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		<title>The Twelve by William Gladstone</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/4740</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Van Cleave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This novel follows the exploits of intellectual and spiritual wunderkind Max Doff who, even as an infant, clearly was set apart from the rest of humanity. He’s destined for greatness along the lines of the Buddha and other prophets. During a near-death experience from a severe case of the flu at age 15, Max has a vision in his euphoric delirium that he can’t quite make sense of yet, but it reveals to him the names of twelve people...]]></description>
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		<title>From Galileo to Gell-Mann: The Wonder That Inspired The Greatest Scientists of All Time in Their Own Words</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/4604</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John R. Guthrie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Duccio Machetto opines in the book’s introduction that, “Today science and theology are more aware of the specific nature of their methods, and take care to avoid ‘incursions’ into what is clearly the field of the other.” Apparently, young earth creationists are not a factor in Italy. The Holy See, however, does feel obliged to weigh in on scientific endeavor from time-to-time, this on a range of issues from Alzheimer’s research using fetal tissue to new and improved techniques of in vitro fertilization. Conversely, scientists such as Richard Dawkins write bestsellers insisting that religion is disproved by science.]]></description>
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		<title>Eat Sleep Sit: My Year at Japan&#8217;s Most Rigorous Zen Temple by Kaoru Nonomura</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/4068</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why drop everything—a decent job, girlfriend, your family—and embrace rigor and sacrifice at a Zen Temple? Kaoru Nonomura, author of <em>Eat Sleep Sit</em>, never directly tells us why he goes to Eiheiji, but he brings us inside the walls and describes the year he spent there with remarkable detail and clarity. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Second Book of the Tao</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/4016</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The principle idea at the core of Existentialism was the denial of Descartes’ <em>I think, therefore I am</em>.  Instead it was, <em>I act, therefore I am</em>.  As for fishing, Thoreau never tells us what sort of fish there are, or were in his stream; nor if he ever caught anything.  It was the fishing that was his active thought, and that sky full of pebbled stars was where his thought was actively cast.  That is poetry, and it is untranslatable as paraphrase or a set of maxims.  Whereas the sort of profundities Stephen Mitchell sets down in this book — neatly-designed and printed withal — are for this reader rebarbative. ]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2215</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Loftus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["For me, death is the one appalling fact which defines life; unless you are constantly aware of it, you cannot begin to understand what life is about; unless you know and feel that the days of wine and roses are limited, that the wine will madeirize and the roses turn brown in their stinking water before all are thrown out forever—including the jug—there is no context to such pleasures and interests as come your way on the road to the grave."]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Shashi Tharoor: Understanding India</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/1331</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["India is a status-quo power: it wants nothing that Pakistan has. Pakistan’s rulers, however, are obsessed with Kashmir, which they have repeatedly tried and failed to wrest from India through war and militancy, and with a desire to “cut India down to size” by bleeding it through terrorism. What needs to happen is for a new political culture to prevail in Pakistan, one that privileges peace, dialogue, co-operation, tourism and trade instead of resentment, bigotry, militarism, intolerance and violence."]]></description>
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		<title>Lisa Alcalay Klug: Releasing Your Inner Heebster</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/1102</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Hartog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But for now, there is only one book and it’s a book that’s all about shouting loudly and proudly that it’s great to be a Jew. The idea for her book came about following an article she wrote for the <em>San Francisco Chronicle</em> back in 2005. “I was writing a feature about how cool it is to be a Jew in San Francisco and I profiled local ‘Heebsters’ as I now call them,” she says.]]></description>
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		<title>Julian The Apostate</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/764</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Murdoch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But with the death of Julian we have something different. To all intents and purposes we can say that paganism died as a credible political and social force in the last days of June 363.]]></description>
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		<title>God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/592</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won. For most people in the West, however, 711 hardly strikes a note of any significance. But it should, for that was the year when a small force of Muslim Arabs and Berbers from Morocco crossed over from North Africa to Spain. Islam reached Europe in 711 and the world has never been the same.]]></description>
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		<title>What the Gospels Meant by Garry Wills</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/563</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And if Wills reads as persuasive, it is to himself, if not quite to this reader.  Taking his stand before the time of St. Ireænus seems somewhat risky to me, if not downright reckless.  I did, however, reflect that there yet remains powerful in this late hour of the West’s history a persistent if unacknowledged ambition of theologians <em>per se</em> to legislate for that <em>cowran, tim'rous beastie</em>, mankind.  Granted, in our tradition we have Moses to thank for their vocation.]]></description>
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		<title>The Common Secret by Susan Wicklund</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/300</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John R. Guthrie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Her home was invaded in her absence. Both muddy boot prints and anti-abortion pamphlets were left behind. Her driveway was barricaded with barrels of concrete to keep her from going to work. Threatening phone calls and letters arrived regularly. Her daughter’s school was invaded and the child harassed to tears. She endured the death of colleagues who were gunned down by anti-abortion zealots. On occasion local authorities were indifferent to her plight, so an armored vest and a .38 caliber revolver became part of her clinic attire.]]></description>
