The End of Faith by Sam Harris
This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify harmful behavior and sometimes heinous crimes. He asserts that in the shadow of weapons of mass destruction, we can no longer tolerate views that pit one true god against another. Most controversially, he argues that we cannot afford moderate lip service to religion--an accommodation that only blinds us to the real perils of fundamentalism. While warning against the encroachment of organized religion into world politics, Harris also draws on new evidence from neuroscience and insights from philosophy to explore spirituality as a biological, brain-based need. He calls on us to invoke that need in taking a secular humanistic approach to solving the problems of this world.
Sam Harris is a graduate in philosophy from Stanford University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393035155 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393035158 |
| Title | The End of Faith |
| Author | Sam Harris |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2004-09-03 |
| Number of pages | 338 |
| Prizes | Winner of Literary Award (First Nonfiction) 2005, Winner of Independent Publisher Book Awards (Religion) 2005 |
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