Religion for Atheists
by Alain De Botton
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What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense?
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 entirely false - and yet that religions still have some very important things to teach the secular world.
Religion for Atheists suggests that rather than mocking religions, agnostics and atheists should instead steal from them - because they're packed with good ideas on how we might live and arrange our societies. Blending deep respect with total impiety, de Botton (a non-believer himself) proposes that we should look to religions for insights into, among other concerns, how to:
Build a sense of community
Make our relationships last
Overcome feelings of envy and inadequacy
Escape the twenty-four-hour media world
Go travelling
Get more out of art, architecture and music
And create new businesses designed to address our emotional needs.
For too long non-believers have faced a stark choice between either swallowing lots of peculiar doctrines or doing away with a range of consoling and beautiful rituals and ideas. At last, in Religion for Atheists, Alain de Botton, the author of the bestselling The Constellations of Philosophy and How Proust Can Change Your Life, has fashioned a far more interesting and truly helpful alternative.
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Alain de Botton is the author of essays on themes ranging from love and travel to architecture and philosophy. His best-selling books include How Proust Can Change Your Life, The Art of Travel and The Architecture of Happiness. He lives in London, where he is the founder and chairman of The School of Life (www.theschooloflife.com) and the creative director of Living Architecture (www.living-architecture.co.uk).
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- DASHbooks (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DASHbooks75
- Title
- Religion for Atheists
- Author
- Alain De Botton
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0241144779
- ISBN 13
- 9780241144770
- Publisher
- Penguin Group
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- religion for atheists, alain de botton, a non believers guide to the uses of religion,
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- Religion;
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