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“Timely, riveting, enlightening and necessary.”—HuffPost“Tantalizing . . . Driven by [Reza] Aslan’s grace and curiosity, God . . . helps us pan out from our troubled times, while asking us to consider a more expansive view of the divine in contemporary life.”—The Seattle Times “A fascinating exploration of the interaction of our humanity and God.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “[Reza Aslan’s] slim, yet ambitious book [is] the story of how humans have created God with a capital G, and it’s thoroughly mind-blowing.”—Los Angeles Review of Books “Aslan is a born storyteller, and there is much to enjoy in this intelligent survey.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Extraordinary . . . clear, concise [and] lively.”—The Spectator“Breathtaking in its scope and controversial in its claims, God: A Human History shows how humans from time immemorial have made God in their own image, and argues that they should now stop. Writing with all the verve and brilliance we have come to expect from his pen, Reza Aslan has once more produced a book that will prompt reflection and shatter assumptions.”—Bart D. Ehrman, author of How Jesus Became God “Reza Aslan offers so much to relish in his excellent ‘human history’ of God. In tracing the commonalities that unite religions, Aslan makes truly challenging arguments that believers in many traditions will want to mull over, and to explore further. This rewarding book is very ambitious in its scope, and it is thoroughly grounded in an impressive body of reading and research.”—Philip Jenkins, author of Crucible of Faith

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About the Author

Reza Aslan is an acclaimed writer and scholar of religions whose books include No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam and Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. He is also the author of How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror (published in paperback as Beyond Fundamentalism), as well as the editor of Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three sons.

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Product details

Hardcover: 320 pages

Publisher: Random House (November 7, 2017)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 055339472X

ISBN-13: 978-0553394726

Product Dimensions:

6.5 x 1.1 x 9.7 inches

Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.2 out of 5 stars

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We've seen a goodly number of recent "biographies" of God, and this is an interesting addition to the genre. Those who read the book seeking confirmation or disconfirmation of their own faith won't find either of these here (except in a brief conclusion plugging pantheism): it's simply a history of the concept of God as it has developed over the millennia, all the way from ancient cave paintings to the present.The book has an enormous section of footnotes, and these should not be skipped, since in many ways they are more interesting than the text is. For each chapter, we get quite a thorough discussion of the various controversies and contradictory views: What was the purpose and meaning of cave art? Was Akhenaten really a monotheist? Etc., etc. Interesting and worth reading. But this is also what had me tearing my hair out! After reading the footnotes, it's clear, for example, that nobody really is sure what was going on with those cave paintings. But in the text, we find Aslan calmly asserting (with no real evidence) that the well-known Breuil drawing often called "The Sorceror" was intended as the earliest known representation of God. It's a case of "The large print giveth but the small print (well, the footnotes anyway) taketh away."Another example: where and when and why did Judaism become monotheistic and leave behind the henotheistic view that other gods might exist but were subordinate? ("No other gods BEFORE me") In some ways this is the central point of the book, since the origin of monotheism is probably the most significant development in God's biography. Well, we get a good discussion in the text and footnotes, but (spoiler alert!) at the end of this chapter he leaves all this scholarship behind (footnotes suddenly disappear) in favor of a speculative claim that this was due to the Babylonian captivity: Marduk's defeat of Yahweh gave rise to cognitive dissonance and made the Jews decide to go all the way and insist that Marduk didn't even exist. I think few will find this, or many of his other conclusions convincing. The book is worth reading and I learned a lot. But don't believe everything you read.

If you read Reza Aslan's book "Zealot," do not expect this book to be the same or even the same style. That is not a criticism but a credit to Reza's immense scholarship. God-a human history takes on a topic of massive scope and brings information together from many different disciplines and puts it in a readable format. Reza introduces the earliest evidences of humans relating to a god. For example, if describes a one inch feminine idol that was found in Israel that dated back about 300,000 years, which predates Homo sapiens. Very deep subject matters are covered such as whether or not the god concept developed in service of early beings or was it hard wired. Many early people and cultures are considered. It was interesting to note that the earliest communication on cave walls was done by women and that the same symbols were used in caves on opposite sides of the world. Reza Aslan shows the flow that ultimately developed into the major religions of today. Those are just some tidbits but there is much, much, more. It was a good read for me and it led my mind in many fascinating directions. Aslan's work isn't just conjecture but is well documented. He has 105 pages of notes that allow the reader to verify what he says and follow the research deeper into other directions if he or she so chooses.

I devoured this book in a day or two, I didn't want to put it down. Growing up Catholic, but leaving the church as an adolescent, and now a deep spiritual person without religion, I found this book to be just what I needed. Aslan writes in a way that speaks to theological academics as well as spiritual lay people like myself. This book gave me a lot to think about, questions to ponder, and relief to see in writing beliefs I have always carried, but didn't know the historical facts to back up.Upon finishing God, I bought and read Zealot, another one of Aslan's books.I look forward to reading his other books, and possibly even starting a book club with my community to start conversation about the nature of God.

More like a "personal" history, Azlan silences the critics who complained that "Zealot" wasn't footnoted sufficiently, but this will garner a whole new range of criticism for its primarily-Western "people of the book" approach to God, but it's really more how Azlan himself has sifted and sorted through his prodigious religious knowledge to come to an understanding of the unity of God. An an unbeliever, I appreciate his scholarship, his synthesis, and his knowledge of the West; I remain perplexed how someone who can parse the development of ideas and trace them back to their mythic sources can remain a believer in a Supreme Being. But that aside, he's a terrific writer and thinker. I liked "Zealot" even more because it was so focused on the development of how Jesus became central to Christianity, and how the actual human being (assuming that he actually lived, and that at least I believe) fit into his own Zeitgeist.

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