“There is something fresh and distinctive about Feldmeier’s approach to religions that serves as a timely corrective to so many textbooks on the same themes. Religions are too often presented as some exotic doctrinal system for conceptual analysis or some curious relic for historical investigation. Rather, for Feldmeier, religions are to be encountered and experienced. In his hands, religions no longer appear as so many isms but as living, evolving, and above all, mystical realities that expand and transform one’s spiritual perspective and way of life. Professors and students who are bored to tears by bone-dry religion textbooks that every year swamp college campuses will rejoice in having Feldmeier’s book at their disposal. They can now have a cor ad cor [heart to heart] conversation with the religious Other they encounter.”