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For God's Sake

For God's Sake 1

An Atheist, a Christian, a Muslim and a Jew Debate Religion

by Antony LoewensteinRachel Woodlock Simon Smart and others
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/07/2013
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Four Australian thinkers come together to ask and answer the big questions, such as:
What is the nature of the universe? Doesn't religion cause most of the conflict in the world? and Where do we find hope?

We are introduced to the detail of different belief systems - Judaism, Christianity, Islam - and to the argument that atheism, like organised religion, has its own compelling logic. And we gain insight into the life events that led each author to their current position.

Jane Caro flirted briefly with spiritual belief, inspired by 19th century literary heroines such as Elizabeth Gaskell and the Bronte sisters. Antony Lowenstein is proudly culturally, yet unconventionally, Jewish. Simon Smart is firmly and resolutely a Christian, but one who has had some of his most profound spiritual moments while surfing. Rachel Woodlock grew up in the alternative embrace of Baha'i belief but became entranced by its older parent religion, Islam.

Provocative, informative and passionately argued, For God's Sake encourages us to accept religious differences but to also challenge more vigorously the beliefs that create discord.
ISBN:
9781742612232
9781742612232
Category:
Philosophy of religion
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-07-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
320
Dimensions (mm):
233x155x24mm
Weight:
0.45kg
Antony Loewenstein

Antony Loewenstein is a Jerusalem-based Australian journalist who has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, the BBC, The Washington Post, The Nation, Huffington Post, Haaretz, and many others. He is the author of Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe; the writer/co-producer of the associated documentary, Disaster Capitalism; and the co-director of an Al-Jazeera English film on the opioid drug tramadol. His other books include My Israel Question and The Blogging Revolution, and he is the co-editor of the books Left Turn and After Zionism, and is a contributor to For God's Sake.

Jane Caro

Jane Caro AM is a Walkley Award-winning Australian columnist, author, novelist, broadcaster, advertising writer, documentary maker, feminist and social commentator.

Jane appears frequently on Q&A, The Drum and Sunrise. She has created and presented five documentary series for ABC's Compass, airing in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. She and Catherine Fox present a popular podcast with Podcast One, Austereo 'Women With Clout'. She writes regular columns in Sunday Life.

She has published twelve books, including Just a Girl, Just a Queen and Just Flesh & Blood, a young adult trilogy about the life of Elizabeth Tudor, and the memoir Plain Speaking Jane. She created and edited Unbreakable which featured stories women writers had never told before and was published just before the Harvey Weinstein revelations. Her most recent non-fiction work is Accidental Feminists, about the fate of women over 50. The Mother is her first novel for adults

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This book is a series of essays answering questions about our world and the relationship of religion. They are answered by an Atheist, a Christian, a Jew and a Muslim. Whilst some of the essays were very interesting and thought provoking, some arguments were not so. This is a book that would influence each of us differently as of course we all have our own views and beliefs, and on some of the topics our views are strong and well embedded in our personality and way of thinking. Whilst I read the book all in one hit it is a book that can be put down and returned to over time as each essay is not too long.

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