Sociology

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in America today.

For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology....

From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities....

Art memoir, part investigative journalism, The Exvangelicals is the first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the church....

In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris' recent best-seller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion....

Here is an impassioned plea for reason in a world divided by faith....

In this explosive new book, Sam Harris tears down the wall between scientific facts and human values....

After Phil Robertson quoted Scripture in an interview with a national magazine, his hit show, Duck Dynasty, put him on “indefinite hiatus.” Phil immediately knew what had happened: he had become a target of cancel culture.

A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack....

Finding one's calling is not just about finding something we can do - it is about finding what we can't not do....

Pulitzer Prize winner Eliza Griswold crafts an intimate portrait of a church, its radical mission, and its riveting crisis.

Using national survey data, in-depth interviews, and focus group results gathered over several years, Emerson and Bracey show how the Religion of Whiteness shapes the practice of Christianity for millions of Americans—and what can be done to confront it.

Power. Fear. Violence. These three idols of Christian nationalism are corrupting American Christianity. Andrew Whitehead is a leading scholar on Christian nationalism in America and speaks widely on its effects within Christian communities....

In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American religion and politics, Anthea Butler answers that racism is at the core of conservative evangelical activism and power....

Using rational argument, Harris offers a measured refutation of the beliefs that form the core of fundamentalist Christianity....

An atheist’s impassioned call for nonbelievers to be honest with themselves and their families about their lack of belief—and help change the American cultural conversation....

In a deeply personal follow-up to his #1 bestseller This is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends about Racism, a modern media iconoclast faces a test of faith—and reveals how such tribulations can make us stronger, as individuals and as a nation.

In Blood Brothers, Elias Chacour blends his riveting life story with historical research to reveal a little-known side of the Arab-Israeli conflict....

At the dawn of the 21st century, for good and for evil, religion remains the single greatest influence in the world....

The American republic is suffering its gravest crisis since the Civil War. Competing visions have led to a dangerous moment of cultural self-destruction. Os Guinness argues that we face a fundamental crisis of freedom, as America's genius for freedom has become her Achilles' heel....

Drawing on both archaeological and historical evidence, Stark is able to provide hard statistical evidence on the religious life of the Roman Empire to discover the facts that set conventional history on its head....

Why You Think the Way You Do traces the development of the worldviews that underpin the Western world.

In TechGnosis, Erik Davis argues that while the realms of the digital and the spiritual may seem worlds apart, esoteric and religious impulses have in fact always permeated (and sometimes inspired) technological communication....

A groundbreaking book about Americans searching for faith and mutual respect, The Faith Club weaves the story of three women, their three religions, and their urgent quest to understand one another....

In this groundbreaking new book, acclaimed researcher and author George Barna identifies, describes, and analyzes seven major "faith tribes" in America....