Description: A distinguished historian of religion explores the contemporary culture of the Western world.
Review Quotes:
"...one learns a great deal in this relatively short book." -- Science et Spirit
"The author raises fundamental questions about the nature of knowledge and the act of knowing in order to scrutinize the way members of academic disciplines conduct themselves. Rather than allowing the intellectual questions to remain abstract, they are used to evaluate the practices of the Academy.
"Smith raises a loud and insistent voice in his demand that we take personal responsibility for what we count as truth and for how we deploy it. Voices are being raised in other places as well that demand that we look at the personal relationship between ourselves and what we know. This book makes this case extremely well." -- Francisca Cho Bantly, Georgetown University