Features over 3,500 entries and 32 pages of color art and maps. Developed in cooperation with Encyclopædia Britannica.

Includes maps of: Principal Religious Centers of Ancient Anatolia; Geographic Distribution of Aboriginals; World Distribution of Buddhism; Important Sites and Routes of Expansion of Early Buddhism; Apostolic Voyages; World Distribution of Christianity; World Religions; World Distribution of Hinduism; Worldwide Distribution of Islam; Principal Jain Temples and Pilgrimage Sites; World Distribution of Judaism; Major Archaeological Sites of Mesopotamia; Cultural Distribution of Native North Americans; Cultural Distribution of Native South Americans; Sites of Meso-American Civilization; Sites of Andean Civilization; Sacred Places and Temples of Shinto; Important Sikh Temples and Pilgrimage Sites.