Brand: Océano
Volumes: 1
Format: 23 x 30 cm
Binding: Hardcover + jacket
Pages: 408
Characters: 1120000
Illustrations: 800
Printing: Full colour
Also in 240-page version
This book takes readers on a comprehensive tour of one of the essential dimensions of humanity: from the earliest burial mounds to the great monotheistic religions, taking in shamanism, the various mythologies, Buddhism, Hinduism and rituals involving human sacrifice.
The meaning of the sacred and its various manifestations in societies and cultures from all over the world are set out in a well-documented, meticolous and attractive way, giving everyone a broad, exciting view of the religions of the world, how they are today, and how they developed throughout History.