NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the New York Times bestselling author of The History of God--a nuanced exploration of the role of religion in our lives, drawing on insights of the past to build a faith for our dangerously polarized age. 'A stimulating, hopeful work. --NPR's All Things Considered Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time, when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith. Why has God become unbelievable? Why is it that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God in a way that veers so profoundly from the thinking of our ancestors?
