Religion: A Very Short Introduction

by Thomas A Tweed

Book Overview

Religion plays a central role in human experience. Billions of people around the world practice a faith and act in accordance with it. Religion shapes how they enter the world and how they leave it - how they eat, dress, marry, and raise their children. It shapes their assumptions about who they are and who they want to be. Religion also identifies insiders and outsiders, who has power and who doesn't. It sanctifies injustice and combats it. It draws...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190064676
• ISBN13: 9780190064679
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.3" x 6.8"