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  Title

  The end of faith : religion, terror, and the future of reason

  Author

  Harris, Sam, 1967-  

  Publisher:

  W.W. Norton & Co.,

  Pub date:

  2005.

  Pages:

  348 p. ;

  ISBN:

  0393327655

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    BL2775.3 .H37 2005	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  0393327655 (pbk.)

  ISBN:

  9780393327656 (pbk.)

  Personal Author:

  Harris, Sam, 1967-

  Title:

  The end of faith : religion, terror, and the future of reason / Sam Harris.

  Edition:

  1st Norton pbk.

  Publication info:

  New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2005.

  Physical description:

  348 p. ; 21 cm.

  General Note:

  "With a new afterword"--Cover.

  Contents:

  Reason in exile -- The nature of belief -- In the shadow of God -- The problem with Islam -- West of Eden -- A science of good and evil -- Experiments in consciousness.

  Summary:

  A startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world, this historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify atrocities, asserts that in the shadow of weapons of mass destruction, we cannot expect to survive our religious differences indefinitely. Most controversially, argues that moderate lip service to religion only blinds us to the real perils of fundamentalism. Harris also draws on new evidence from neuroscience and insights from philosophy to explore spirituality as a biological, brain-based need, and invokes that need in taking a secular humanistic approach to solving the problems of this world.

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  Subject term:

  Religion--Controversial literature.

  Subject term:

  Terrorism--Religious aspects.

  Subject term:

  Psychology, Religious.

  Subject term:

  Secular humanism.

  HTTP:

  http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0417/2004007874.html

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