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An easy-to-understand pocket reference guide. Gain a brief overview of the historical and doctrinal backgrounds of the world’s major religious groups in this full-color pocket guide. The book emphasizes the uniqueness of Christianity, while highlighting how it differs from other world religions such as Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and, Confucianism. The book also examines smaller religious groups such as the Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists, Christian Scientists, and Unitarians. It takes a glance at Roman Catholicism as well as numerous Protestant Christian groups, and it concludes with a section stressing the distinctive role that Jesus Christ plays in the history of world religion.

Mark Water was born in Devon, England and trained for the Anglican ministry at the London College of Divinity. He was ordained as an evangelical minister in 1966. For the past 20 years he has been engaged in the ministry of Christian literature as writer, editor and advisor. He is the author of the Bible Made Easy series; the Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations; the Encyclopedia of Christian Martyrs, and many other volumes.