Book interviews tagged Religion
GIANTS: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
- ISBN: 978 0 446 58009 0
- featured in: Douglass’s and Lincoln’s intertwined story of change and self-making is the nation’s storyDecember 5, 2008
Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz
- ISBN: 978 1 84467 291 2
- featured in: Popular music is popular because it is influenced by neo-African religious practices December 5, 2008
Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture (revised and updated edition)
- ISBN: 978 0 8166 5494 9
- featured in: The line between culture and politics is exceptionally fluid—if it exists at allJanuary 20, 2009
The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil
- ISBN: 978 0 374 22998 6
- featured in: A glimpse into the intellectual life of early modern EuropeJanuary 30, 2009
Adam’s Ancestors: Race, Religion and the Politics of Human Origins
- ISBN: 978 0 8018 8813 7
- featured in: On genesis myths, genetics myths, and the persistent dialogue between science and religion over human beginnings and identityFebruary 6, 2009
Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed
- ISBN: 978 0 226493121
- featured in: Much is lost in the claim that the Buddha anticipated EinsteinMarch 13, 2009
What is a Number? Mathematical Concepts and Their Origins
- ISBN: 978 0 801890185
- featured in: On the central role mathematical notions have played in the history of ideasMarch 24, 2009
Two Faiths, One Banner: When Muslims Marched with Christians across Europe’s Battlegrounds
- ISBN: 978 0 674 03397 9
- featured in: The idea of a Christian Europe is simply a case of historical amnesiaApril 28, 2009
Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-Religions
- ISBN: 978 1861894304
- featured in: The questions answered by the pseudo-historians are questions that a curious public frequently asksJuly 8, 2009
Mystery of the Night Café: Hidden Key to the Spirituality of Vincent Van Gogh
- ISBN: 978 1438426112 hb
- featured in: On the spiritual journey of the artist Vincent Van GoghAugust 26, 2009
Muhammad is Not the Father of any of Your Men: The Making of the Last Prophet
- ISBN: 978 0 8122 4178 5
- featured in: Muhammad’s sonlessness was a function of theological imperativesSeptember 4, 2009
Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women
- ISBN: 978 0 691 13818 3
- featured in: Reflection on the necessity to depoliticize the veilOctober 5, 2009
Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance
- ISBN: 978 0262195577
- featured in: Why, and how, Islamic science was born and grew and taken up in EuropeOctober 23, 2009
Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living
- ISBN: 978 0231147804
- featured in: Abstract ideas, concrete experiences, and life dilemmas in the form of a philosophical memoirOctober 30, 2009
To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise
- ISBN: 978 0674033221
- featured in: Wal-Mart as a Christian pro-capitalist social movementNovember 4, 2009
Theology of Money
- ISBN: 978-0822344506 pb
- featured in: Economic life is constrained by the perpetual need for acquiring moneyNovember 30, 2009
Household Gods: The British and their Possessions
- ISBN: 978 0300112139
- featured in: Modern consumer society has its roots in early nineteenth-century religious fervorDecember 9, 2009
Radical, Religious, and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism
- ISBN: 978 0262026406
- featured in: How governments should approach terrorism
December 14, 2009
The Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey
- ISBN: 978 0807833193
- featured in: How recovery ideas migrated into the popular imaginationJanuary 27, 2010
Macaulay: The Tragedy of Power
- ISBN: 978 0674036246
- featured in: Lord Macaulay was an emotionally myopic genius imbued with the sensibility of powerJanuary 29, 2010
Pistols! Treason! Murder! The Rise and Fall of a Master Spy
- ISBN: 978 080189370 4
- featured in: Why can’t I just write a normal history book?February 3, 2010
Angel of Vengeance: The Girl Who Shot the Governor of St. Petersburg and Sparked the Age of Assassination
- ISBN: 978 0312364014
- featured in: The atheist proponents of revolution dreamt of martyrdom for the causeMarch 1, 2010
Lost to the Collective: Suicide and the Promise of Soviet Socialism, 1921-1929
- ISBN: 978 0801447662
- featured in: Soviet Suicide, the Soviet Individual, Soviet SocietyMarch 12, 2010
Calvin
- ISBN: 978 0300120769
- featured in: Calvin was always in the process of becoming CalvinApril 21, 2010
The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy
- ISBN: 978 0 674 03634 5
- featured in: The real tragedy of the Thirty Years War is that it could have been avoidedApril 23, 2010
Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible
- ISBN: 978 0691128818
- featured in: For the importance of style in the understanding and the enjoyment of literatureMay 31, 2010
