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A review by nobodyatall
مختصر تاريخ الأديان by Richard Holloway
5.0
Read this after hearing about it in a reddit thread discussing books about religion. This was put forward as an excellent non partisan work on belief, god and religions.
It is pretty excellent. It covers all the big name religions over the last 4000 Year’s from Hinduism through to Scientology and Secular Humanism. It explores how the faiths developed and influenced each other and why people believe.
It seemed to me to be pretty balanced and doesn’t push any point or belief as right or wrong, leaving it all open to the reader. It comes from a perspective of ‘Humans and the things they believe in and the structures they build around these things are very interesting’ rather than the ‘I am right and this is why and everyone else is an idiot’ that you tend to get in a lot of works about faith.
I highly recommend it to anyone interested in humans and their religions.
It is pretty excellent. It covers all the big name religions over the last 4000 Year’s from Hinduism through to Scientology and Secular Humanism. It explores how the faiths developed and influenced each other and why people believe.
It seemed to me to be pretty balanced and doesn’t push any point or belief as right or wrong, leaving it all open to the reader. It comes from a perspective of ‘Humans and the things they believe in and the structures they build around these things are very interesting’ rather than the ‘I am right and this is why and everyone else is an idiot’ that you tend to get in a lot of works about faith.
I highly recommend it to anyone interested in humans and their religions.