zosiablue's review against another edition
4.0
"You may die never having learned the one fact that would have changed everything for you."
Jack Miles is one of my favorite author discoveries this year. I've finally found someone who writes about religion in a way I feel in my gut. This is a short one, a standalone intro to a World Religions textbook, that I checked out because I wanted to know more about the very first time humans considered religion. The answer to that was - we don't know because written history came later and religion surely came prior - but I enjoyed all of this anyway. I'm so glad he has more books for me to read.
Jack Miles is one of my favorite author discoveries this year. I've finally found someone who writes about religion in a way I feel in my gut. This is a short one, a standalone intro to a World Religions textbook, that I checked out because I wanted to know more about the very first time humans considered religion. The answer to that was - we don't know because written history came later and religion surely came prior - but I enjoyed all of this anyway. I'm so glad he has more books for me to read.
sophronisba's review against another edition
3.0
I think this might have worked better as an introduction to a larger work (which was its origin) than as a standalone long essay. But I do recommend Miles's God: A Biography.
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