num_pages: 336
description: A startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world, this historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify atrocities, asserts that in the shadow of weapons of mass destruction, we cannot expect to survive our religious differences indefinitely. Most controversially, argues that moderate lip service to religion only blinds us to the real perils of fundamentalism. Harris also draws on new evidence from neuroscience and insights from philosophy to explore spirituality as a biological, brain-based need, and invokes that need in taking a secular humanistic approach to solving the problems of this world.
title: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
titlecomplete: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
characters: Fareed Zakaria, Christopher Hitchens, Noam Chomsky, Condoleezza Rice
genres: Politics, Religion, Philosophy, Theology, Science, Atheism, Psychology, Nonfiction, History, Spirituality
ratings_count: 41360
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers
publisher: W. W. Norton