Bad Religion
Subtitle: How We Became a Nation of Heretics
By: by Ross Douthat
Edition: 1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781439178300
Subjects: Religious life and customs; Doctrinal Theology; Catholic Church; Christianity
Description: AS THE YOUNGEST-EVER OP-ED COLUMNIST FOR The New York Times, Ross Douthat has emerged as one of the most provocative and influential voices of his generation. In Bad Religion he offers a masterful and forceful account of how American Christianity has lost its way—and why it threatens to take American society with it. 

In a world populated by “pray and grow rich” gospels and Christian cults of self-esteem, Ross Douthat argues that America’s problem isn’t too much religion; nor is it intolerant secularism. Rather, it’s bad religion. Conservative and liberal, political and pop cultural, traditionally religious and fashionably “spiritual”—Christianity’s place in American life has increasingly been taken over, not by atheism, but by heresy: debased versions of Christian faith that stroke our egos, indulge our follies, and encourage our worst impulses. 

In a brilliant and provocative story that moves from the 1950s to the age of Obama, Douthat explores how bad religion has crippled the country’s ability to confront our most pressing challenges and accelerated American decline.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : a nation of heretics; title: The lost world; title: The locust years; title: Accommodation; title: Resistance; title: Lost in the Gospels; title: Pray and grow rich; title: The God within; title: The city on the hill.