End of Faith Religion Terror and the Future of Reason

Name: End of Faith Religion Terror and the Future of Reason
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ISBN: 9780393327656

ISBN-10: 0393327655

ISBN-13: 9780393327656

Edition: 2005

Authors: Sam Harris

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Sam Harris offers a vivid, historical tour of our willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs--even when these beliefs inspire the worst of human atrocities. Natalie Angier wrote in the New York Times. "The End of Faith articulates the dangers and absurdities of organized religion so fiercely and so fearlessly that I felt relieved as I read it, vindicated.... Harris writes what a sizable number of us think, but few are willing to say." While warning against the encroachment of organized religion into world politics, Harris draws on insights from neuroscience, philosophy, and Eastern mysticism to deliver a call for a truly modern foundation for ethics and spirituality that is…

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List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.15" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Sam Harris received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a PhD in neuroscience from UCLA. His works include Letter to a Christian Nation, The Moral Landscape, and Free Will. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. He is the co-founder and CEO of Project Reason, a nonprofit foundation devoted to spreading scientific knowledge and secular values in society.