For one-semester, undergraduate courses in Introduction to Religion and Comparative Religion. This comprehensive text introduces students to the nature and variety of religious phenomena, belief, and practice.  It shows the  ways religion is studied, a cross-cultural study of the variety of history forms of religious belief and practice, such as deity conceptions at the divine myth, ritual scripture, rites of passage, views of the human problem evil, and the ways and goals of an examination of the challenges faced by religion today.