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The book that has sparked a vigorous national debate about the state of American religion, praised by Timothy Keller as provocative and compelling, while The New York Times says Douthat attacks nonsense on both the cultural right and leftresponsible and fair, and the Washington Times raves a superb documentation of Americas crisis of faith, now in paperback.
Ross Douthat has emerged as one of the most provocative and influential voices of his generation. In Bad Religion he offers a masterful and hard-hitting account of how American Christianity has gone off the railsand why it threatens to take American society with it. Americas problem isnt too much religion, as a growing chorus of atheists have argued; nor is it an intolerant secularism, as many on the Christian right believe. Rather, Douthat argues, its bad religion: the protracted breakdown of traditional faith and the rise of a variety of pseudo-Christianities that stroke our egos, indulge our follies, and encourage our worst impulses.
Ranging from Glenn Beck to Barack Obama, Eat Pray Love to Joel Osteen, and Oprah Winfrey to The Da Vinci Code, Douthat explores how the prosperity gospels mantra of pray and grow rich, a cult of self-esteem that reduces God to a life coach, and the warring political religions of left and right have crippled the countrys ability to confront our most pressing challenges and accelerated American decline.
Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics by Ross Douthat Douthat offers a masterful and hard-hitting account of how American Christianity has gone off the railsand why it threatens to take American society with it. Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics: Ross Douthat ... "Not only is Ross Douthats account of orthodox Christianitys decline provocative, but his critique of todays ascendant heresies is compelling. This volume is ... Book Review Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics ... I have been intending to write a long review of Ross Douthats new book, Bad Religion: How We Became A Nation of Heretics, for about seven weeks now, but due to ... Ross Douthat, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics ... Most insightful and, from my own mystically supreme position, frightening! (sic) As a catechist, very useful. Thank you. Bad Religion Book by Ross Douthat - Simon & Schuster Read excerpts, watch videos, get book reviews and more about Bad Religion at Simon & Schuster. Michael Sean Winters Reviews Ross Douthat's "Bad Religion: How We ... ROSS DOUTHATS ANALYSIS of religion in America is more sophisticated than the analysis of, say, Rick Santorumbut not by much. There are many ways to be ... Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics by Ross Douthat ... Bad Religion has 261 ratings and 94 reviews. Frank said: I've been a Christian without a community for some time, and this book started to help me realiz... BARNES & NOBLE Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics ... Currently Viewing... Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics (Simon & Schuster) Pub. Date: 4/17/2012 Publisher: Free Press Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics Foreign Affairs Douthat has tried something very brave in this concise and original book: he draws a link between some of the ills in American politics and culture and the decline of ... Ross Douthat: "Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics ... In the years following World War II, traditional religious institutions flourished: more than half of all Americans attended weekly church services, and 70 percent ...
