http://www.skepticism.info/ Ideas, books, and quotes on questsions of culture and society. en-us 2005-11-19T21:31:43-05:00 http://www.skepticism.info/archives/religious_violence/000594.shtml Book of the Day: Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence, by Hector Avalos. Publisher: Prometheus Books Most religions depict themselves as forces for peace and harmony; in reality, most religions have been intimately involved in some of the... Religious Violence Skeptic 2005-11-19T21:31:43-05:00 http://www.skepticism.info/archives/law_and_civil_liberties/000593.shtml Book of the Day: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States, edited by Kermit L. Hall, James W. Ely, Joel B. Grossman. Publisher: Oxford University Press. The Supreme Court is one of the most influential... Law and Civil Liberties Skeptic 2005-11-19T21:31:19-05:00 http://www.skepticism.info/archives/american_religion/000592.shtml Book of the Day: Spiritual Clarity, by Jackie Wellman. Publisher: PublishAmerica The popularity of religion is undeniable, but why does religion have such a hold on people, and is its appeal justified? Many try to better understand the nature... American Religion Skeptic 2005-11-19T21:30:59-05:00 http://www.skepticism.info/archives/religion/000591.shtml Book of the Day: New Religious Movements: A Documentary Reader, edited by Dereck Daschke, W. Michael Ashcraft. Publisher: New York University Press. Commonly referred to as cults, new religious movements have been exerting a significant influence on the American... Religion Skeptic 2005-11-19T21:30:39-05:00 http://www.skepticism.info/archives/religious_violence/000590.shtml Book of the Day: The Crusades: A History; Second Edition, by Jonathan Riley-Smith. Publisher: Yale University Press. The Crusades helped define the Middle Ages: its politics, its external relations, and its religion. A fundamental component of Crusader theology was... Religious Violence Skeptic 2005-11-19T21:30:21-05:00 http://www.skepticism.info/archives/islam/000589.shtml Book of the Day: In the Shadow of the Prophet: The Struggle for the Soul of Islam, by Milton Viorst. Publisher: Westview Press. For many people in the West, Islam appears to be a monolithic faith and Muslims an... Islam Skeptic 2005-11-19T21:30:04-05:00 http://www.skepticism.info/archives/islam/000588.shtml Book of the Day: Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats, and the New Politics of Islam, by Anthony Shadid. Publisher: Perseus Press. Islamism is most commonly associated in Westerners' minds with terrorism and violence, but must that always be... Islam Skeptic 2005-11-19T21:29:38-05:00 http://www.skepticism.info/archives/christianity/000587.shtml Book of the Day: Ending Hunger Now: A Challenge To Persons Of Faith, by George S. McGovern, Bob Dole, Donald E. Messer. Publisher: Augsburg Fortress. Hunger is a serious problem in the world - it afflicts 800 million people,... Christianity Skeptic 2005-11-19T21:29:21-05:00 http://www.skepticism.info/archives/ethics/000586.shtml Book of the Day: Genetic Destinies, by Peter Little. Publisher: Oxford University Press. As human scientific knowledge and technological ability progress, the prospects for human control over our genetic code increases. For some, the prospects of genetic manipulation open... Ethics Skeptic 2005-11-19T21:29:00-05:00 http://www.skepticism.info/archives/christianity/000585.shtml Book of the Day: The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945, by Richard Steigman-Gall. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. A popular belief is that Nazism was the polar opposite of Christianity: in Germany, the Nazis planned to eliminate Christian... Christianity Skeptic 2005-11-14T06:24:18-05:00 http://www.skepticism.info/archives/law_and_civil_liberties/000584.shtml Book of the Day: How Democratic Is the American Constitution?, by Robert A. Dahl. Publisher: Yale University Press. Americans are proud of their democracy and the Constitution - so much so, in fact, that they often act as though... Law and Civil Liberties Skeptic 2005-11-14T06:23:58-05:00 http://www.skepticism.info/archives/christianity/000583.shtml Book of the Day: Presumed Guilty: How the Jews Were Blamed for the Death of Jesus, by Peter J. Tomson. Publisher: Augsburg Fortress. The relationship between Christianity and Judaism looms large in the background of both religions. This relationship... Christianity Skeptic 2005-11-14T06:23:02-05:00 http://www.skepticism.info/archives/philosophy/000582.shtml Book of the Day: Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law, by Martha C. Nussbaum. Publisher: Princeton University Press. Sometimes overtly and sometimes covertly, many contemporary legal and social debates actually turn on questions of disgust and shame.... Philosophy Skeptic 2005-11-14T06:22:20-05:00 http://www.skepticism.info/archives/christianity/000581.shtml Book of the Day: Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust, edited by Robert P. Ericksen, Susannah Heschel. Publisher: Augsburg Fortress. The Nazis would not have been able to achieve what they did in Germany and Europe without the active... Christianity Skeptic 2005-11-14T06:22:02-05:00 http://www.skepticism.info/archives/law_and_civil_liberties/000580.shtml Book of the Day: Hitler’s Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany, by Nikolaus Wachsmann. Publisher: Yale University Press. When most people think of imprisonment in the Nazi Germany, they probably imagine concentration camps - and they are justifiably an... Law and Civil Liberties Skeptic 2005-11-14T06:21:30-05:00