Revealing the significance of religion in contemporary life, World Religions Today, Second Edition explores eight major religious traditions - Primal Religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and East Asian religions - as dynamic, ongoing forces in the lives of individuals and in the collective experience of modern societies. Moving beyond the almost exclusively historical perspective of many books in the field, this text takes a fresh approach, using solid historical coverage of the various religious traditions as a framework to help students understand how faiths have evolved to the present day.