardcover)

New York Times Book Review 12/28/2014 pg. 22 (EAN 9780393062533, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Miles, Jack Jack Miles (Ph. D. Harvard) is Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies with the University of California at Irvine and Senior Fellow for Religious Affairs with the Pacific Council on International Policy. He spent 1960 70 as a Jesuit seminarian, studying at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem before enrolling at Harvard University, where he completed a Ph. D. in Near Eastern languages in 1971. His book GOD: A Biography won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996, and Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God led to his being named a MacArthur Fellow for 2003-07. Contributor Bio:  Robson, James James Robson is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University, and the author of "Humour, Obscenity and Aristophanes" (2006).