{"product_id":"dominion-the-making-of-the-western-mind-9781408706961","title":"Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe are all twenty-first century people  Richard Dawkins has said  and we subscribe to a pretty widespread consensus of what is right and wrong. Yet what are the origins of this consensus? It has not remotely been a given  across the reaches of space and time  that humans should believe it nobler to suffer than to inflict suffering  or that people are all of equal value. These are convictions which instead bear witness to the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world  a revolution in values that has proven transformative like nothing else in history: Christianity.  Dominion tells the epic story of how those in the West came to be what they are  and why they think the way they do. Ranging from Moses to Merkel  from Babylon to Beverley Hills  from the emergence of secularism to the abolition of slavery  it explores why  in a society that has become increasingly doubtful of religions claims  so many of its instincts remain irredeemably Christian. Even the increasing numbers in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears and dismiss all religions as pointless superstition remain recognisably its heirs. Christianitys enduring impact is not confined to churches. It can be seen everywhere in the West: in science  in secularism  in gay rights  even in atheism.  It is - to coin a phrase - the greatest story ever told.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45921751662645,"sku":"ByrdShop_1408706962","price":242.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781408706961.jpg?v=1787599876","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/dominion-the-making-of-the-western-mind-9781408706961","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}