The End of Faith
Subtitle: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company; W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: August 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780393035155
First sentence: THE young man boards the bus as it leaves the terminal.
Description: "In The End of Faith, Sam Harris delivers an analysis of the clash between reason and religion in the modern world. He offers a historical tour of our willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs - even when these beliefs inspire the worst of human atrocities. Harris argues that in the presence of weapons of mass destruction we cannot expect to survive our religious differences indefinitely. Most controversially, he argues that "moderation" in religion poses considerable dangers of its own, as the accomodation we have made to religious faith in our society now blinds us to the role that faith plays in perpetuating human conflict." "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."--BOOK JACKET.