Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion Jens O. Parsson In this clear and informative

In this clear and informative book

in your local church

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from a Jewish woman raising Black children in the American South—based on her acclaimed Paris Review column “Happily” “One of the most inventive

Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion Jens O. Parsson In this clear and informativeReligion is universal human culture. No phenomenon is more widely shared or more intensely studied, yet there is no agreement on what religion is. Now, in Faces in the Clouds, anthropologist Stewart Guthrie provides a provocative definition of religion in a bold and persuasive new theory. Guthrie says religion can best be understood as systematic anthropomorphism that is, the attribution of human characteristics to nonhuman things and events. Many