Is it possible to do justice to a subject as diverse as the history of religion in fewer than 250 pages? Can it really be more than the ‘Cook’s Tour’ of religions that good religious educators aim to avoid? Who would take on such a task, and why? In his latest book, A Little History of Religion, former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway, notable for his lifelong struggle to believe, explores four millennia of religious history and the theology that informs it, prompted by his interest in ‘the different ways people have asked the religious question’ (Yale University Press 2016).
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