The case for God /
Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality. While noting that the changing face of the world has necessarily changed the importance of religion at both the societal and the individual l...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Knopf,
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality. While noting that the changing face of the world has necessarily changed the importance of religion at both the societal and the individual level, she makes a powerful, convincing argument for drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 406 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [379]-390) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780307269188 (hardcover) 0307269183 (hardcover) |