Complex sentence: Cottone used the example of religion to make his point--different communities may have different conceptions of a god, even though historically they are speaking of the same godly origin (e.g., Islam, Christianity, Judaism).
Split into simpler sentences: Cottone used the example of religion to make his point. John Hunt Publishing Different communities may have different conceptions of a god, for example, even though historically they are speaking of the same godly origin (e.g., Islam, Christianity, Judaism).