God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run The World [Paperback]

InGod is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World,New York Timesbestselling author of Religious Literacy and religion scholar Stephen Prothero argues that persistent attempts to portray all religions as different paths to the same God overlook the distinct problem that each tradition seeks to solve. Delving into the different problems and solutions that Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Confucianism, Yoruba Religion, Daoism and Atheism strive to combat,God is Not Oneis an indispensable guide to the questions human beings have asked for millennia—and to the disparate paths we are taking to answer them today. Readers of Huston Smith and Karen Armstrong will find much to ponder inGod is Not One.

In the twenty-first century, religion remains the single greatest influencein the world. But, argues religion scholar Stephen Prothero, persistentattempts to portray all religions as different paths to the same God overlookthe distinct human problem that each seeks to solve. For example:

Islam: the problem is pride / the solution is submission

Christianity: the problem is sin / the solution is salvation

Buddhism: the problem is suffering / the solution is awakening

Judaism: the problem is exile / the solution is to return to God

God Is Not Oneis an indispensable guide to the questions human beingshave asked for millennia—and to the disparate paths we are taking toanswer them today.

enormously timely, thoughtful and balancedGod is Not One is 2010s must-read for anyone religiously illiterate&.Dont know much about the worlds faiths? Get a copy now.Provocative, thoughtful, fiercely intelligent and, for both believing and nonbelieving, formal and informal students of religion, a must-read.An urgently needed and very nicely done corrective to politically correct nonsense.Stephen Prothero has done it again. This is a powerfully-wrlW