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An Agnostic Biography of the Prophet Muhammad

By Lesley Hazleton

…or the understated elegance of this classic “knot” tile design. Is there a book out there you wish you’d written? On Muhammad? No, and that’s exactly why I wrote The First Muslim. The book I wish someone else had written didn’t exist—one that brought psychological and political context to the historical and religious record, and one I actually wanted to read instead of feeling that I should. What’s your next book? I’m thinking it’s time to explore…

What Does Heidegger’s Anti-Semitism Mean for Jewish Philosophy?

By Aubrey L. Glazer

…r than America? There are some important American thinkers engaged in this book, although you are correct that the core of the book deals with European thinkers, who wrote in German and French. On the most elemental level, my philosophical training was primarily in what used to be called continental philosophy, and especially in hermeneutics and phenomenology. I was also interested in American thought, especially the pragmatism of James, Peirce an…

Devil’s Bookmark: How Not to Defend God

By Bernard Schweizer

…ut for religious skeptics, god-Haters (misotheists), and atheists, Copan’s book can do very little to dispel their doubts about God’s foresight, wisdom, goodness, and even existence. The book takes too many theistic premises for granted to be intelligible to secular humanists. Curiously, New Atheists seem to be perfectly intelligible to theists, but it doesn’t necessarily work the other way around. While disbelief can work its way to belief, belie…

Racing Toward Armageddon: The Three Great Religions and the Plot to End the World: An Excerpt

By Michael J. Baigent

…t he was leading us to the Promised Land. The above is an excerpt from the book Racing Toward Armageddon: The Three Great Religions and the Plot to End the World by Michael Baigent. The above excerpt is a digitally scanned reproduction of text from print. Although this excerpt has been proofread, occasional errors may appear due to the scanning process. Please refer to the finished book for accuracy. Copyright © 2009 Michael Baigent, author of Rac…

Religion is Not about Belief: Karen Armstrong’s The Case for God

By Brian McGrath Davis

…when unencumbered with the need to define, defend, and divide. Armstrong’s book is timely; however, any book on the subject of reining in haughty theological assertions is always timely. It is true that she has been selective with her historical survey, giving most of her attention to the Christian tradition, but the point of the book is not to give an exhaustive portrait of monotheistic theologies. Rather, the point is to remind the reader that r…

A New Book Traces the Influence of Racism and Imperialism on White Christian Feminism

By Caroline Matas

…ntury concepts of feminism and secularism, argues Gale L. Kenny in her new book, Christian Imperial Feminism: White Protestant Women and the Consecration of Empire. Kenny offers a history of White liberal Protestant women’s engagement with multiculturalism and feminism from the 1910s through 1940s, arguing that imperial logics and racial hierarchy guided their embrace of Christian feminism even as they rejected certain forms of American imperialis…

A Dismayed Democrat Reads the Bible

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…se comes at the end of the familiar New Testament, is almost in the middle—number 14 of 27 documents. When the book of Revelation comes at the end of the New Testament, it makes the whole of the New Testament sound as if we’re still looking forward to the second coming of Jesus and what is popularly called ‘the end of the world.’ When the book of Revelation appears more or less in the middle, we see it, hear it and understand it as a document prod…

Innocent Until Proven Muslim — A Q&A with Dr. Maha Hilal

By Habiba Farh

…ountry this is: that it inflicts violence for good reasons.” You wrote the book twenty years into the War on Terror. What has changed—socially, politically, economically, narratively—since you wrote the book? Most people seem to think that the War on Terror is over—Biden said this during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, that the war is over.[7] They don’t understand that the War on Terror is much bigger than a visible, active [military] prese…

Angels & Demons: America’s Preeminent Pop Theologian Takes on Religion and Science

By Nathan Schneider

…creationist movement led by Harun Yahya was forcibly removed from the microphone. With his eye on the secularism that has engulfed Europe, Pope Benedict hopes that the roads of science can lead back to Rome. The Vatican might agree with Dan Brown in this respect more than it would like to admit. By allying with Templeton, the Church has begun (or, rather, continued) to embrace what Brown’s zealous priest-villain fears most of all: “spiritually-bas…

The Promise of Immortality in a Tech-Enhanced Heaven

By Lisa Webster

…be confused by the word “disinformation.” The publisher is Disinformation Books, which publishes various kinds of edgy content, and their use of the term is tongue-in-cheek. We assure you that our book includes no disinformation. LW: Transcendence has been the province of religion, historically — the whole promising-of-immortality thing. What about the idea that transhumanism, the hope for tech-assisted transcendence of the human, is a whole lot…