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A Little History of Religion

By: Richard Holloway
Narrated by: James Bryce
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In an era of hardening religious attitudes and explosive religious violence, this book offers a welcome antidote. Richard Holloway retells the entire history of religion - from the dawn of religious belief to the 21st century - with deepest respect and a keen commitment to accuracy.

Writing for those with faith and those without, and especially for young listeners, he encourages curiosity and tolerance, accentuates nuance and mystery and calmly restores a sense of the value of faith.

Ranging far beyond the major world religions of Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, and Hinduism, Holloway also examines where religious belief comes from, the search for meaning throughout history, today's fascinations with Scientology and creationism, religiously motivated violence, hostilities between religious people and secularists and more.

Holloway proves an empathic yet discerning guide to the enduring significance of faith and its power from ancient times to our own.

©2016 Richard Holloway (P)2016 Audible, Ltd Christianity Philosophy Religious Studies Spirituality World Middle East Judaism Mormon
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A Little History of Religion is a really great listen and should be the way that religion is taught in schools. It doesn't focus on one specific religion and decry all others as we so often see in society. It gives equal weight to many religions and discusses how those religions came about and why they are the way that they are today. If this was how more people were exposed to religion early on it would create a lot more tolerance in today's world.

This is how 'Religion' should be taught

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How religion should be taught, no fluffing over the bad or over stating the good. Highly recommend

Brilliant

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Pretty good / factual overview of key religions. Well organised and structured. Good for a high level overview (doesn’t go too deep on any given religion). Found it a bit light on some in particular (eg very little on Judaism) but a good intro book across the board.

Well organised overview

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Fascinating insights, well balanced and sweeping narrative arc encompassing a large swathe of human history. The narration is well paced, lilting and entirely absorbing.

Epic

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A fascinating journey through religious history. Perfect to give a good birdseye view of how everything fits together. Brilliantly narrated
Thank you so much

Excellent

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I would not recommend this book if you are wanting a real understanding of different religions. The author is obviously not religious and views the different religions as fairy tales.

A book for atheists

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A well written book however it left a bad taste in my mouth about religion and how humans have treated it over history. definitely not a mood booster so look the other way if you're only after some fun facts because this was not fun. A difficult read for religious people but probably a good one for atheists.

interesting but depressing read

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I was looking for the history of religion as in its roots from pre history, the Stone Age onwards but this was still enjoyable enough

Not really what I was looking for but still good

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