The True Believers: Oddities And Curiosities Of Religious Faith
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Religion has always attracted the devout, the eccentric, and the utterly inexplicable — and The True Believers: Oddities and Curiosities of Religious Faith gathers the most bizarre and baffling examples into one irresistible compendium. Peter Bowler chronicles the stranger fringes of religious practice and belief, presenting a rich parade of cults, prophets, rituals, and doctrines that defy conventional expectation, all rendered with a wry and knowing wit that keeps the reader perpetually off-balance. Bowler's style is that of the seasoned raconteur — dry, precise, and quietly devastating — drawing on a tradition of British humour that finds the absurd lurking just beneath the sacred. The work sits comfortably alongside classic volumes of comic reference, arguing implicitly that faith, in its most extreme human expressions, reveals as much about our need for meaning as it does about our capacity for self-delusion. For anyone who has ever wondered just how strange organised belief can become, this volume promises answers more extraordinary than the questions.
Author: Peter Bowler
Format: Paperback
Published: 1986, Methuen
Genre: Religion
Condition remarks:
Paperback
Secondhand book: generally 'Very Good' to 'Excellent'. These are books which may have some slight wear and tear or sun fading on the edges. There may be an inscription at the front.
Religion has always attracted the devout, the eccentric, and the utterly inexplicable — and The True Believers: Oddities and Curiosities of Religious Faith gathers the most bizarre and baffling examples into one irresistible compendium. Peter Bowler chronicles the stranger fringes of religious practice and belief, presenting a rich parade of cults, prophets, rituals, and doctrines that defy conventional expectation, all rendered with a wry and knowing wit that keeps the reader perpetually off-balance. Bowler's style is that of the seasoned raconteur — dry, precise, and quietly devastating — drawing on a tradition of British humour that finds the absurd lurking just beneath the sacred. The work sits comfortably alongside classic volumes of comic reference, arguing implicitly that faith, in its most extreme human expressions, reveals as much about our need for meaning as it does about our capacity for self-delusion. For anyone who has ever wondered just how strange organised belief can become, this volume promises answers more extraordinary than the questions.