num_pages: 348
description: In The End of Faith, Sam Harris delivers a startling analysis of the clash between reason and religion in the modern world. He offers a vivid, historical tour of our willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs—even when these beliefs inspire the worst human atrocities. 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 both secular and humanistic.Winner of the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction.
language: English
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