{"product_id":"the-religion-of-the-future-by-roberto-mangabeira-unger-9781784787301","title":"The Religion of the Future","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow can we live in such a way that we die only once? How can we organise a society that gives us a better chance to be fully alive? How can we reinvent religion so that it liberates us instead of consoling us?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese questions stand at the centre of \u003cb\u003eRoberto Mangabeira Unger\u003c\/b\u003e's \u003ci\u003eThe Religion of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e. Both a book about religion and a religious work in its own right, it proposes the content of a religion that can survive faith in a transcendent God and in life after death. According to this religion—the religion of the future—human beings can be more human by becoming more godlike, not just later, in another life or another time, but right now, on Earth and in their own lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnger begins by facing the irreparable flaws in the human condition: our mortality, groundlessness, and insatiability. He goes on to discuss the conflicting approaches to existence that have dominated the last 2,500 years of the history of religion. Turning next to the religious revolution that we now require, he explores the political ideal of this revolution, an idea of deep freedom. And he develops its moral vision, focused on a refusal to squander life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Religion of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e advances Unger's philosophical programme: a philosophy for which history is open, the new can happen, and belittlement need not be our fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47600192094444,"sku":"9781784787301","price":84.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781784787301-the-religion-of-the-future.jpg?v=1777986537","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-religion-of-the-future-by-roberto-mangabeira-unger-9781784787301","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}