Book review

Just when my summer reading list was beginning to burst at the seams, this book review pops into focus as I was scrolling through the Wilson Quarterly website:

SACRED AND SECULAR: Religion and Politics Worldwide
by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart. (Cambridge Univ. Press)
Reviewed by: Os Guinness

A quote from the review:

"Religion is the key to history, Lord Acton wrote. In today’s intellectual circles, however, it’s more like the skunk at the garden party. To many intellectuals, religion is a private matter at best, and most appropriately considered in terms of its functions rather than the significance of its beliefs, let alone its truth claims. At worst, it’s the main source of the world’s conflicts and violence—what Gore Vidal, in his Lowell Lecture at Harvard University in 1992, called “the great unmentionable evil” at the heart of our culture."