Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to the Penguin Handbook of the World's LIving Religions / John R. Hinnells -- Introduction to the New Handbook / John R. Hinnells -- Introduction to the First Edition / John R. Hinnells -- Part I. The Religions. -- Judaism / Alan Unterman -- Christianity / Andrew Walls -- Islam / Alford T. Welch -- Zoroastrianism -- Mary Boyce -- Hinduism / Simon Weightman -- Sikhism / W. Owen Cole -- Jainism / Kendall W. Folkert, revised and expanded by John E. Cort -- Buddhism / L. S. Cousins -- Chinese Religions / Michael Saso -- Japanese Religions / David Reid -- Native North American Religions / Armin W. Geertz -- Religions of the Pacific / Brian Colless and Peter Donovan -- African Religions / Aylward Shorter -- New Religious movements in Primal Societies / Harold W. Turner -- Modern Alternative Religions in the West / J. Gordon Melton -- Baha'ism / Denis MacEoin -- Part II: Cross-Cultural Issues. -- Religion and Gender / Ursala King -- Spirituality / Ursala King -- The Study of Diaspora Religions / John R. Hinnells -- African Diaspora Religion / Ossie Stuart -- The Australian South Asian Diaspora / Purushottama Bilimoria -- The Religions of South Asian Communities in Britain / Kim Knot -- The Religions of the South Asian Diaspora in Canada / Harold Coward -- South Asian Religions in the United States / Raymond Brady Williams -- Comparative Reflections on South Asian Religion in International Migration / John R. Hinnells --

Part III: Religions in Australia, Canada, the UK and the US in the Twenty-First Century. -- Religions in Australia in the Twenty-First Century / Gary D. Bouma -- Religions in Canada in the Twenty-First Century / Harold Coward -- Religions in the UK in the Twenty-First Century / Paul Weller -- Religions in the US in the Twenty-First Century / Raymond Brady Williams.