RD10Q: What is Black Religion?
William D. Hart’s new book charts the black spiritual imagination through the journeys of Malcolm X, Julius Lester, and Jan Willis.
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RDBook: Feminist Theologian Defies the Vatican Agenda
It has been written of her that “in a truly just world, she would be Pope.” Rosemary Radford Ruether calls for an inclusive, even prophetic church in her latest book, Catholic Does Not Equal The Vatican.
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RDBook: Technology and Tradition: Carlson’s Indiscrete Image
A philosopher connects the dots between mysticism and modernity, arguing that technology—human invention—is not in opposition to an idealized state of nature, but is part of an ever-evolving created world.
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RD10Q: Living Without God
Intellectual and philosophical encouragement for America’s largest and most invisible minority: atheists, agnostics, secularists, and the undecided.
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Revelations from Family of Secrets (an addendum)
Bush connections to JFK, the Bay of Pigs, and the Saudi royal family are investigated by renowned journalist Russ Baker in his new book, hot off the press.
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RDBook: A City Too Busy To Hate
A new guidebook to the city of Atlanta, Sacred Places, focuses on civil rights sites, from churches to restaurants, and shows how the history of the struggle for freedom still permeates the urban landscape.
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RDBook: Is Zionism Anti-Semitic?: Zizek’s Violence
Philosopher Slavoj Zizek thinks that Judaism and Zionism are in tension with each other, but this seeming paradox is just the tip of the iceberg, or Greenberg, or Goldberg…
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RDBook: Huckabee ♥’s Nobody
Republican presidential hopeful, and dimpled everyman, Mike Huckabee’s new book is an attempt to settle scores from a contentious campaign. Why would a man with his eye on higher office so publicly slap Mitt Romney, the religious right, and the media?
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RDBook: Christian Culture Clash
Why are conservative churches thriving in the “spiritual wasteland” of the Pacific Northwest, while liberal churches struggle? Author James Wellman explains what’s going on in the region, and how this plays out across the United States.
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RDBook: Bernard Avishai’s The Hebrew Republic
Political economist Bernard Avishai thinks that Israel’s best hope for peace and a bright future is to embrace European-style secular democracy, integrating its Arab citizens into a business-driven globalized economy.
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