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Religion as We Know It: An Origin Story

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By (author): Jack Miles

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 Christianitya religion inextricably bound to Western thoughtJack Miles reveals how the Wests 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. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 145g
  • Dimensions: 117 x 185mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Jan 2020
  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781324002789

About Jack Miles

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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