Sociology

From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities....

For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology....

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in America today.

In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris' recent best-seller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion....

In 2007, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett filmed a landmark discussion about modern atheism. Now, the transcript of their conversation is illuminated by new essays from three of the original participants and an introduction by Stephen Fry....

In Our Endangered Values, Carter offers a personal consideration of "moral values" as they relate to the important issues of the day....

Using rational argument, Harris offers a measured refutation of the beliefs that form the core of fundamentalist Christianity....

Art memoir, part investigative journalism, The Exvangelicals is the first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the church....

The first major history of Mormonism in a decade draws on newly available sources to reveal a profoundly divided faith that has nevertheless shaped the nation....

In this explosive new book, Sam Harris tears down the wall between scientific facts and human values....

A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack....

A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality.....

The Theft of America’s Soul is a prophetic wake-up call for all who desire to see our nation thrive, challenging listeners to exchange these 10 lies for truths that will bring peace of mind, harmony, and prosperity back to our country....

Pulitzer Prize winner Eliza Griswold crafts an intimate portrait of a church, its radical mission, and its riveting crisis.

From one of the country’s most respected religion reporters, a paradigm-shifting discussion of how the religious left is actually the moral compass that has long steered America’s political debates, including today....