"An admirable and impressive work of synthesis that will give insight and satisfaction to thousands of lay readers." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD In this stunningly intelligent book, Karen Armstrong, one of Britain's foremost commentators on religious affairs, traces the history of how men and women have perceived and experienced God, from the time of Abraham to the present. ...(展开全部)

Over 700,000 copies of the original hardcover and paperback editions of this stunningly popular book have been sold. Karen Armstrong's superbly readable exploration of how the three dominant monotheistic religions of the world—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—have shaped and altered the conception of God is a tour de force. One of Britain's foremost commentators on religious ...(展开全部)

作者簡介 姓名：馬汀‧古德曼Martin Goodman 牛津大學猶太研究的教授與希伯來及猶太研究中心的主任。他是牛津大學沃爾森學院和英國國家學術院的成員。他所著的《羅馬與耶路撒冷》（Rome and Jerusalem, Allen Lane, 2007）被認為是羅馬帝國之猶太人這個研究領域中的翹楚。他在2002年編撰了《牛津猶太研究手冊》，贏得國家猶太書籍獎。 譯者簡介 姓名：羅亞琪 畢業於輔大跨文化研究所翻譯學碩士班。興趣廣泛，對文字、語言情有獨鍾，譯作包括《鮮味的祕密》、《看得見的符號》、《黑猩猩政治學》、《地圖上的城市史》、《冰層裡的航線》等書，目標是有朝一日能將譯作擺滿整個書櫃。

作者簡介 姓名：馬汀‧古德曼Martin Goodman 牛津大學猶太研究的教授與希伯來及猶太研究中心的主任。他是牛津大學沃爾森學院和英國國家學術院的成員。他所著的《羅馬與耶路撒冷》（Rome and Jerusalem, Allen Lane, 2007）被認為是羅馬帝國之猶太人這個研究領域中的翹楚。他在2002年編撰了《牛津猶太研究手冊》，贏得國家猶太書籍獎。 譯者簡介 姓名：羅亞琪 畢業於輔大跨文化研究所翻譯學碩士班。興趣廣泛，對文字、語言情有獨鍾，譯作包括《鮮味的祕密》、《看得見的符號》、《黑猩猩政治學》、《地圖上的城市史》、《冰層裡的航線》等書，目標是有朝一日能將譯作擺滿整個書櫃。

A panoramic history of Judaism from its origins to the present Judaism is by some distance the oldest of the three Abrahamic religions. Despite the extraordinarily diverse forms it has taken, the Jewish people have believed themselves bound to God by the same covenant for more than three thousand years. This book explains how Judaism came to be and how it has developed from one...(展开全部)

This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith begins his narrative more than a thousand years before ...(展开全部)

Opening with the provocative query “what might an anthropology of the secular look like?” this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and the Middle East. Talal Asad proceeds to dismantle commonly held assumptions about the...(展开全部)

Opening with the provocative query “what might an anthropology of the secular look like?” this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and the Middle East. Talal Asad proceeds to dismantle commonly held assumptions about the...(展开全部)

Opening with the provocative query “what might an anthropology of the secular look like?” this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and the Middle East. Talal Asad proceeds to dismantle commonly held assumptions about the...(展开全部)

Opening with the provocative query “what might an anthropology of the secular look like?” this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and the Middle East. Talal Asad proceeds to dismantle commonly held assumptions about the...(展开全部)