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020			_a978-1324002789
040			_aPMNP _beng _cKutubkhanah Diraja
082			_a200.9
245			_aReligion as we know it _ban origin story _cJack Miles
250			_afirst edition
260			_aNew York, N.Y _bW. W. Norton & Company, Inc _c2020
300			_a152 pages _c19cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 141-145) and inde
520			_aA short, provocative book on religion from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. In his new book, acclaimed scholar Jack Miles poses a question: How did our forebears begin to think about religion as a distinct domain, separate from other activities that were once inseparable from it? Starting at the birth of Christianity-a religion inextricably bound to Western thought-Miles reveals how we in the West have come to isolate religion as an object of study, and how drastically our perception has changed over time and across societies. Through the break between the Christian and Jewish communities, the fall of the Roman Empire, the rise of Islam, and the growth of Western empires, Miles reveals how Western religious thought has always been based on comparison of the known with the emergent unknown. Religion as We Know It challenges readers to unmoor themselves from traditional thinking and observe how the events of the still-unfolding past continue to shape how we think of religion today"
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