GodBy: Reza Aslan THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In God, Reza Aslan sheds new light on mankinds relationship with the divine and challenges our perspective on the history of faith and the birth of religion. From the origins of spiritual thought to the concept of an active, engaged, divine presence that underlies all creation, Aslan examines how the idea of god arose in human evolution, was gradually personalized, endowed with human traits and emotions,