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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Harris, Sam
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Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify harmful behavior and sometimes heinous crimes.


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In Defense of Faith: The Judeo-Christian Idea and the Struggle for Humanity
Brog, David
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As religious faith comes under assault from atheism, "In Defense of Faith" examines the strong historical record of the Judeo-Christian idea and asks where we would be without it.


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Letter to a Christian Nation
Harris, Sam
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From the new afterword by the author:

Humanity has had a long fascination with blood sacrifice. In fact, it has been by no means uncommon for a child to be born into this world only to be patiently and lovingly reared by religious maniacs, who... [More...]


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Grandmothers Counsel the World: Women Elders Offer Their Vision for Our Planet
Schaefer, Carol
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We are thirteen indigenous grandmothers. . . . We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth, the atrocities of war, the global scourge of poverty, the prevailing culture of materialism, the epidemics that threaten the... [More...]


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American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us
Putnam, Robert D.
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Based on two new studies, "American Grace "examines the impact of religion on American life and how that impact has changed in the last half-century.


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The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion
Berger, Peter L.
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This important contribution to the sociology of religion provides an analysis that clarifies the often ironic interaction between religion and society.  Berger is noted for his concise and lucid style.


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Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity Is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power
Aikman, David
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This book details the great unreported story of the Chinese giant and its enormously rapid conversion to Christianity and what this change means to the global balance of power.


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When Religion Becomes Evil: Five Warning Signs
Kimball, Charles
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Religion and Mideast politics expert Kimball offers a timely examination of the nature and signs of religious evil, while outlining how to correct various aberrations.


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The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure
Turner, Victor Witter
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The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ritual behavior and symbolism may be used as a key to understanding social structure and processes. The American Anthropologist called Turner's book... [More...]


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The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism and Other Writings
Weber, Max
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In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment of one's worldly duties. Based on the... [More...]


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