“This handbook of religion is not simply a catalog of the religions of the world, or even of religions as such, but a conceptual framing of religions that engages the evangelical perspective without excluding other views. A novel feature is the inclusion of essays by practitioners of other religions and of cultural and ideological movements. Statistics and maps of the spread of religions make the handbook a useful resource for teaching and study.”—Lamin Sanneh, professor of missions and world Christianity, Yale Divinity School, professor of history and professor of international and area studies, Yale University

“Three exceptional scholars of deep Christian commitment in our global era of complex, interactive, religious diversity have gifted us with a handbook rich enough in perspective, content, and method to satisfy comparative historians of religion, contemporary theologians of world Christianity, and evangelists in Christian mission anywhere in the world—a formidable task, which they have accomplished with considerable insight. This would be an ideal textbook for my course ‘Engagement with Other Faiths’ at Fuller Theological Seminary.”—Diane B. Obenchain, professor of religion and director of the China program, Fuller Theological Seminary