
Date: 2007
Page count: 228 pages
Format: B/5
ISBN: 978-963-9132-95-5
Category: from English
Original price: 2600 Ft
Recent polls report that
96% of Americans believe in God. Why is this? Why, despite the rise of
science, technology, and secular education, are people turning to religion
in greater numbers than ever before? Why do people believe in God at all?
These provocative questions
lie at the heart of How We Believe, an illuminating new study of God, faith,
and religion by best-selling author Michael Shermer. Offering fresh and
often startling insights into age-old questions, Shermer’s new book explores
how and why humans put their faith in a higher power, even in the face
of scíentific scepticism. With characteristic logic and intellectual intensity,
Shermer investigates such compelling topics as
– What it means to believe
or not to believe in God today
– The evolution of religion
as a powerful human institution
– “Is God Dead?” Why
Nietzsche and Time magazine were wrong
– What 10,000 Americans
said in reply to the questions, “Why do you believe in God?” and “Why do
you think other people believe in God?”
– “Proofs” of God’s
existence and what they tell us about faith
– How we can find meaning
in an apparently meaningless universe
Whether believers or
nonbelievers, we are all driven by the need to understand the universe
and our place in it. Journeying to the heart of this ancient and mysterious
desire, How We Believe is a brilliant tour de force that should be read
by anyone trying to find a path to enlightenment.