Monday, October 23, 2006

New Books On Religion, Law & Public Policy

A number of new books of interest have recently been published:

Brooke Allen, Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers ,(Ivan R. Dee Publisher, Sept. 2006), reviewed in Sunday's New York Times.

Darryl Hart, A Secular Faith: Why Christianity Favors the Separation of Church and State, (Ivan R. Dee Publisher, Sept. 2006).

Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation, (Knopf, Sept. 2006).

David Pryce-Jones, Betrayal: France, the Jews and the Arabs, (Encounter Books, Oct. 2006).

Robert Royal, The God That Did Not Fail: How Religion Built and Sustains the West, (Encounter Books, Aug. 2006).

Lew Daley, God and the Welfare State, (MIT Press, Oct. 2006).

David Yonke, Sin, Shame & Secrets: The Murder of a Nun, the Conviction of a Priest, and Cover-up in the Catholic Church, (Continuum International, Nov. 2006).

Andrew Greeley & Michael Hout, The Truth about Conservative Christians: What They Think and What They Believe, (University of Chicago Press, Fall 2006).