![]() As an undergraduate student, Dean Soni spent a semester living in a Buddhist monastery in Bodh Gaya, India through Antioch University’s Buddhist Studies Program. through the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town, where his doctoral research focused on religion and popular culture. degree from University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, where he also completed the Critical Race Studies Program and served as an editor for the Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law. degree through the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. degree from Harvard Divinity School and his M.A. degree in Religion from Tufts University, where he also earned an Asian Studies minor and completed the Program in Peace and Justice Studies. Varun Soni, USC Dean of Religious Lifeĭean Soni received his B.A. Whether you believe in one God, many gods, or no god at all, God: A Human History will transform the way you think about the divine and its role in our everyday lives. More than just a history of our understanding of God, this book is an attempt to get to the root of this humanizing impulse in order to develop a more universal spirituality, unencumbered by the urge to impose human characteristics upon the divine. All these qualities inform our religions, cultures, and governments. We bestow upon God not just all that is good in human nature-our compassion, our thirst for justice-but all that is bad in it: our greed, our bigotry, our penchant for violence. As Aslan writes, “Whether we are aware of it or not, and regardless if we are believers or not, what the vast majority of us think about when we think about God is a divine version of ourselves.”īut this projection is not without consequences. According to Aslan, this innate desire to humanize God is hardwired in our brains, making it a central feature of nearly every religious tradition. In layered prose and with thoughtful, accessible scholarship, Aslan narrates the history of religion as one long and remarkably cohesive attempt to understand the divine by giving it human traits and emotions. In his new book, Aslan takes on a subject even more immense: God, writ large. In Zealot, Reza Aslan replaced the well-worn portrayal of Jesus of Nazareth with a startling new image of the man in all his contradictions. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer explores humanity’s quest to make sense of the divine, and sounds a call to embrace a deeper, more expansive understanding of God. His newest book, God: A Human History, was released in November, 2017. He served as an Executive Producer for ABC’s Of Kings and Prophets, a Consulting Producer for HBO’s The Leftovers, as well as host and executive producer for both Rough Draft with Reza Aslan (premiered on OvationTV) and CNN’s original series, Believer. His writing has been published in The New York Times, Slate, The Daily Beast, The Christian Science Monitor and The Washington Post, and he makes frequent appearances on TV and radio shows as a religions and political analyst. ![]() Aslan teaches creative writing at the University of California, Riverside. ![]() James Joyce Award winner Reza Aslan is an internationally renowned religions scholar and writer whose books include the #1 New York Times Bestseller, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, and the International Bestseller, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam. Mitchell Business of Cinematic Arts Program John Wells Division of Writing for Screen & Television.Hench Division of Animation + Digital Arts Editing and mixing by Will Stanton, with additional editing by Blake V.įollow Reza us at transcripts and full credits, head to ![]() Executive Producers for Topic, Ryan Chanatry, Anna Holmes, and Gena Konstantinakos. Go to /topic to get your free 7-day trial.įollow Ramy Youssef Sahar Jahani El Ten Eleven Draft is a Topic Original Series.Įxecutive Produced by Reza Aslan, David Andreone, Alfredo de Villa, and Safa Samieyazde’-Yazd. Watch Rough Draft and other Topic shows on the Apple TV app. With special musical guest El Ten Eleven! Later, they’re joined by Ramy staff writer Sahar Jahani to discuss diverse perspectives within the Muslim community. ![]() Reza and Ramy Youssef, the Golden-Globe-winning actor/creator of Hulu’s Ramy, chat about being the representative for all muslims on TV and swap immigrant mother stories. ![]()
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