RELIGION FOR ATHEISTS

Alain de Botton is the author of Essays in Love The Romantic Movement Kiss and Tell How Proust Can Change Your Life The Consolations of Philosophy The Art of Travel Status Anxiety The Architecture of Happiness The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work A Week at the Airport Religion for Atheists The News: A Users Manual and latest novel The Course of Love among many others. Alain is a bestselling author in 30 countries. He lives in London where he runs The School of Life and Living Architecture.Alain de Bottons Religion for Atheists looks at the God debate with fresh eyesAll of us whether religious agnostic or atheist are searching for meaning. And in this wise and lifeaffirming book nonbeliever Alain de Botton both rejects the supernatural claims of the major religions and points out just how many good ideas they sometimes have about how we should live.And he suggests that nonbelievers can learn and steal from them.Picking and choosing from the thousands of years of advice assembled by the worlds great religions Alain de Botton presents a range of fascinating ideas and practical insights on art community love friendship work life and death. He shows how they can be of use to us all irrespective of whether we do or dont believe.In the Sunday Times topten bestseller Religion for Atheists Alain de Botton takes us one step further than Dawkins and Hitchens have ventured and into a world of ideas beyond the God debate...A serious and optimistic set of practical ideas that could improve and alter the way we live Jeanette Winterson The TimesA beautiful inspiring book . . . offering a glimpse of a more enlightened path Sunday TelegraphPacked with tantalizing goads to thought and playful prompts to action IndependentSmart stimulating sensitive. A timely and perceptive appreciation of how much wisdom is embodied in religious traditions and how we godless moderns might learn from it Financial TimesThere isnt a page in this book that doesnt contain a striking idea or a stimulating parallel Mail on SundayPacked with tantalizing goads to thought and playful prompts to action Independent