But according to scholars, our modern understanding of monotheism is a recent phenomenon — more recent even than the religions it describes. So, how did monotheism emerge? The answer is complicated.

Jonathan Kirsch’s new book, God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism, describes the fight between monotheism and paganism, with Roman Emperor Constantine ...

“Monotheism could be related to epilepsy, or bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia, or drug intoxication from a fungus – but this paper does not sway me to any of these options.” Markel agrees ...

Here he follows up his inquiry into the origins of Christianity with an even more ambitious project: a grand theory of the social and political effects of monotheism in every corner of the globe ...

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