Subtitled, )What Religion Really Means(. A thoughtful and cultured response to Richard Dawkins, from the former nun and author of )A History Of God(. Traces the history of faith from the Palaeolithic Age to the present, and shows that the meaning of words such as 'belief', 'faith' and 'mystery' has been entirely altered. 'Forget Richard Dawkins - just read it with an open mind' Jeanette Winterson Tracing the history of faith from the Palaeolithic Age to the present, the author shows that meaning of words such as 'belief', 'faith', and 'mystery' has been entirely altered, so that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God - and, indeed, reason itself - in a way that our ancestors would have found astonishing.