
Bad Religion
How We Became a Nation of Heretics
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$0.00 for first 30 days
Buy for $18.91
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Lloyd James
-
By:
-
Ross Douthat
As the youngest-ever op-ed columnist for the New York Times and the author of the critically acclaimed books Privilege and Grand New Party, Ross Douthat has emerged as one of the most provocative and influential voices of his generation. Now 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.
In a story that moves from the 1950s to the age of Obama, Douthat brilliantly charts traditional Christianity's decline from a vigorous, mainstream, and bipartisan faith - which acted as a "vital center" and the moral force behind the Civil Rights movement - through the culture wars of the 1960s and 1970s and down to the polarizing debates of the present day. He argues that Christianity's place in American life has increasingly been taken over, not by atheism, but by heresy: debased versions of Christian faith that breed hubris, greed, and self-absorption.
Ranging from Glenn Beck to Eat Pray Love, Joel Osteen to The Da Vinci Code, Oprah Winfrey to Sarah Palin, Douthat explores how the prosperity gospel's mantra of "pray and grow rich", a cult of self-esteem that reduces God to a life coach, and the warring political religions of left and right have crippled the country's ability to confront our most pressing challenges and accelerated American decline. His urgent call for a revival of traditional Christianity is sure to generate controversy, and it will be vital listening for all those concerned about the imperiled American future.
©2012 Ross Douthat (P)2012 TantorListeners also enjoyed...




















People who viewed this also viewed...


















A Clear Indictment...
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Would you listen to Bad Religion again? Why?
No, but I never listen to anything twiceWhat other book might you compare Bad Religion to and why?
I have never read a book on the topic of relegion like this book.What does Lloyd James bring to the story that you wouldn???t experience if you just read the book?
Very good narrator. His voice and style fit the book.If you could give Bad Religion a new subtitle, what would it be?
A history of the 20th century church in America and where it is going in the 21rstMuch better than expected
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I appreciate the final chapter and agree with many of it's conclusions.
A creditable critique of American Christianity?
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The best case forChristian orthodoxy since C.S. Lewis’ “Mere Christianity”
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Still a great read 12 years later
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
1. He goes beyond the common denominator of mere Christianity to objectively call out what is and is not Christianity.
2. He conveys his argument in a gentle and fatherly way that is respectful of the reader and their particular creed, yet assertive in delivering the radical challenge of Christ, which the orthodox Christian Faith's have preserved over the millennia.
This is an academic and scholarly read, so if you are like me, it may get dull at times. Nonetheless, I applaud Ross for the way he so delicately, yet strongly, challenges American culture to see the great value of authentic Christian culture, and the universal danger of watering it down to an unorthodox relative dogma to be used for one's own personal justification.
Most Christian book of our time
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
What impressed me is the author states there may be some bias in his work. And while there may be, I thought he dealt fairly with the issues he brought up.
Eye-opening
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Thought Reverberating on 2 Levels
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Would you try another book from Ross Douthat and/or Lloyd James?
Lloyd James is a compelling narrator as he seems to understand the material and reads the more academic sections in understandable prose. He is by far my favourite non-fiction narrator.I think that Mr Douthat gives huge food for thought, especially to a non-American trying to understand the political landscape. Although, I do not necessarily agree with all his conclusions he certainly made me think about how I view the institutional Catholic Church, the Pentecostal movement as it is working itself through Africa and the new religion of "self". I would have liked more systematic theological depth as I thought that this could have strengthened some of his arguments. I also would have liked him to make more connections between the history of Church development in the US with the political situation now. However this is my particular bias as Church history in general and the historical development of systematic theology is a bit of a passion.
All in all a compelling "read" and I will definitely be following his views throughout the election period. Not necessarily in agreement but as an interesting point of clarification for my own thoughts.
Food for thought
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I wanted to like this! But it was just too dull.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.