God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter (Enhanced Edition)

God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter (Enhanced Edition)

by Stephen Prothero
God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter (Enhanced Edition)

God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter (Enhanced Edition)

by Stephen Prothero

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Overview

In a bold polemical response to a generation of misguided scholarship, God Is Not One creates a new context for understanding religion in the twenty-first century and disproves the assumptions most of us make about the way the world’s religions work. In addition to the complete book you can read an exclusive author essay, take a quiz, receive a course guide and watch an exclusive author video where Stephen Prothero describes his spiritual journey.

To claim that all religions are the same is to misunderstand that each attempts to solve a different human problem. For example:

–Islam: the problem is pride / the solution is submission

–Christianity: the problem is sin / the solution is salvation

–Confucianism: the problem is chaos / the solution is social order

–Buddhism: the problem is suffering / the solution is awakening

–Judaism: the problem is exile / the solution is to return to God

Prothero reveals each of these traditions on its own terms to create an indispensable guide for anyone who wants to better understand the big questions human beings have asked for millennia—and the disparate paths we are taking to answer them today.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062011428
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 07/27/2010
Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
Format: eBook
Pages: 400
Sales rank: 107,790
File size: 37 MB
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About the Author

Stephen Prothero is the New York Times bestselling author of Religious Literacy and God Is Not One and a professor of religion at Boston University. His work has been featured on the cover of TIME magazine, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, NPR, and other top national media outlets. He writes and reviews for the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, The Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Slate, and other publications. Visit the author at www.stephenprothero.com or follow his tweets @sprothero.

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