Books
A Prophet for Then and Now
Czelaw Milosz’s Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition. By Will Joyner
The Crucible of Indian Nationhood
Martha C. Nussbaum’s The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India’s Future. By Tulasi Srinivas
Music on Your Mind
Oliver Sacks’s Musicophilia. By James Clyde Sellman
The Whole Home Is Lifted
James Agee’s and Walker Evans’sLet Us Now Praise Famous Men. By Kimberley Patton
A Double-Edged Dilemma
Divergent perceptions of the relations of religion, justice, and peace have stimulated a vast and still expanding literature, reflecting diverse and sometimes contentious perspectives. By David Little
The Clueless Factor
Stephen Prothero’s Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know and Doesn’t. By Sharon Goldman
Liberal Ambivalence Is Necessary
Christopher Hitchens’s God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. By Todd Shy
Family’s Changing Terrain
Three recent books each suggest something of the significance of the family for religion, politics, and society as a whole. By M. Christian Green
Truth-Seeking or Truth-Finding?
John Polkinghorne’s Quantum Physics and Theology. By Kirk Wegter-McNelly
The Serpent’s Hiss
Jeffrey Kripal’s Serpent’s Gift. By Francis X. Clooney, SJ
