Religion as We Know It: An Origin Story by Miles, Jack

Religion as We Know It: An Origin Story

How did our forebears begin to think about religion as a distinct domain, separate from other activities...
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Author: Jack Miles
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Religion as We Know It: An Origin Story by Miles, Jack

Religion as We Know It: An Origin Story

$39.50

Religion as We Know It: An Origin Story

$39.50
Author: Jack Miles
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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. In a moving postscript, he shows how this very story continues today in the hearts of individual religious or irreligious men and women.



Author: Jack Miles
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/12/2019
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.20h x 4.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781324002789


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/19/2019
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2019
Library Journal 11/01/2019 pg. 89
Booklist 11/15/2019 pg. 22

About the Author
Miles, Jack: - Jack Miles is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Religious Studies with the University of California at Irvine and Senior Fellow for Religious Affairs with the Pacific Council on International Policy. He spent 1960-1970 as a Jesuit seminarian, studying at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem before enrolling at Harvard University, where he completed a Ph.D. in Near Eastern languages in 1971. His book God: A Biography won a Pulitzer Prize in 1996. Its sequel Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God led to his being named a MacArthur Fellow for 2003-2007. The third in this trilogy, God in the Qur'an, was published in 2018. Miles is general editor of The Norton Anthology of World Religions and, most recently, the author of Religion As We Know It: An Origin Story.

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