The Other Magisterium

Religion: Poetic License?

User Image bushwells | July 21, 2008
The lead article in Salon's newsletter caught my eye this morning when I perused the ol' Google-mail Inbox. Under the auspices of Salon's "Atoms and Eden: Conversations About Science and Faith," Steve Paulson interviews James Carse (retired director of NYU's Religious Studies Program) in Religion is Poetry. The byline: "The beauties of religion need to be saved from both the true believers and the trendy atheists, argues compelling religious scholar James Carse." The interview comes on the heels of the publication of Carse's new book, The Religious Case Against Belief. Cerberus guards the…