Dark Persuasion by Joel Dimsdale
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A new book looks at the modern history of mass delusions.
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How Attention Works by Stefan Van Der Stigchel
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This study covers an enormous amount of research in only a little more than 100 pages.
Read MoreA Supernatural War by Owen Davies
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The author charts subtle changes about the ways humans charge their world with supernatural relevances.
Read MoreWhy We Need Religion by Stephen T. Asma
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A Darwinian view of whether religion is meaningful and beneficial to society.
Read MoreSupernatural: Death, Meaning, and the Power of the Invisible World by Clay Routledge
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Is a belief in the supernatural because of an evolutionarily-ingrained need to create meaning?
Read MoreEnlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
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An argument for a return to reason and science so humanity can continue to flourish.
Read MorePhone by Will Self
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A book that is, in addition to all its stylistic pyrotechnics, a magnificent portrait of fragility.
Read MoreThe Divine Mind by Michael Gellert
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Jungian analyst Michael Gellert, in his new book The Divine Mind: Exploring the Psychological History of God's Inner Journey, sifts through the Old Testament, the Talmud, the New Testament, the Koran, and the Hadith in order to trace the mental and moral growth of the central character, the God of the three Abrahamic religions. The goal of The Divine Mind is to make some sense out of the figure Richard Dawkins refers to as “the most unpleasant character in all fiction”; in these pages, Gellert is asking the same question Scriptural scholars have asked all the way back to Saint Augustine and that believers have been asking in one phrasing or another since Adam and Eve were bustled out of the Garden of Eden: “What is it with this Guy?”
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