Alain de Botton's Religion for Atheists" looks at the God debate with fresh eyes. All of us whether religious agnostic or atheist are searching for meaning. & in this wise & life-affirming book non-believer Alain de Botton both rejects the supernatural claims of religion & points out just how many good ideas they sometimes have about how we should live. & he suggests that non-believers can learn & steal from them. Picking & choosing from the thousands of years of advice assembled by the world's great religions to get practical insights on art community love friendship work life & death Alain de Botton shows us a range of fascinating ideas on a range of topics including relationships work culture love & death
- & that could be of use to all of us irrespective of whether we do or don't believe. In the " Sunday Times" top-ten bestseller " Religion for Atheists" Alain de Botton takes us one step further than Dawkins & Hitchens have ventured & into a world of ideas beyond the God debate..."A serious & optimistic set of practical ideas that could improve & alter the way we live". (Jeanette Winterson " The Times"). "A beautiful inspiring book.. .offering a glimpse of a more enlightened path". (" Sunday Telegraph"). " Packed with tantalizing goads to thought & playful prompts to action". (" Independent"). " Smart stimulating sensitive. A timely & perceptive appreciation of how much wisdom is embodied in religious traditions & how we godless moderns might learn from it". (" Financial Times"). " There isn't a page in this book that doesn't contain a striking idea or a stimulating parallel". (" Mail on Sunday"). " Packed with tantalizing goads to thought & playful prompts to action". (" Independent"). Alain de Botton was born in 1969 & is the author of non-fiction essays on themes ranging from love & travel to architecture & philosophy. His bestselling books include " How Proust Can Change Your Life" " The Art of Travel" " The Consolations of Philosophy" " The Architecture of Happiness" " Status Anxiety" " Essays in Love" "A Week at the Airport" & " The Pleasures" & " Sorrows of Work". He lives in London & founded The School of Life & Living Architecture."