- Atheists, Religious life, Atheism
What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between believers and non-believers is finally moved forward by Alain de Botton's inspiring book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are entirely false--but that it still has some very important things to teach the secular world.
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Spare, contemporary, character-led and warm.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Alain De Botton
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books, Penguin Books
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307379108
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