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Great Events in Religion: An Encyclopedia of Pivotal Events in Religious History

Great Events in Religion: An Encyclopedia of Pivotal Events in Religious History in electronic format, is basically an impression of a print book not an electronic encyclopaedia. I Philosophy and religion had assumed there would be images alongside the text in an attractive e-format or that at least the images would be downloadable from the sidebars. This seems a wasted opportunity for RR 2017/122 displaying the high-quality content to the best Great Events in Religion: An advantage. Encyclopedia of Pivotal Events in Working around the book is quite Religious History time-consuming. No doubt the scholarship is authoritative, and the aims are good to give Edited by Florin Curta and Andrew Holt historical accuracy and enable more ABC-CLIO understanding of the history of various faiths, Santa Barbara, CA but in this particular e-format it is not for the faint-hearted. ISBN 978 1 61069 566 4 Stella Thebridge www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/ Principal Librarian, Schools and Reading, URL: Warwickshire Libraries, Warwick, UK product.aspx?pcA4249C Last visited March 2017 Contact publisher for pricing information RR 2017/123 Also available as a 3 vol. printed set (ISBN 978 1 61069 The Routledge Companion to 565 7 £239 $310) Sixteenth-Century Philosophy Keywords Encyclopedias, History, Religion Edited by Henrik Lagerlund and Benjamin Hill Review DOI 10.1108/RR-03-2017-0055 Routledge There is no doubt that the e-book format, in New York and London which this title here is reviewed, lends itself to a work of this scope which claims to include the xiv  644 pp. key moments in the history of the world’s ISBN 978 0 415 65860 7 (print); ISBN 978 1 315 77051 2 religions. The print set is issued in three volumes: Vol. 1 Prehistory to AD 600; Vol. 2 AD (e-book) 600 to 1,450; Vol. 3 1450 to the Present. £150 $240 (print); £130 $210 (e-book) The start is good – each section has a link Routledge Companions to Philosophy from a clear contents listing. However, when one Keywords Philosophy, Sixteenth century reaches the text it is not easy on the eye. On my Review DOI 10.1108/RR-03-2017-0075 screen, the right-hand side was blank with the two columns of text taking up just the left-hand Most subjects seem simple and under-studied side of the page. I wonder if this is to make the until you look at them closely. Sixteenth century use on a mobile phone easier. This may be the philosophy is one of them. This Companion case, but it should be possible to accommodate demonstrates just how much specialist research various devices for download, and most scholars and scholarship has taken place in recent will want to work from a PC for the extended decades, and how complex the issues really are research. Zooming in makes reading easier, but under the surface. Of course, specialists would it was slow when I viewed it. I was also not sure say that, wouldn’t they? Yet in this case, there is about the muted sequence of pages below a line good reason to revisit and re-evaluate. at the foot of the text. This appeared to change Superficial understandings of sixteenth the format of the pages but with no clarity as to century thought often bleed into crude contrasts how each layout differed. with the mediaeval period, and underplay the On the pages themselves, there are sidebars sixteenth century at the expense of the which give a resources button. I had assumed seventeenth when “everything” (above scientific this might give images. The three random pages inquiry) appears to flourish. It is also a period where I downloaded this, it was the same where simplistic binarism – usually in the form picture, an image of the front cover of the book, of the scholastics versus the humanists, or the and not a very clear one at that. Catholics versus the Protestants, or the There is a good general bibliography. But this universities with the religious orders (above all e-book version, as with other ABC-CLIO titles the Jesuits and Dominicans). It can confuse modern readers, distort understandings of the past and reduce thinkers of the period to mere Reference Reviews partisans for one cause or another – without Volume 31 · Number 5 · 2017 · pp. 8 –10 © Emerald Publishing Limited · ISSN 0950-4125 admitting that many stayed neutral or went http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Reference Reviews Emerald Publishing

Great Events in Religion: An Encyclopedia of Pivotal Events in Religious History

Thebridge, Stella
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in electronic format, is basically an impression of a print book not an electronic encyclopaedia. I Philosophy and religion had assumed there would be images alongside the text in an attractive e-format or that at least the images would be downloadable from the sidebars. This seems a wasted opportunity for RR 2017/122 displaying the high-quality content to the best Great Events in Religion: An advantage. Encyclopedia of Pivotal Events in Working around the book is quite Religious History time-consuming. No doubt the scholarship is authoritative, and the aims are good to give Edited by Florin Curta and Andrew Holt historical accuracy and enable more ABC-CLIO understanding of the history of various faiths, Santa Barbara, CA but in this particular e-format it is not for the faint-hearted. ISBN 978 1 61069 566 4 Stella Thebridge www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/ Principal Librarian, Schools and Reading, URL: Warwickshire Libraries, Warwick, UK product.aspx?pcA4249C Last visited March 2017 Contact publisher for pricing information RR 2017/123 Also available as a 3 vol. printed set (ISBN 978 1 61069 The Routledge Companion to 565 7 £239 $310) Sixteenth-Century Philosophy Keywords Encyclopedias, History, Religion Edited by Henrik Lagerlund and Benjamin Hill Review DOI 10.1108/RR-03-2017-0055 Routledge There is no doubt that the e-book format, in New York and London which this title here is reviewed, lends itself to a work of this scope which claims to include the xiv  644 pp. key moments in the history of the world’s ISBN 978 0 415 65860 7 (print); ISBN 978 1 315 77051 2 religions. The print set is issued in three volumes: Vol. 1 Prehistory to AD 600; Vol. 2 AD (e-book) 600 to 1,450; Vol. 3 1450 to the Present. £150 $240 (print); £130 $210 (e-book) The start is good – each section has a link Routledge Companions to Philosophy from a clear contents listing. However, when one Keywords Philosophy, Sixteenth century reaches the text it is not easy on the eye. On my Review DOI 10.1108/RR-03-2017-0075 screen, the right-hand side was blank with the two columns of text taking up just the left-hand Most subjects seem simple and under-studied side of the page. I wonder if this is to make the until you look at them closely. Sixteenth century use on a mobile phone easier. This may be the philosophy is one of them. This Companion case, but it should be possible to accommodate demonstrates just how much specialist research various devices for download, and most scholars and scholarship has taken place in recent will want to work from a PC for the extended decades, and how complex the issues really are research. Zooming in makes reading easier, but under the surface. Of course, specialists would it was slow when I viewed it. I was also not sure say that, wouldn’t they? Yet in this case, there is about the muted sequence of pages below a line good reason to revisit and re-evaluate. at the foot of the text. This appeared to change Superficial understandings of sixteenth the format of the pages but with no clarity as to century thought often bleed into crude contrasts how each layout differed. with the mediaeval period, and underplay the On the pages themselves, there are sidebars sixteenth century at the expense of the which give a resources button. I had assumed seventeenth when “everything” (above scientific this might give images. The three random pages inquiry) appears to flourish. It is also a period where I downloaded this, it was the same where simplistic binarism – usually in the form picture, an image of the front cover of the book, of the scholastics versus the humanists, or the and not a very clear one at that. Catholics versus the Protestants, or the There is a good general bibliography. But this universities with the religious orders (above all e-book version, as with other ABC-CLIO titles the Jesuits and Dominicans). It can confuse modern readers, distort understandings of the past and reduce thinkers of the period to mere Reference Reviews partisans for one cause or another – without Volume 31 · Number 5 · 2017 · pp. 8 –10 © Emerald Publishing Limited · ISSN 0950-4125 admitting that many stayed neutral or went

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