Creating God

The Birth and Growth of Major Religions

Creating God
Robin Derricourt
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Hardback
h234 x 156mm - 304pg
17 May 2021 UK
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9781526156174
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What do we really know about how and where religions began, and how they spread? In this bold new book, award-winning author Robin Derricourt takes us on a journey through the birth and growth of several major religions, using history and archaeology to recreate the times, places and societies that witnessed the rise of significant monotheistic faiths. Beginning with Mormonism and working backwards through Islam, Christianity and Judaism to Zoroastrianism, Creating God opens up the conditions that allowed religious movements to emerge, attract their first followers and grow. Throughout history there have been many prophets: individuals who believed they were in direct contact with the divine, with instructions to spread a religious message. While many disappeared without trace, some gained millions of followers and established a lasting religion. In Creating God, Robin Derricourt has produced a brilliant, panoramic book that offers new insights on the origins of major religions and raises essential questions about why some succeeded where others failed.
' Religions are among the most potent inventions of the human imagination. This magisterial study will help us understand them not as divine, but as human constructs. ' Richard Holloway, author of Stories We Tell Ourselves ' An intriguing and sensitively presented survey of the often surprising links and continuities between some of the world' s great religions over three millennia. ' Diarmaid MacCulloch, author of A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years -- .
Robin Derricourt is an Honorary Professor of History in the School of Humanities at the University of New South Wales and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He holds a PhD in archaeology from the University of Cambridge. His previous books include Inventing Africa: History, Archaeology and Ideas (2011), Antiquity Imagined: The Remarkable Legacy of Egypt and the Ancient Near East (2015) and Unearthing Childhood: Young Lives in Prehistory (2018), which received the PROSE Award for Archaeology and Ancient History.
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ISBN-13: 9781526156174
Published: 17 May 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 304

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