Recently Received: God Against Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism, by Jonathan Kirsch.

Today, the dominant religions in the world are monotheistic: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. At one time, though, the dominant religions in the world were polytheistic and only Hinduism remains to carry on any sort of explicitly polytheistic tradition. How did this dramatic shift occur and what has it meant for western culture?

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