Global Christian Worship Music & Prayer Songs Collection - Inspirational Hymns & Devotional Poetry for Church, Home & Personal Meditation

I picked up this book primarily for the scored music section, and in that area I found the book very disappointing. Of 46 songs scored in the book, about half seem to be from either the Shaker or Unitarian Universalist hymnal, and all but one come from either American or European sources - and that one is by a Filipino Christian. The most interesting piece (to me, at least) is not even properly speaking a hymn at all, but a setting of a poem by Henry Longfellow.These choices, in my view, invalidate the title of the book. Given the title and the symbols of many religions on the cover, I came to it hoping to find actual sacred music from other religions, not just watered-down Christian or Christian-lite hymns chosen for their generality and inoffensiveness.I also was surprised to note, in the first section, "A Gathering of Prayers", how many of the selections are not, in fact, prayers of any kind, but general reflections and poetry excerpts that sometimes do not even have religious content to speak of.All in all, I have found most of the relevant material in other places (Andrew Harvey's "The Essential Mystics", for instance), and most of the material that is unique to this volume is not essential.