Alain de Botton bestselling author of “The Art of Travel”, “Consolation by Philosophy”, “The Experiences of Love” Each of these books is a witty and deeply insightful look at the way modern people think. In Religion for Atheists, the writer turned to a problem that every thinking person sooner or later thinks about what place religion occupies in our lives. For many, he believes, religion is above all a means of comfort, a source of inspiration to which humanity owes the greatest collection of cultural monuments. So is it necessary to demand more from religion? To this question Alain de Botton gave in his book an exhaustive, simple and elegant answer. Translated by Victor Weber