In a groundbreaking historical work that focuses on the long, tense convergence of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam with an uncompromising secular perspective, Susan Jacoby illuminates the social and economic forces that have shaped individual faith and the voluntary conversion impulse that has changed the course of Western history--for better and for worse.4/5(2). · In Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion, Susan Jacoby looks at conversion stories from a secular standpoint. She discusses various reasons people have and do switch religions, not all of them even having to do with the person themself believing they've found the right religion/5. The same can be said about ‘Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion’ which was published in While Ms. Jacoby does make snarky remarks, the book is not dripping with vitriol. ‘Strange Gods’ is not some godless rant in an effort to persuade the reader to ditch their faith/5(39).
Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion is a plea for mutual respect between believers and secularists. Jacobi's argument that secularists are second-class citizens is convincing. Bernie Sanders is a secular Jew, she points out. He says, "I feel culturally Jewish.". He is openly secular, but Jacobi laments many understand what that. Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion (Pantheon, ) Beginning with Saul blinded by the light on the road to Damascus, Strange Gods, offers a provocative and original exploration of the cultural, economic and political forces driving religious conversion in the Western world. Most histories and personal accounts of religious. Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion, by Susan Jacoby (New York: Pantheon, , ISBN ) pp. Hardcover, $ Susan Jacoby, one of secularism's leading public intellectuals, is back, this time with a wide-ranging history of a phenomenon one might not expect a secular historian to tackle: religious conversion.
Overview. In a groundbreaking historical work that focuses on the long, tense convergence of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam with an uncompromising secular perspective, Susan Jacoby illuminates the social and economic forces that have shaped individual faith and the voluntary conversion impulse that has changed the course of Western history—for better and for worse. In a groundbreaking historical work that addresses religious conversion in the West from an uncompromisingly secular perspective, Susan Jacoby challenges the conventional narrative of conversion as a purely spiritual journey. Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion is a plea for mutual respect between believers and secularists. Jacobi’s argument that secularists are second-class citizens is convincing. Bernie Sanders is a secular Jew, she points out. He says, “I feel culturally Jewish.” He is openly secular, but Jacobi laments many understand what that means.
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