Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( book 1 ) rejected this account of the people he called the Tyrrhenians, partly on the authority of Xanthus, a Lydian historian, who had no knowledge of the story, and partly on what he judged to be the different languages, laws, and religions of the two peoples.

Wells wrote in his book God the Invisible King that his idea of God did not draw upon the traditional religions of the world: " This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer.

His book Jésus-Christ à la rencontre des religions ( 1989 ) was well received and promptly translated in Italian, English and Spanish.

In her book The Meme Machine, Susan Blackmore regards religions as particularly tenacious memes.

In his 2000 book Mystics and Messiahs, Philip Jenkins discussed the term's usage, and likened it to " smear words " associated with other religions ; giving examples of Shaker, Methodist, and Mormon.

It should be noted that non-Muslims who were not classified as " people of the book ", for example practitioners of the pre-Muslim indigenous Arabian religions, had few or no rights in Muslim society.

Most of the 15 Sikh Bhagats who are mentioned in their holy book were non-Sikhs and belonged to Hindu and Muslim faiths, which were the most prevalent religions of this region.

Islam recognizes to a certain extent the validity of the Abrahamic religions, the Qur ' an identifying Jews, Christians, and " Sabi ' un " or " baptists " ( usually taken as a reference to the Mandeans ) as " people of the book " ( ahl al-kitab ).

Those who believe and those who are Jews and Christians, and Sabians, whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day and do righteous good deeds shall have their reward with their Lord, on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve ... let there be no compulsion in religion "-that all monotheistic religions or people of the book have a chance of salvation, to the most exclusive teaching common amongst Salafis and Wahhabis, and supported by several works of medieval Islamic theology and by traditions ( hadith ) which are considered correct ( sahih ) by Sunni Muslims, for the most part are summed up in Surah 9: 5, 29: " Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them, and besiege them, and lay in wait in every stratagem of war.

However, it is only regarded as one of the " people of the book " religions in Iran.

It was allegedly the Abbasid caliph al-Ma ' mun who, while passing through Harran on his way to a campaign against the Byzantine Empire, forced the Harranians to convert to one of the " religions of the book ", meaning Judaism, Christianity, or Islam.

The book of Psalms, included in the Jewish and Christian scriptures, and said to have been written largely by David, is one of the earliest collections of sacred music, and still plays a role in the liturgies of the two religions.

H. Shimada is a professor who studies the relationship between religions and society ; this book is generally considered a neutral description.

His next work ( 1747 ) was The Pantheon: A Vision, an anonymously published book of poetry covering the various religions in the world.

During the 20th century the German writer Hermann Hesse showed great interest in Eastern religions, writing a book entitled Siddhartha.

All the religious minorities objected to the text in 1982 claiming the book was a violation of Article 13 guaranteeing freedom in religious teaching, that there were overt and covert passages from the Quran, and lack of any qualifications of the anonymous author ( s ) rather than members of the religious minorities writing about their own religions.

The book is in two parts: the first part deals with the foundational discourse that divine revelation is progressive and religions are related to one another, with each major monotheistic religion accepting the previous ones and, often in veiled terms, prophesying the advent of the next one.

Randolph used a wide range of sources to write his book from many different world traditions, esoterica and ancient religions.

The purpose of this book is to show as clearly as possible that there is an essential unity in all religions ; that there is no difference in the truths inculcated by the various faiths ; that there is but one method by which the world, both external and internal, has evolved ; and that there is but one Goal admitted by all scriptures.

Monotheist religions of the people of the book were tolerated but conspicuous displays of faith, such as bells and processions, were discouraged.

Newbrough claimed that the book was not a sacred text per se, but rather a history of religions going back 24, 000 years ; Newbrough did not claim any knowledge of ancient religions.

The first reporter on the book, writing for The New York Times, compared the book's content to a revised fusion of Indian and Semitic religions, and said its style was " in one place modern, and in another ancient, and the English of the King James version of the Christian bible is mixed in with the English of today's.

