This book seems a rare news. If we want to understand what is happening in the world today, how religions fit (and evolve?) In history, this book seems to me simply ESSENTIAL. It may not be an obvious first for the young, and yet it is at the height of the subject it deals with. Miss would be a shame, especially since Jean-Claude Carrière really did (as always) a great job, just praised repeatedly. To complete reading this book, I recommend viewing the film Mission (Roland Joffé), Golden Palm Cane in 1987, which is in the same line. I put 5 stars because we can not put 6. Read, therefore, and to read.