A Little History of
Religion by Richard Holloway, is part of the “Little History” series, which
I was not well aware of; the author does a fine job of zeroing in and out of
nearly all world religions.
Inevitably,
in the act of summation, he misses elements. His chapter on Judaism fails to treat it as a
living religion. He must, in order to
keep the narrative moving forward, portray it as the mother religion of
Christianity and Islam.
Things like this worry me; if there is a glaring flaw in a topic I know well, what of other traditions, like Bahia, for which I know close to nothing?
Yet I can’t fault the book for
its clarity and scope. For people who
know only a smattering about religion, this is a great jumping off point to further study.
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