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Stranded on the Island of Reason
Eric Ormsby reviews “Ibn Tufayl: Living the Life of Reason”.
Religion
"You always admire what you really don't understand."
— Blaise Pascal
Intersecting Catastrophes
Being a woman in Pakistan, from Partition until today.
How Should a Farm Be?
Farmer Joel Salatin brings us the word.
The Trouble with Excellence
Fundamentalism is the result of secularization, says Olivier Roy.
What’s so Bad About Original Sin?
Conversion and Its Discontents
Susan Jacoby, like many atheists, can’t stop thinking about religion.
The Bones of What You Believe
Tom Bissell transforms Jesus's Apostles from figures of myth to tangible human beings, in search of a scholarly perspective on the origins of Christianity.
Islam’s Forgotten Booklovers
Nile Green on the literary, critical, avant-garde, and unorthodox voices that have always been part of Muslim societies.
Polling the Soul
How has polling changed not only how we think about religion but how religious people themselves conceive of who they are and what they do?
The Triumph of Atheism
"Fighting God" is not a polemic crafted to turn the faithful into nonbelievers, but a secular activist's manual.
Evangelicals Are Losing the Battle for the Bible. And They’re Just Fine with That.
Evangelical Christianity in America is in the midst of a wholesale generational, cultural, and doctrinal transformation.
Lonely Modernist Muslims
Asma Afsaruddin's new book, "Contemporary Issues in Islam," is up to the task of presenting the liberal Muslim argument.
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