Introduction --

Birth and growth of Gods: Primordial faith -- Shaman -- Religion in the age of chiefdoms -- Gods of the ancient states -- Emergence of Abrahamic monotheism: Polytheism, the religion of ancient Israel -- From polytheism to monolatry -- From monolatry to monotheism -- Philo story -- Logos: the divine algorithm -- Invention of Christianity: What did Jesus do? -- Apostle of love -- Survival of the fittest Christianity -- How Jesus became savior -- Triumph of Islam: Koran -- Mecca -- Medina -- Jihad -- Muhammad -- God goes global (or doesn't): Moral imagination -- Well, aren't we special? -- Afterword: By the way, what is god? -- Appendix: How human nature gave birth to religion