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Title: A Narrow View
Review: This book starts with the premise that a religion must have an "agent" between the human and sublime to be considered for this inquiry. By beginning this way, it is aimed mostly at those revealed religions with which we are all broadly familiar. But it misses considering the more subtle spiritual ways of life that appear in human activity through the ages - and never addresses the roots of religion that can be found in looking at the entomology of the word, which by many accounts is derived from the Latin "ligare": to bind (with the suffix re - to bind again). The book then goes on in a nearly endless explanation of itself, enough for me to put it down halfway through. If you want something critical of institutional religion's negative influences, read Christopher Hitchens.
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