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Bookish: Spiritual Anarchists, art about literacy, and Cornel West
This week in Bookish: spiritual anarchists, art about literacy and Cornell West at the library!
Bookish: Spiritual Anarchists, art about literacy, and Cornel West
Tuesday, May 1
Bad Religion
In an American political climate that seems increasingly dictated by religion, the debate is typically between the atheist liberals who can't understand all these crazy religious people and the conservative Christians who see the liberals as doomed sinners. Ross Douthat offers a different theory: It's not that America is too religious or too secular, but rather that the religion in this country has gone rancid. While traditional faith has been on the decline, Douthat argues that a range of pseudo-Christianities have begun to dominate the religious and political climate—ideologies that are often linked to ego, greed, and self-indulgence. As the youngest-ever op-ed columnist for the New York Times, Douthat offers a fresh perspective on the political effects of a shifting religious consciousness, chronicling the history of Christianity as a bipartisan faith in the 1950s to a polarizing factor in the age of President Obama.
7:30 p.m., $15, FLP Central Branch, 1901 Vine St., libwww.freelibrary.org
Wednesday, May 2
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