From the internationally bestselling author of Zealot comes a fascinating, provocative and meticulously researched history of humanity's relationship with the divine.
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.
A brief and lively history... Extraordinary.
*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.
*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*
Breathtaking in its scope and controversial in its claims, God: A
Human History shows how humans from time immemorial have made God
in their own image, and argues that they now should stop. Writing
with all the verve and brilliance we have come to expect from his
pen, Reza Aslan has once more produced a book that will prompt
reflection and shatter assumptions.
*Bart D. Ehrman, author of How Jesus Became God*
Tantalizing . . . Driven by [Reza] Aslan’s grace and curiosity, God
. . . helps us pan out from our troubled times, while asking us to
consider a more expansive view of the divine in contemporary
life.
*The Seattle Times*
Aslan is a born storyteller, and there is much to enjoy in this
intelligent survey.
*San Francisco Chronicle*
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