Contents

Page Chapter

5 1. Why Be Interested in Other Religions?

19 2. Religion​—How Did It Begin?

41 3. Common Threads in Mythology

69 4. Searching for the Unknown Through Magic and Spiritism

95 5. Hinduism​—A Search for Liberation

129 6. Buddhism​—A Search for Enlightenment Without God

161 7. Taoism and Confucianism​—A Search for Heaven’s Way

187 8. Shinto​—Japan’s Search for God

205 9. Judaism​—Searching for God Through Scripture and Tradition

235 10. Christianity​—Was Jesus the Way to God?

261 11. Apostasy​—The Way to God Blocked

284 12. Islām​—The Way to God by Submission

306 13. The Reformation​—The Search Took a New Turn

329 14. Modern Disbelief​—Should the Search Continue?

344 15. A Return to the True God

366 16. The True God and Your Future

380 Subject Index

383 Picture Credits