I recommend the following review of ‘A Secular Age’
by Charles Taylor in the winter issue of Dissent. Kind of a dumb title, but the reviewer provides a thoughtful consideration of the dynamics, psychology and motivation of belief and non-belief.
Click to read review.
Also compare to William James’ Varieties of Religious Experience.
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Link to Thoughtful Article in Dissent Mag.
Recommended Reading: Death from the Skies
What could be more perfect October reading than a book about all of the ways that the universe could destroy life as we know it?
Out this week is the much anticipated second book by Dr. Phil Plait (the Bad Astronomer) Death from the Skies: These Are the Ways the World Will End. I’ve added it [...]