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About this book
What is it like to be a preacher or rabbi who no longer believes in God? In this expanded and updated edition of their groundbreaking study, Daniel C. Dennett and Linda LaScola comprehensively and sensitively expose an inconvenient truth that religious institutions face in the new transparency of the information ageâthe phenomenon of clergy who no longer believe what they publicly preach. In confidential interviews, clergy from across the ministerial spectrumâfrom liberal to literalâreveal how their lives of religious service and study have led them to a truth inimical to their professed beliefs and profession. Although their personal stories are as varied as the denominations they once represented, or continue to representâwhether Catholic, Baptist, Episcopalian, Methodist, Mormon, Pentecostal, or any of numerous othersâthey give voice not only to their own struggles but also to those who similarly suffer in tender and lonely silence. As this study poignantly and vividly reveals, their common journey has far-reaching implications not only for their families, their congregations, and their communitiesâbut also for the very future of religion.Â
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword by Richard Dawkins
- Preface to the Expanded and Updated Edition
- I. Introduction
- II. Seven Sketches
- III. Breaking the ShellâTransparency and the Survival of Religions
- IV. From the Ivory Tower to the People in the Pews
- V. Emerging Themes
- VI. Where Are They Now?
- VII. The Inner ShellâIsolating Pastors From Their Parishioners and From Themselves
- VIII. Whatâs Next? A Response to Requests for Our Studyâs âConclusionsâ
- Acknowledgments
- Appendices
- Notes
- References and Resources
- About the Authors