content: I'm a sophomore in college, an intern at my church and excited to engage further in the study of religion. (For the record, I love reading, and my poor review isn't rated on the sense that I just am biased against all required reading.)With all honesty, I haven't been able to read more than 5 pages at a time. On average, 2 out of 5 times I almost always fall asleep. Paden tries to sound like a remarkable author in his language, but only confuses the reader more. He lacks elaborating more on subjects of religions, and focuses simply (at least in my opinion) on bashing specific religions. Instead Paden ends by proposing more of a "co-exist" theory.Walking away having read it, I didn't learn anything helpful. I refuse to say that I've gotten anything out of this book, and unfortunately it's only one of the required readings from my professor. I can only hope the others aren't nearly as terrible.