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Norton’s Latest Anthology Explores World Religion

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 didn’t 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.....Continue Reading

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