- Religion, philosophy, Religion and sociology, Atheism, Spiritual life
The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain de Botton's inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are of course entirely false - and yet that religions still have some very important things to teach the secular world.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Alain De Botton
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, Hamish Hamilton
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780241144770
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