Dimensions of the Sacred An Anatomy of the World's Beliefs
Dimensions of the Sacred for the first time maps the underlying features of the world's major faiths--Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and African and other indigenous religions. This would be remarkable in itself. But Ninian Smart then uses the same principles to investigate 'secular religions' such as Marxist-Leninism and nationalism.