Books like From the stone age to Christianity

A sweeping, erudite journey through the ancient Near East that traces the dawn of the monotheistic mind. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with From the stone age to Christianity.

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The evolution of God
Wright, Robert
A sweeping, intellectually rigorous journey through human history that seeks the hidden evolutionary logic behind our search for the divine.
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A history of God
Karen Armstrong · 1993
A sweeping, intellectually rigorous journey through four millennia of human attempts to understand and define the divine.
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The Case for God
Karen Armstrong · 2009
A sweeping, contemplative journey through the history of human attempts to understand the divine.
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Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion
Sigmund Freud
A provocative, psychoanalytic excavation of religious history that reimagines the foundations of Western belief.
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When God Was a Woman
Merlin Stone
A paradigm-shifting archaeological journey that unearths the suppressed history of the divine feminine and the origins of patriarchal myth.
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Archaeology and Humanity's Story
Deborah Olszewski
A grounded and illuminating exploration of deep time that pieces together the earliest chapters of the human experience.
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The Rise of Christianity
Rodney Stark · 1996
A fast-paced, myth-busting sociological investigation into how a tiny messianic movement transformed into a dominant cultural force.
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The Saturn myth
David N. Talbott
A provocative plunge into ancient symbolism that reimagines the primordial sky and the origins of human civilization.
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The Source
James A. Michener · 1900
A monumental, time-traveling excavation of human faith and civilization layered within a single patch of ancient earth.
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The Closing of the Western Mind
Charles Freeman · 2002
A sweeping intellectual history that mourns the loss of classical inquiry to the rigid dogmas of early religious authority.
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The Classical World
Robin Lane Fox
A sweeping, thematic journey through the foundational epochs of Greece and Rome, anchored by the enduring ideals of freedom, justice, and luxury.
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People of the earth
Brian M. Fagan
A sweeping, accessible journey through millions of years of human history that makes the distant past feel remarkably close.
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