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God

  • Imprint: Corgi

  • ISBN: 9780552174992

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 127mm

  • Weight: 252g

  • RRP: £9.99

God

  • A Human History

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

In God, Reza Aslan sheds new light on mankind’s relationship with the divine and challenges our perspective on the history of faith and the birth of religion.

From the origins of spiritual thought to the concept of an active, engaged, divine presence that underlies all creation, Aslan examines how the idea of god arose in human evolution, was gradually personalized, endowed with human traits and emotions, and eventually transformed into a single Divine Personality: the God known today by such names as Yahweh, Father, and Allah.

Bold, wide-ranging and provocative, God challenges everything we thought we knew about the origins of religious belief, and with it our relationship with life and death, with the natural and spiritual worlds, and our understanding of the very essence of human existence.

  • Imprint: Corgi

  • ISBN: 9780552174992

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 127mm

  • Weight: 252g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • A brief and lively history... Extraordinary.

    Alexander Waugh, Spectator

  • Aslan turns Genesis on its head. The extent of our divine anthropomorphism is fascinating. As an introductory biography of a figure who has good claim to be called the most influential of all time, it is interesting indeed.

    Catherine Nixey, The Sunday Times

  • Timely, riveting, enlightening and necessary.

    Huffington Post

  • [Aslan’s] slim, yet ambitious book [is] the story of how humans have created God with a capital G, and it’s thoroughly mind-blowing.

    Los Angeles Review of Books

  • Reza Aslan offers so much to relish in his excellent ‘Human History’ of God. In tracing the commonalities that unite religions, Aslan makes truly challenging arguments that believers in many traditions will want to explore further, and to mull over. This rewarding book is very ambitious in its scope, and it is thoroughly grounded in an impressive body of reading and research.

    Philip Jenkins, author of Crucible of Faith

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About the Author

Reza Aslan

Reza Aslan is an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions. He is also a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. At Harvard, Aslan was elected president of Harvard's chapter of the World Conference on Religion and Peace, a UN organisation committed to global understanding. His is first book, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam, has been translated into thirteen languages and named by Blackwells as one of the hundred most important books of the last decade. Currently teaching an introductory course on Islam at Iowa, Aslan is also at work on a novel.

Reza Aslan

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