At Books & Culture, Timothy Larsen reviews two recent books on the metaphysics of mathematics, Daniel J. Cohen's Equations from…
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The Myth of Religious Violence
William Cavanaugh's The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict is now out from Oxford…
On “the secret history of how mysticism shaped our nation”
Mitch Horowitz, editor-in-chief of Tarcher/Penguin, has a new forthcoming book called Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped…
Can Dave Eggers’s Zeitoun rescue America?
Haroon Moghul, over at Religion Dispatches, gives flying colors to Dave Eggers's new novel about a Muslim man who sets…
Why animal suffering matters
Andrew Linzey, director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, has a new book called Why Animal Suffering Matters: Philosophy,…
In praise of doubt
In the Wall Street Journal, Thomas Meaney reviews In Praise of Doubt, a new book by sociologist Peter Berger and…
Field notes from elsewhere
Mark C. Taylor, chair of the Religion department at Columbia University, discusses his new book, Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections…
Souls in transition
The Wall Street Journal's Naomi Schaeffer Riley reviews Souls in Transition, a new book by Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith,…
Good without God
Greg Epstein, the Humanist chaplain at Harvard University and a blogger at Tikkun Daily, discusses his new book, Good Without…
The perjury of positive thinking
In the New York Times, Janet Maslin reviews Barbara Ehrenreich's new book on America's habit of self-defeating optimism.