The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
2. What Is Religion?
The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
David McConeghy [+]
David McConeghy holds a PhD in religious studies from the University of California, Santa
Barbara. For a decade he taught religious ethics, world religions, and American religious history at colleges in California and Massachusetts. He now works as a freelance software developer in Greater Boston. He published “Narrating the USA’s Religious Pluralism: Escaping World Religions through Media” in After World Religions, Edited by Christopher R. Cotter and David G. Robertson (London: Routledge, 2016).
Description
Religion once described what Romans did to appease their gods. By the nineteenth century, “religion” became a catchall term to identify, compare and denigrate Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and others.