Stephen Prothero - God is not one: The Eight Rival Religions Tha torrent

Print Length: 404 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 006157127X
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books; Reprint edition (April 20, 2010)
Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
Language: English

Publication Date: April 20, 2010

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, dizzying scientific and technological advancements, interconnected globalized economies, and even the so-called New Atheists have done nothing to change one thing: our world remains furiously religious. For good and for evil, religion is the single greatest influence in the world. We accept as self-evident that competing economic systems (capitalist or communist) or clashing political parties (Republican or Democratic) propose very different solutions to our planet's problems. So why do we pretend that the world's religious traditions are different paths to the same God? We blur the sharp distinctions between religions at our own peril, argues religion scholar Stephen Prothero, and it is time to replace naÏve hopes of interreligious unity with deeper knowledge of religious differences.