Dan Dennett will be on Radio Open Source today to talk about his book Breaking the Spell. I've been getting into it on the comment boards.
Update: Re: Dennett's book, I read it. It is a good review of the literature, though I highly recommend you go straight into the primary sources (though for Rod Stark, stick to A Theory of Religion, it is dry compared to his other stuff, but far less polemical and grating).
Related: The nature of religion and Breaking the Spell, Who Dan Denett think he be foolin'?.
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O Great Khan, will your comments be starring in the presentation like they did with Pinker?
tengri-willing!