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Why Religion?
By Elaine Pagels
An historian uses her own experiences to explore the solace, contradictions, and mystery of faith.
To Change the Church
By Ross Douthat
The problem with liberal theology and the pontiff who trumpets it.
Antisemitism: Here and Now
By Deborah E. Lipstadt
How a pernicious evil persists even today.
The Jewish American Paradox: Embracing Choice in a Changing World
By Robert Mnookin
Who gets to decide what it means to be a Jew?
Why Religion? A Personal Story
By Elaine Pagels
An historian uses her own experiences to explore the solace, contradictions, and mystery of faith.
The Burning Time
By Virginia Rounding
An authoritative chronicle of the gruesome era when religious dissenters met their end at the stake.
Crucible of Faith
By Philip Jenkins
A remarkably complex exegesis on the Bible’s most challenging texts.
The Chosen Wars: How Judaism Became an American Religion
By Steven R. Weisman
Recounting the ways the ancient faith redefined itself in the 18th- and 19th-century United States.
