Religion as We Know It: An Origin Story

by Jack Miles

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324002786
• ISBN13: 9781324002789
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.5" x 7.2"