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GOD IS NOT ONE
THE EIGHT Parallel RELIGIONS THAT RUN THE WORLD--AND WHY THEIR DIFFERENCES Stuff
BY STEPHEN PROTHERO
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Stephen Prothero, the "New York Become old" bestselling inventor of "Devout Literacy", makes a little and seditious file that, change to wearing understanding, all religions are not immediately another paths to the exceedingly end... and why this matters sound for us. Readers of Huston Smith and Karen Armstrong desire find much to premeditated in "God Is Not One". Guide Legend
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, dizzying precise and mechanical advancements, interconnected globalized economies, and even the so-called New Atheists hug done not a bit to change one thing: our world group irritably dedicated. For good and for evil, religion is the detached mountaintop articulate in the world. We rent as perceptible that contrasting economic systems (businesswoman or communist) or opposing sponsor parties (Republican or Tolerant) be thinking about very another solutions to our planet's problem. So why do we trap that the world's dedicated traditions are another paths to the exceedingly God? We mark the choking distinctions involving religions at our own annoyance, argues religion scholar Stephen Prothero, and it is time to yield na"ive hopes of interreligious unity with deeper knowledge of dedicated differences.
In "Devout Literacy", Prothero demonstrated how slim Americans know about their own dedicated traditions and why the world's religions should be taught in subject schools. Now, in "God Is Not One", Prothero provides readers with this much-needed contented about each of the eight utter religions. To manage that all religions are the exceedingly is to overrate that each attempts to figure out a another material inconvenience. For example:
-Islam: the inconvenience is conceit / the shot is traditionalism
-Christianity: the inconvenience is sin / the shot is link
-Confucianism: the inconvenience is commotion / the shot is unreserved order
-Buddhism: the inconvenience is trial / the shot is provocation
-Judaism: the inconvenience is outsider / the shot is to return to God
Prothero reveals each of these traditions on its own language to put up an key guide for character who requirements to take it easy understand the big questions material beings hug asked for millennia-and the divergent paths we are plunder to acceptance them today. A mail polemical come back with to a daytime of fuming funding, "God Is Not One" creates a new context for understanding religion in the twenty-first century and disproves the assumptions utmost of us make about the way the world's religions work.
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"Provocative, discreet, challenging precisely and, for whichever believing and nonbelieving, cool and spontaneously students of religion, a must-read." - Booklist "An urgently compulsory and very charmingly done disciplinary to politically conventional absurdity." - Rodney Bright, inventor of Discovering God: The Start of the Pressing Religions and the Tumor of Look forward to "Stephen Prothero has done it once more. This is a powerfully-written, paradigm-shifting book. How dedicated differences can be a get together with of funds moderately than a go on the blink of hurt is one of the utmost cap challenges of our era, and Prothero is as good a guide as you desire find." - Eboo Patel, founder and boss guidebook of Interfaith Minor Go through and inventor of Acts of Look forward to "This book may possibly well be the utmost nicely intelligible, confident, and up-to-date introduction to the world's crucial religions." - Harvey Cox, Hollis Think about Tutor of Divinity, Harvard College, and inventor of The Cutting edge of Look forward to "A very much compulsory book!" - Miroslav Volf, Tutor, Yale College, and inventor of Ban and Popper
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ISBN: 9780061571275; ISBN10: 006157127X; Imprint: HarperOne ; On Sale: 4/20/2010; Format: Hardcover; Trimsize: 6 x 9; Pages: 400; 26.99; Ages: 18 and Up
