Legions of Faiths, Girded for Battle
Nortons Latest Anthology Explores World Religion
By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER
NOV. 2, 2014
Jack Miles has undertaken no less ambitious a project than writing a biography of God, winning a Pulitzer Prize in the bargain.
But when the publisher W. W. Norton & Company approached him nine years ago about serving as general editor of its inaugural edition of The Norton Anthology of World Religions, Mr. Miles, a former Jesuit seminarian, balked. While the timing seemed right, given the continuing post-Sept. 11 hunger for interreligious understanding, the task was dauntingly huge.
I didnt think I knew enough, Mr. Miles, a professor of English and religious studies at the University of California, Irvine, recalled recently.
Still, he was persuaded, and now the anthology featuring some 4,200 pages of texts spanning roughly 3,500 years is here.
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