Letter to a Christian Nation - A Challenge to the Faith of America

Informationen zum Autor Sam Harris is the author of five New York Times bestsellers. His books include The End of Faith , Letter to a Christian Nation , The Moral Landscape , Free Will , Lying , and Waking Up . The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. His work has been published in more than twenty languages. Harris has written for the New York Times , the Los Angeles Times , the Economist , The Times , the Boston Globe , the Atlantic , Annals of Neurology , and other outlets. He received a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a PhD in neuroscience from UCLA. Please visit his website at SamHarris.org. Richard Dawkins is author of The Selfish Gene , voted The Royal Society's Most Inspiring Science Book of All Time, and also the bestsellers The Blind Watchmaker , Climbing Mount Improbable , The Ancestor's Tale , The God Delusion , and two volumes of autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder and Brief Candle in the Dark . He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford and a fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. In 2013, Dawkins was voted the world’s top thinker in Prospect magazine’s poll of 10,000 readers from over 100 countries. Klappentext Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times bestseller The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason and winner of the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Non-fiction. He is a graduate in philosophy from Stanford University and is now completing a doctorate in neuroscience. He lives in New York. www.samharris.org Zusammenfassung Presents a hard-hitting rebuttal of religious fundamentalism and blind belief. With deceptively simple arguments, the author demolishes the myths on which Christianity was built, challenges believers to open their eyes to the contradictions of their faith and warns us of the dangers of America's ever increasing unification of Church and State....

Product details

• Authors: Sam Harris, Harris Sam
• Assisted by: Richard Dawkins (Foreword)
• Publisher: Bantam UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.02.2007
• EAN: 9780593058978
• ISBN: 978-0-593-05897-8
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 120 mm x 193 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Practical theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; USA, RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ethics, Religious issues & debates, Christian Churches & denominations, Christian Churches, denominations, groups, United States of America, USA, Interfaith relations, Nature and existence of God, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Religious social and pastoral thought and activity, Humanist & Secular Alternatives To Religion, Humanist philosophy, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Christian social thought & activity, Humanist and secular alternatives to religion