James R. Lewis has written the first book to deal explicitly with the issue of how emerging religions legitimate themselves. He contends that a new religion has at least four different, though overlapping, areas where legitimacy is a concern: making converts, maintaining followers, shaping public opinion, and appeasing government authorities.

The book examines the contours of relationship between India and the Middle East, before the political frontiers of the both the regions were fashioned in the middle of the twentieth century. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and

A visitor to a Tibetan monastery in the 1890s discovered this intriguing, controversial account of Christ's life from the ages of 13 to 29, when Jesus reputedly studied in Asia among Buddhists.

Books about The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ

Based on the author's thesis (Th.D.)--Leiden University, 1971.