I'm looking for non-bias Religious History, Facts only. No theories or opinions. ?

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woogglybear

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I am looking for non-bias, non-opinionated religious history. Just the Facts. example: "this happened this date", "this was changed by this guy during this time period", etc... Karen Armstrong and Carl Jung both throw in their theories and opinions on how we may have been or what they think we were thinking. I want just the facts, without a christian or anti-christian view point and without someones own personal ideas. Any suggestions?
 
If you're interested in Christianity, try the New Catholic Encyclopedia (15 volumes). As a reference book, it tries to keep an objective editorial style. You could also read the Roman historians, though they weren't focused specifically on religion.

If you're interested in other religions, maybe the World Religions Recerence Library would be helpful. It's another multi-volume set of encyclopedias.

If you'e interested in the religions of pre-litereary societies like pagan Europe, you're pretty much stuck with personal ideas, as there is pretty much no other record (since the people didn't record their history).

You can probably find the Catholic Encyclopedia and the World Religions titles at your local library.
 
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