"Second edition published in the United Kingdom in 2004 by Palgrave Macmillan"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-408) and indexes.

Introduction -- The soteriological character of post-axial religion -- Salvation/liberation as human transformation -- The cosmic optimism of post-axial religion -- Ontological, cosmological and design arguments -- Morality, religious experience and overall probability -- The naturalistic option -- Natural meaning and experience -- Ethical and aesthetic meaning and experience -- Religious meaning and experience -- Religion and reality -- Contemporary non-realist religion -- The rationality of religious belief -- The pluralistic hypothesis -- The personae of the real -- The impersonae of the real -- Soteriology and ethics -- The ethical criterion -- Myth, mystery and the unanswered questions -- The problem of conflicting truth-claims.

"In this classic work, prominent religious philosopher John Hick presents a global interpretation of religion, arguing for a religious response to our ambiguous universe and showing how the world's different religions are culturally conditioned forms of that response. For this second edition, Hick addresses the major critics of his interpretation of religion, thereby enabling fresh discussion of his work."--Jacket.