Bad Religion
by Ross Douthat
How We Became a Nation of Heretics
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65%
Critic Reviews: 18
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Reader Ratings: 177
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Synopsis
As the youngest-ever op-ed columnist for the New York Times, Ross Douthat has emerged as one of the most provocative and influential voices of his generation. In Bad Religion he offers a masterful and hard-hitting account of how American Christianity has gone off the rails—and why it threatens to take American society with it. Writing for an era dominated by recession, gridlock, and fears of American decline, Douthat exposes the spiritual roots of the... more
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Published: April 1, 2012 by Simon and Schuster
Genre: Religion & Spirituality, Political & Social Sciences. Non-fiction. 352 pages
- All Critics: 18
- Positive: 13
- Negative: 5
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The American Catholic | 18 Jun 2012
In many respects, Bad Religion reads as an extended and thoughtful reflection on the themes of two of G.K. Chesterton’s best works, Orthodoxy and Heretics, in the contemporary United States.
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The New York Times
And Mr. Douthat never sufficiently confronts the way consumerism and disparities of wealth warp meaningful religiosity.
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The American Conservative | 13 May 2012
Still, it would be churlish to complain about a book as heartfelt and thoughtful as this one.
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QB's Book Reviews | 1 May 2012
Bad Religion is an excellent book. I highly recommend it to my Gentle Readers who are interested in the intersection of Christianity with American culture and politics.
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Patheos | 22 May 2012
Bad Religion does bring at least one charge against America’s heretics, however, that may stick for Mormons.
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The Gregorian Institute | 25 May 2012
Douthat’s book should be must reading for all who seek to understand the times in which we live and how we got to this point.
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The New York Times | 27 Apr 2012
Religion in the rearview mirror never looked better.
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Witness | 30 Apr 2012
If I could give this book six stars, I would do so.
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Pastor Dave | 28 May 2012
I highly recommend this book. As Tim Keller has so aptly said, “Everyone who is interested in why the church is faring as it is in the U.S. culture today needs to get this book.”
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NYT Examiner | 9 Apr 2012
I hope Douthat went to confession before Easter and said he was heartily sorry for the falsehoods he was about to lay on New York Times readers.
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All Saints Blog | 31 May 2012
I hope that in this review I’ve painted a picture of a book that is fascinating, insightful, and very worth reading, for BR is all those things and more.
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Christianity Today | 1 Apr 2012
As you may have gathered from my summary of the book, I read Bad Religion with mounting exasperation.
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The Washington Times | 18 May 2012
As it turns out, “Bad Religion” is a superb documentation of America’s crisis of faith, and a persuasive apology for the restoration of Christian orthodoxy in America.
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The Root | 16 May 2012
While a conservative, he avoids polemics and identifies culprits on both sides of the ideological and theological aisle for the present state of religion in America.
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Commonweal Magazine | 4 May 2012
Bad Religion is lively, provocative, informative, and useful as well as simplistic and misleading. It is a good book by a talented author. It could have been a lot better.
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Patrol | 17 May 2012
And to that end, Bad Religion is nothing if not a compelling case for a Christian doctrine that transcends time and place — particularly our time and place.
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The Aquila Report | 1 Jun 2012
What is remarkable is that with Ross Douthat being who he is and having the prominence that he does, there are a great many people who will take the time to take this in when they otherwise would not come near these ideas with a ten foot pole.
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The New York Times | 27 Apr 2012
...he misdates the Second Great Awakening, mistakes Puritans for Pilgrims and erroneously traces the disaffection of American Catholics to the Second Vatican Council rather than the papal encyclical “Humanae Vitae”...
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