Religion as We Know It: An Origin Story

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Reference, History, Theology
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Author: Jack Miles ISBN: 9781324002796
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publication: November 12, 2019
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company Language: English
Author: Jack Miles
ISBN: 9781324002796
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication: November 12, 2019
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English

A brief, beautiful invitation to the study of religion from a Pulitzer Prize winner.

How did our forebears begin to think about religion as a distinct domain, separate from other activities that were once inseparable from it? Starting at the birth of Christianity—a religion inextricably bound to Western thought—Jack Miles reveals how the West’s “common sense” understanding of religion emerged and then changed as insular Europe discovered the rest of the world. Finally, in a moving postscript, he shows how this very story continues today in the minds and hearts of individual religious or irreligious men and women.

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A brief, beautiful invitation to the study of religion from a Pulitzer Prize winner.

How did our forebears begin to think about religion as a distinct domain, separate from other activities that were once inseparable from it? Starting at the birth of Christianity—a religion inextricably bound to Western thought—Jack Miles reveals how the West’s “common sense” understanding of religion emerged and then changed as insular Europe discovered the rest of the world. Finally, in a moving postscript, he shows how this very story continues today in the minds and hearts of individual religious or irreligious men and women.

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