The Resource Religion as we know it : an origin story, Jack Miles
Religion as we know it : an origin story, Jack Miles
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The item Religion as we know it : an origin story, Jack Miles represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "A 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xl, 152 pages
- Contents
-
- Preamble: On starting from where we are
- Can religion be defined?
- How Christian Europe learned to compare religions
- Broadening the foundation, raising the roof
- Why religion?
- Isbn
- 9781324002789
- Label
- Religion as we know it : an origin story
- Title
- Religion as we know it
- Title remainder
- an origin story
- Statement of responsibility
- Jack Miles
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A 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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- LBSOR/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1942-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Miles, Jack
- Dewey number
- 200.9
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BL689
- LC item number
- .M55 2020
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Western countries
- Christianity
- Religion
- Religion and civilization
- Label
- Religion as we know it : an origin story, Jack Miles
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [141]-145) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Preamble: On starting from where we are -- Can religion be defined? -- How Christian Europe learned to compare religions -- Broadening the foundation, raising the roof -- Why religion?
- Control code
- on1108814968
- Dimensions
- 19 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xl, 152 pages
- Isbn
- 9781324002789
- Lccn
- 2019026444
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40029601350
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1108814968
- Label
- Religion as we know it : an origin story, Jack Miles
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [141]-145) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Preamble: On starting from where we are -- Can religion be defined? -- How Christian Europe learned to compare religions -- Broadening the foundation, raising the roof -- Why religion?
- Control code
- on1108814968
- Dimensions
- 19 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xl, 152 pages
- Isbn
- 9781324002789
- Lccn
- 2019026444
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40029601350
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1108814968
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