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by A.C. Grayling
Published May 2017
Read ReviewsOut of a 'fractured and fractious time,' the author asserts persuasively, the medieval mind evolved into the modern. Another thought-provoking winner from Grayling." - Kirkus
by Lesley Hazleton
Published Apr 2017
Read ReviewsA widely admired writer on religion celebrates agnosticism as the most vibrant, engaging - and ultimately the most honest - stance toward the mysteries of existence.
by Leila Aboulela
Published Jan 2017
Read ReviewsA versatile prose stylist... [Aboulela's] lyrical style and incisive portrayal of Muslims living in the West received praise from the Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee... [she is] a voice for multiculturalism." - New York Times
by Michel Houellebecq
Published Oct 2016
Read ReviewsMichel Houellebecq's new book may be satirical and melancholic, but it is also hilarious, a comic masterpiece by one of France's great novelists.
36 Arguments for the Existence of God
by Rebecca Goldstein
Published Feb 2011
Read ReviewsA hilarious, heartbreaking, and intellectually captivating novel about the rapture and torments of religious experience in all its variety.
by Christopher Hitchens
Published Apr 2009
Read ReviewsHitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope's awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix.
by William Lobdell
Published Mar 2009
Read ReviewsWilliam Lobdell's journey of faithand doubtmay be the most compelling spiritual memoir of our time. It is a book about life's deepest questions that speaks to everyone: Lobdell understands the longings and satisfactions of the faithful, as well as the unrelenting power of doubt.
by Diana Eck
Published May 2002
Read ReviewsA portrait of the diversity of religion in modern America, complete with engaging characters, fascinating stories, the tragedy of misunderstanding and hatred, and the hope of new friendships, offering a road map to guide us all in the richly diverse America of the twenty-first century.
by Andrew Newberg, M.D., Eugene d'Aquili
Published Mar 2002
Read ReviewsNewberg and D'Aquili show that the religious impulse is rooted in the biology of the brain--but is religion merely a product of biology or has the human brain been mysteriously endowed with the unique capacity to reach and know God?
by Karen Armstrong
Published Jan 2001
Read ReviewsBrilliantly and sympathetically shows us how and why fundamentalist groups came into existence and what they yearn to accomplish.
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