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God by Reza Aslan
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The acclaimed author of Zealot examines humanity's quest to make sense of the divine in this "timely, riveting, enlightening, and necessary" (HuffPost) history of our understanding of God."A fascinating exploration of the interaction of our humanity and God."--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
In Zealot, Reza Aslan replaced the staid, well-worn portrayal of Jesus of Nazareth with a startling new image of the man in all his contradictions. Now, Aslan takes on a subject even more immense: God, writ large.
With thoughtful, accessible scholarship, Aslan narrates the history of religion as one long and remarkably cohesive attempt to know the divine by giving it human traits and emotions. According to Aslan, this innate desire to humanize God is hardwired in our brains, making it a central feature of nearly every religious tradition. As a result, we bestow upon God not just all that is good in human nature--our compassion, our thirst for justice--but all that is bad in it: our greed, our bigotry, our penchant for violence.
More than just a history, God is an attempt to get to the root of this humanizing impulse in order to develop a more universal spirituality. Whether you believe in one God, many gods, or no god at all, God: A Human History will challenge the way you think about the divine and its role in our everyday lives.
Reza Aslan is an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions. His first book, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, has been translated into thirteen languages and named by Blackwell as one of the hundred most important books of the last decade. He is also the author of How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror (published in paperback as Beyond Fundamentalism), as well as the editor of Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East. Born in Iran, he lives in New York and Los Angeles with his wife and two sons.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780553394740 |
| ISBN 10 | 0553394746 |
| Title | God |
| Author | Reza Aslan |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2019-04-09 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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