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Strange Gods audiobook
- By: Susan Jacoby
- Category: General, History
- Length: 19 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: February 16, 2016
- Language: English
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Strange Gods Audiobook Summary
In this original and riveting exploration, Susan Jacoby argues that conversion-especially in the free American “religious marketplace”-is too often viewed only within the conventional and simplistic narrative of personal reinvention and divine grace. Instead, the author places conversions within a secular social context that has, at various times, included the force of a unified church and state, desire for upward economic mobility, and interreligious marriage.Moving through time, continents, and cultures, Jacoby examines conversions to authoritarian secular ideologies. She also provides portraits of individual converts, including the Catholic Church father Augustine of Hippo; the German Jewish convert to Catholicism Edith Stein, murdered at Auschwitz and canonized by the church; boxing champion Muhammad Ali, who scandalized white Americans in the 1960s by becoming a Muslim; and even politicians such as George W. Bush. Finally, Jacoby takes on the question of why the freedom to choose a religion-or to reject religion altogether-is a fundamental human rights issue that remains a breeding ground for violence in areas of the world that never experienced an Enlightenment.
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Strange Gods Full Details
| Length | 19 hours 33 minutes |
| Author | Susan Jacoby |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Tantor Media, Inc |
| Release date | February 16, 2016 |
| ISBN | 9781494587543 |
Additional info
The publisher of the Strange Gods is Tantor Media, Inc. The imprint is Tantor Media, Inc. It is supplied by Tantor Media, Inc. The ISBN-13 is 9781494587543.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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