Elizabeth Chittock (Tasmania): Difference Matters. Edward Avery-Natale (Temple): The God Metaphor. Todd McGowan (Vermont): The Necessity of Belief, Or, The Trouble with Atheism. From the Journal of Religion and Society, Paul Cliteur (Leiden): The Definition of Atheism; Andrew Stuart Abel (Hastings) and Andrew Schaefer (Keene State): Seeing Through the Invisible Pink Unicorn; Wioleta Polinska (NCC): The Making and Unmaking of Prejudice: An Interchange between Psychology and Religion; Hans Geser (Zurich): Work Values and Christian Religiosity: An Ambiguous Multidimensional Relationship; and Tomas James Rees (East Sussex): Is Personal Insecurity a Cause of Cross-National Differences in the Intensity of Religious Belief? From The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, Em McAvan (Murdoch): The Postmodern Sacred; and an article on the Wiccan “Great Rite”: Hieros Gamos in the Modern West. A review of books on Islam. Between "New Atheism" and believers, Apatheism forges a different path. Do you care whether the religious ideas you believe in are true or not? Foxhole Atheists: It's time to retire that old stereotype. A review of Monotheism and Tolerance: Recovering a Religion of Reason by Robert Erlewine. A review of Ontology and Providence in Creation: Taking Ex Nihilo Seriously by Mark Ian Thomas Robson. A review of Christology and Science by F. LeRon Shults. More on Eric Kaufmann’s Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? A look at 10 of the world’s most bizarre cults. Catherine Tumber reviews Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment by Phil Zuckerman and Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist by Sharman Apt Russell. Beneath the veil: G. Willow Wilson traveled from B.U. to Cairo, and created a new Muslim life.
