by Mitch Horowitz, author of Occult America: White House Seances, Ouija Circles, Masons, and the Secret Mystic History of Our Nation (Bantam hardcover 2009, Bantam trade paperback October 2010). In 1970, philosopher Jacob Needleman opened a new discussion about religion in America. His book The New Religions was one of the first scholarly works to [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Religion’
August 9, 2010
The Occult and the Making of American Religion
Filed under Author Essays
Tags: American Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Religion, Occult America, American history, Mitch Horowitz
January 5, 2010
Why You’re Wrong About the Crusades
by Lars Brownworth, author of Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization (Crown, 2009). There are few words as controversial—or as misunderstood—as ‘crusade’. Those who doubt that need only remember nine years ago when President George W. Bush casually used it to describe the War on Terror. The ensuing firestorm caused [...]
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Tags: History, International Relations, Islam, Lars Brownworth, Middle East, Political Science, Politics, Religion