He wrote a mainstream novel that was set in Communist China, The Violent Man ( 1962 ); he said that to research this book he had read 100 books about China.

Te-cheng's sister, Kong Demao, lives in mainland China and has written a book about her experiences growing up at the family estate in Qufu.

The handheld pistol-and-trigger crossbow was invented in China in the 4th century BC ; it was written by the Song Dynasty scholars Zeng Gongliang, Ding Du, and Yang Weide in their book Wujing Zongyao ( 1044 AD ) that massed missile fire by crossbowmen was the most effective defense against enemy cavalry charges.

Some think the name was chosen from the classic Chinese book the I Ching ; others note that the first character of his courtesy name is also the first character of the courtesy name of his brother and other male relatives on the same generation line, while the second character of his courtesy name shi ( 石 — meaning " stone ") suggests the second character of his " register name " tai ( 泰 — the famous Mount Tai of China ).

The book chronologically narrates the history of China from the Warring States period in 403 BCE to the beginning of the Song Dynasty in 959 CE.

After a ( similarly unsuccessful ) stint in Guangzhou, China, he eventually returned to Portugal and became the first European to publish a book on China in 1569 / 1570.

* The Route to the Orient is a book and CD collection, telling the story of Xavier ' missionary travels to China.

In 1983, British journalist Anthony Grey published a controversial book in which he claimed that Holt had been an agent for the People's Republic of China and that he had been picked up by a Chinese submarine off Portsea and taken to China.

Generally, a book publisher is not required to assign an ISBN, nor is it necessary for a book to display its number ( except in China ; see below ).

He studied the Chinese language, traveled extensively researching the history, traditions and customs of the Chinese, which he intended to use as material for a book about life in contemporary China, and regularly sent detailed reports to the General Staff and Foreign Ministry.

Marco Polo (; ; September 15, 1254 – January 9, 1324 ) was a Venetian merchant traveler whose travels are recorded in Il Milione, a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China.

While Polo's book describes paper money and the burning of coal, it fails to mention the Great Wall of China, chopsticks, and footbinding, making skeptics wonder if Marco Polo had really gone to China, or wrote his book based on hearsay.

* 868 – A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it oldest known dated printed book.

In ancient China, the earliest literary reference to magnetism lies in a 4th century BC book named after its author, The Master of Demon Valley ( 鬼谷子 ): " The lodestone makes iron come or it attracts it.

Adam Brand, a merchant from Lübeck, published in 1698 his account of a Russian ambassy to China and a translation of his book, published the same year, introduced the word to English speakers.

The book was once lost in China until Qing dynasty mathematician Luo Shilin bought a Korean printed edtion, and re published in Yangzhou, since then this book was reprinted several times.

The preface of the book describes how Zhu travelled around China for 20 years as a teacher of mathematics.

The book, Training the Samurai Mind: A Bushido Sourcebook, gives an insider's view of the samurai world: " the moral and psychological development of the warrior, the ethical standards they were meant to uphold, their training in both martial arts and strategy, and the enormous role that the traditions of Shintoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism had in influencing samurai ideals.

In this book Kita explicitly promotes the platonic state authoritarianism emphasizing the close relationship between Confucianism and the " from above " concept of the national socialism stating that Mencius is the Plato of the East and that Plato's concept in organizing a society is far preferable than that of Marx's.

The Odes first became known as a jīng, or a " classic book ", in the canonical sense, as part of the Han Dynasty official adoption of Confucianism as the guiding principles of Chinese society.

The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism is a book written by Max Weber, a German economist and sociologist.

I thought that the truth is not remote from us … After a long time, I suddenly awoke to the realization that what I inwardly witnessed agreed entirely with the idea of ‘ great change ’ in the Confucian transmission … hence my own understanding of Confucianism was not derived from book learning.