Gathering together the seminal texts of major world religions and metaphysics, this collection offers a window into diverse perspectives on ethics, truth, and what it means to lead a good life. Each volume includes contemporary editions of each text, as well as facing-page commentary, providing analysis and cultural context.

This extensive collection of religious texts examines a wide variety of spiritual traditions. Modern students of religion understand the difference between traditional streams of thought regarding Ultimate Reality. These volumes invite readers into the ancient conversation and provide a grounding for modern scholarship and inter-faith understanding.

Drawn from tribes across North America, Native American Stories of the Sacred is a careful retelling of traditional stories. The stories include Son of Light’s quest to win back his captured wife from the monstrous Man-Eagle; humble Muskrat’s self-sacrifice to establish solid land so other beings might live; Water Spider’s solution for retrieving fire for all the animals; and White Buffalo Calf Woman’s gift of the sacred pipe to the people.