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Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lenght to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that is called by many names, such as God, Brahman,Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism,Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impluse towards religion in our own time, when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith.