Includes chapter notes and suggestions for further reading, bibliographical references and index.

Content: Part 1. General characteristics of religion (an introduction to the study of religion, what religion is, religions in space and time) -- Part 2. Three classics of Asian religion (Hinduism and the Bhagavad-Gita, Buddhism and the Dhammapada, Taoism and the Tao Te Ching) -- Part 3. Biblical religion (modern scholarship and the Bible, the literature and faith of the Old Testament, the literature and faith of the New Testament, the authority and significance of the Bible) -- Part 4. Religion in the modern western culture (the mind of the modern west, religion takes account of modernity, contemporary literature: mirror of man in crisis, beyond modernity: faith rediscovers its message) -- Part 5. Social and psychological dimensions of religion (religion and society, religion and personality, the ethics of divine-human dialogue, the responsible person, the responsible society, the world religions in dialogue) -- Part 6. Logic, Science, and God (the logic of religious language, science and religion, the nature of religious knowledge, the knowledge of God, the problem of evil) -- Part 7. The religious meaning of being human (the need for roots, the need for hope, the need for communion) -- Epilogue: the need for decision-a faith of one's own.