A little history of religion
- ISBN: 9780300283228
- Editorial: Yale University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2025
- Lugar de la edición: New Haven. Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Colección: Little Histories
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 20 cm
- Nº Pág.: 256
- Idiomas: Inglés
A rich and inclusive history of belief, from humanity's earliest days to our own times
Religion is distinctly human. We can't help wondering about where we come from and why we are here. Did some all-powerful being make the universe? When we die, is there anything else to come? And what will it be like? Questions like these have occupied human minds across the ages. In our search for answers, we have come up with different stories.
Richard Holloway tells the history of the major religions from the dawn of belief to the twenty-first century. Ranging far beyond Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism, he writes for those with faith and those without, and for those who might be making up their minds.
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Is anybody there?
The doors
The wheel
One into many
Prince to Buddha
Do no harm
The wanderer
In the bulrushes
The ten commandments
Prophets
The end
Heretic
The last battle
Worldly religion
The way to go
Stirring up the mud
Religion gets personal
The convert
The messiah
Jesus comes to Rome
The church takes charge
The last prophet
Submission
Struggle
Hell
Vicar of Christ
Protest
The big split
Nanak's reformation
The middle way
Beheading the beast
Friends
Made in America
Born in the USA
The great disappointment
Mystics and movie stars
Opening doors
Angry religion
Holy wars
The end of religion?