Intestinal Gas and the Search for God

Books about God tend to fall into two categories: objective inquiries into the nature of belief and personal tales of spiritual awakening. One type explores history, creation myths and religious ritual. In the other, the author typically undergoes a crisis — a terminal illness, the death of a loved one, an onset of existential dread — that causes him to confront his life’s emptiness, coming to realize that there is something out there greater than himself.