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Monday March 24, 2008
Book Review • Polygamy:
Journalist takes governments to task for not acting against polygamous communities. The research and Bramham’s patient laying out of the facts goes a long way to explaining how a normal society ignores the illegal — and immoral — exploitation of children practiced by a messianic cult.
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Saturday January 5, 2008
Book Review • Cult Apologists:
When describing each phenomenon, J. Gordon Melton’s tone whipsaws between critical and credulous, often without obvious justification.
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Saturday December 22, 2007
Book Review:
In 2001, rumors started to hit the blogosphere that Antony Flew, a British philosopher born in 1923, had found God after six decades of atheism. At first Flew denied the reports. But in May 2004 he told a conference in New York that he had indeed changed his mind and become a believer.
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Saturday October 20, 2007
Book Review • Children of God / The Family:
You couldn’t beat it for tabloid fodder: Anointed prophet of a secretive evangelical mission-cum-sex cult slits the throat of an ex-nanny, and then kills himself, in protest against the cult leaders, his parents, for years of sex abuse he says he and many other children suffered. And he made a video first.
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Monday August 13, 2007
Book Review:
How did George W. Bush happen? That question has preoccupied the American left for more than six years, producing several shelves of books. Few of the books have been as erudite as Earl Shorris’ “The Politics of Heaven.”
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Tuesday May 15, 2007
Atheism • Book Review:
Ultimately, “God Is Not Great” is somewhat of a disappointment — not so much for those who disagree, who will simply be irritated, but for those of us who think that it has an important case to make and were hoping that this might be the book to carry that message to the people.
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Sunday May 13, 2007
Book Review:
Historian Ronald Hutton delights in both debunking and celebrating paganism. His new study of the Druids will probably annoy their modern followers, but Gary Lachman finds him unrepentant.
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Tuesday April 24, 2007
Book Review:
McPherson’s “willingness to engage with American culture … ultimately redefined the relationship among social activism, religion, gender, and the media in the United States.”
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Wednesday September 13, 2006
Book Review:
There are two murders in Murder in Amsterdam. The first took place on May 6, 2002, when an animal-rights advocate, for obscure reasons, gunned down Pim Fortuyn, a charismatic politician with a populist program combining law-and-order conservatism, opposition to immigration and gay liberation. About a year and a half later a young Dutch Muslim of Moroccan descent, incensed by a film critical of Islam, shot the filmmaker-provocateur Theo van Gogh dead in broad daylight. As a parting gesture, he pinned a manifesto to the twitching body with a knife. It was all, as the prime minister of the Netherlands put it, un-Dutch.
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Monday July 24, 2006
Book Review:
BRAINWASH: The Secret History of Mind Control [Order from Amazon UK | Order from Amazon USA]
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Saturday July 8, 2006
Book Review:
At least since Gilgamesh went on a quest for immortality in the ancient Babylonian epic that bears his name, road novels have often doubled as flights of spiritual fancy. In "Dharma Bums," for example, Jack Kerouac read the pilgrimages of his Beat Generation friends through the lens of "A Buddhist Bible," an anthology of Zen and other Buddhist scriptures edited by the Christian-minister-turned-Buddhist-advocate Dwight Goddard.
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Friday June 16, 2006
Book Review:
In his book about extreme forms of religious practices, former Rancho Bernardo resident J.C. Hallman did not have to look far for one of the most striking examples of a belief gone wrong.
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Thursday June 8, 2006
Book Review:
Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism
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Tuesday April 4, 2006
Book Review:
THE GOD FACTOR: Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People. By Cathleen Falsani. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Book Publishers. 263 pages. $24.00.
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Saturday April 1, 2006
Agapemone • Book Review:
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Tuesday February 28, 2006
Book Review:
Historian reflects on getting, losing religion
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Saturday February 25, 2006
Book Review:
"While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West From Within" by Bruce Bawer; Doubleday ($23.95)
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Monday January 9, 2006
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Friday November 25, 2005
Book Review:
The title of Christine Wickers "Not in Kansas Anymore" alludes, of course, to Dorothys comment to Toto upon arriving in the Land of Oz. Wickers inquiry into "how magic is transforming America" does, in fact, make her much like L. Frank Baums corn-fed Kansas farm girl "off to see the Wizard" with some extremely odd companions.
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Wednesday November 2, 2005
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Sunday December 12, 2004
Book Review:
The authors' technique of explaining fundamentalism in historical and cultural terms enables us to cope with it in the future
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Wednesday December 1, 2004
Book Review:
The Encyclopedia of Protestantism. Ed. by Hans J. Hillerbrand. New York: Routledge, 2004. 4 vols, acid free $495 (ISBN 0-415-92472- 3).
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