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		<title>The Atheist’s Guide To Reality: Enjoying Life Without Illusions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Alex Rosenberg via 3:A Magazine ‘This is a book for atheists’. Rosenberg makes this explicit in the preface. Atheism requires a whole view of the world based on science that is ‘demanding, rigorous, breathtaking.’ There’s a feeling you get when reading Rosenberg that he’s fed up with atheists who avoid facing up to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Accidental Universe: Science&#8217;s Crisis of Faith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Alan P. Lightman via Harper&#8217;s Magazine In the fifth century B.C., the philosopher Democritus proposed that all matter was made of tiny and indivisible atoms, which came in various sizes and textures—some hard and some soft, some smooth and some thorny. The atoms themselves were taken as givens. In the nineteenth century, scientists discovered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://religioninsociety.com/2012/01/30/the-accidental-universe-sciences-crisis-of-faith/</link>
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		<title>The Promotion of Devotion: Saints, Celebrities and Shrines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a special offer, all orders placed by 31 March 2012 receive the introductory price of US$25 (RRP US$35). You can order online here. The Promotion of Devotion: Saints, Celebrities and Shrines by Donn James Tilson is available as part of the Religion in Society series. What do St. Francis, Oskar Schindler, Princess Diana and Smokey Bear have in common? Religion, communication [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://religioninsociety.com/2012/01/29/the-promotion-of-devotion-saints-celebrities-and-shrines/</link>
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		<title>On Neutrinos and Angels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Pervez Hoodbhoy via The Express Tribune The news from CERN was stunning: the European nuclear science laboratory had just discovered (September 2011) that particles known as neutrinos — called so because they are neutral and carry no charge — habitually travel a little bit faster than light. This threatened to shake the very foundations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://religioninsociety.com/2012/01/26/on-neutrinos-and-angels/</link>
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		<title>Anglicanism and Homosexuality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a special offer, all orders placed by 31 March 2012 receive the introductory price of US$20 (RRP US$30). You can order online here. Faith, Belief, and Scripture: Anglicanism and Homosexuality by Rob James is now available as part of the Religion in Society series. The Anglican Communion has been tearing itself apart over the issue of homosexuality since the Lambeth Conference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Grace: Public sociology: rigor and relevance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From David E. Campbell and Robert D. Putnam at The Immanent Frame&#8230; Any authors would be pleased by an array of laudatory and thoughtful comments on their work, especially by a group of critics as distinguished and diverse as this. We are grateful for the care and attention our commentators have taken with American Grace, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://religioninsociety.com/2011/12/29/american-grace-public-sociology-rigor-and-relevance/</link>
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		<title>The Shadow Saint</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Murray Kempton from The New York Review of Books on The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens&#8230; Eric Partridge has informed us that “the missionary position” is an expression of South Sea islander coinage. If Christopher Hitchens did not share the widespread misapprehension of blasphemous intent in his grand remonstrance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://religioninsociety.com/2011/12/20/the-shadow-saint/</link>
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		<title>The Pope’s Life of Jesus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Tom Wright at The Times Literary Supplement&#8230; Jesus of Nazareth remains a disturbing presence, a question mark hanging over uneasy Western world-views. Some invoke him unquestioningly as the divine, redeeming Son of God. Others dismiss him as a minor figure whose followers invented stories about him and a religion around him. No serious historian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://religioninsociety.com/2011/12/19/the-pope%e2%80%99s-life-of-jesus/</link>
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		<title>Religion in Human Evolution: Weber for the 21st century</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Richard Madsen at The Immanent Frame&#8230; For almost one hundred years, all sociologists of religion have taken Max Weber’s great work on comparative religions as a primary point of departure. Whole libraries of scholarship have been produced to explicate Weber, expand on Weber, disagree with Weber, revise Weber. In the next hundred years, I think, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://religioninsociety.com/2011/12/08/religion-in-human-evolution-weber-for-the-21st-century/</link>
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		<title>Religion and Spirituality in Society Journal Recently Published</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently published papers in The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society include: Integrationalism: Spiritual Disincentives for Humanity by James Felton Keith. Figures and Forms of Ultimacy: Manifestation and Proclamation as Paradigms of the Sacred by Donald L. Wallenfang. The “Seekers of the Light”: Christian Scientists in the United States, 1890-1910 by Rolf Swensen. Approaches to [...]]]></description>
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