![]() ![]() "Zuckerman's writing is engaging and straightforward, which makes for enjoyable reading. "This could-be-dry content proves immensely engaging becuase of Zuckerman's jargin-free exposition and his seamless incorporation of interview material rendered apparently verbatim-verbal tics("like,""you know," etc) and all-in the manner of a good documentart film."-Ray Olson, Booklist Documenting their journeys and placing them in sociological context, this book establishes Phil Zuckerman as one of the most sophisticated analysts of secularity today." -Arlene Stein, Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University Far from being kneejerk atheists, it turns out that the most secular Americans have actually spent a lot of time wrestling with their faith. " Faith No More helps us understand the diverse routes people take to irreligiosity and the dilemmas they face in a culture that often condemns them. It is a wonderfully informative and provocative study and should be read by everyone interested in the real experience of religion and irreligion." -Jennifer Michael Hecht, author of Doubt: A History His care in not rounding all these up into any facile overarching theories is itself almost supernatural, and yet in this careful reporting of their stories he manages to offer a great deal of insight. "With Faith No More Philip Zuckerman has given us a fascinating look at how individual contemporary Americans raised in various religions awakened out of a belief in the supernatural. Faith No More offers a fascinating look at these lives, and at the myriad ways in which thoughtful people can come to their senses." -Sam Harris, author of the New York Times bestsellers The Moral Landscape, Letter to a Christian Nation, and The End of Faith This conflict finds its most poignant expression in the lives of men and women who have lost their belief in God despite their best efforts to maintain it. "Everyone knows, deep down, that there is a conflict between reason and faith-between having good reasons for what one believes and having bad ones. The first book of its kind, Faith No More will appeal to anyone interested in the "New Atheism" and indeed to anyone wishing to more fully understand our changing relationship to religious faith. Zuckerman predicts that this trend toward nonbelief will likely continue and argues that the sooner we recognize that religion is frequently and freely rejected by all sorts of men and women, the sooner our understanding of the human condition will improve. And he finds that, rather than the cliché of the angry, nihilistic atheist, apostates are life-affirming, courageous, highly intelligent and inquisitive, and deeply moral. Exploring the deeper stories within such survey data, Zuckerman shows that leaving one's faith is a highly personal, complex, and drawn-out process. According to a 2008 study, so many Americans claim no religion (15%, up from 8% in 1990) that this category now outranks every other religious group except Catholics and Baptists. ![]() In Faith No More, Phil Zuckerman draws on in-depth interviews with people who have left religion to find out what's really behind the process of losing one's faith. ![]() And yet the reasons why more and more people are turning away from religion are still poorly understood. During his 2009 inaugural speech, President Obama described the United States as a nation of "Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus-and nonbelievers." It was the first time an American president had acknowledged the existence of this rapidly growing segment of the population in such a public forum. ![]()
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