![]() ![]() Unlike our president and the liberal press. Throughout the book I give extensive and close attention to the dark sides of religious enthusiasm, often drawing on my recent book devoted to that matter: Religious Hostility. ![]() RODNEY STARK: Perhaps it is fitting to get this question out of the way at the start – even though it is worded as if written by Richard Dawkins. What are your thoughts about the rise and growth of religion at a time when barbarism and mass murder is being perpetrated in God’s name? KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: The triumph of religion looks like a grave and deadly thing these days. ![]() Stark writes that “a massive religious awakening is taking place around the world.” He talks more in this interview with KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ of the National Review Institute. Around the globe, four out of every five people claim to belong to an organized faith, and many of the rest say they attend worship services. Is there more faith than not in the world? “The world is more religious than it has ever been,” Rodney Stark writes in his new book The Triumph of Faith: Why the World Is More Religious than Ever. ![]()
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