TY - BOOK ID - 134256559 TI - Religion as we know it : an origin story PY - 2020 SN - 9781324002789 PB - New York : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., DB - UniCat KW - Christianity KW - Religion KW - Religion and civilization. KW - Christianisme KW - Religion KW - Religion et civilisation KW - Influence. KW - Study and teaching KW - History. KW - Influence KW - étude et enseignement KW - Histoire KW - Western countries KW - Occident KW - Religion. KW - Religion UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134256559 AB - "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"-- ER -