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		<title>Hanna Rosin Discusses God&#8217;s Harvard</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/267</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Tensions often arise between secular teachings and Biblical beliefs. Many students are reading, say Kant and Nietzsche for the first time. They may be alarmed, but they also may find those writers intoxicating."]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/260</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["I conclude that Darwinian processes account for little of the machinery of life, and that most positive evolution must be nonrandom — guided somehow — and I argue that result fits well with the fine-tuning of the universe discovered by physics."]]></description>
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		<title>Jeffrey J. Kripal, Author of Esalen</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/245</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["By human potentialities, Huxley and Esalen meant to refer to all those aspects of the human being that have not been generally developed in western educational practices and culture but are nevertheless quite real. It was Abraham Maslow who gave the Esalen actors a vocabulary and psychology to express how such potentialities might be actualized.” ]]></description>
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		<title>Believers and Infidels</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/215</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wiliam Dalrymple</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ For the first time there was a feeling that technologically, economically and politically, as well as culturally, the British had nothing to learn from India and much to teach; it did not take long for imperial arrogance to set in. This arrogance, when combined with the rise of Evangelical Christianity, slowly came to affect all aspects of relations between the British and the Indians.]]></description>
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		<title>Be Near Me by Andrew O’Hagan</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/211</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Ellam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a broad ranging work as it manages to be poetic whilst drawing on current events in the news, such as the war in  Iraq, teenage delinquency and paedophilia in the Catholic Church.]]></description>
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		<title>Flannery O&#8217;Connor and the Christ-Haunted South by Ralph Wood</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/204</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert C. Cheeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flannery O’Connor was Catholic and Southern, and that combined with her genius produced a writer whose works have become something of a cottage industry.]]></description>
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		<title>What The Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/184</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Blairon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What The Buddha Taught accurately describes itself as a reliable introduction to Buddhism. As a religion with an unrivaled track record for living up to its ideals, Buddhism will certainly be tested as it is absorbed more and more by the West.]]></description>
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		<title>Red &#8211; by Ted Dekker</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/161</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert C. Cheeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Red, The Heroic Defense, Dekker’s brilliant utilization of Christian doctrine and pagan myth provides a resilient foundation upon which he injects a hyper-imaginative storyline with simple, yet crisp dialogue, twisting plots, and layered realities.]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy and Populism : Fear and Hatred by John Lukacs</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/115</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert C. Cheeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may not like what he says, you may not agree with his conclusions, but his thinking and his writing are so broad, rich, and in-depth that all but the most iconoclastic, the most radicalized, is forced to consider his perspectives.]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview With Biographer Ann Seaman</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/81</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["The three were kidnapped at gunpoint at the American Atheist headquarters in Austin, Texas on a Sunday afternoon...They all thought they were going to live once the ransom money was delivered. It didn't turn out that way."]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview with Michael Ruse</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/80</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["I do not think it appropriate to teach non-science in a biology class – especially non-science that is really a form of literalist Christianity in disguise. Even if it were appropriate, I would not want the kind of conservative evangelical religion taught, that I think ID represents. But it is not appropriate and in the US is illegal."]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview With Author Mary Roach</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/79</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["Helen Duncan is my favorite. Huge, chain-smoking woman who used to swoon and occasionally pee herself in the frenzy of spirit possession. Helen had the scientists stumped. She'd produce ectoplasm ... even though the researchers had frisked her and done a cavity search prior to her entering the séance chamber. Turned out she was a talented regurgitator."]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview with Rebecca Goldstein, author of &#8220;Betraying Spinoza&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/55</link>
		<comments>http://calitreview.com/55#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["The issue that animated his life and his thought was that of religious intolerance. The Jews who excommunicated him at the tender age of 23 had themselves been victims of a prolonged, horrific exercise in both religious (as well as racial) intolerance. Spinoza uses this history of suffering to reason his way into uncompromising universalism, an outlook that reduces all the contingencies of birth--our religion and race and, by extension, our nationality, gender, sexual orientation--to details of no significance whatsoever in the real process of self-fulfillment."]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview With Biographer James Connor</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/52</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["This means that we are a people who now live in that shadow world of quasi-existence.  What matters to us is not necessarily what is real, but what is possible given the state of things.  This is a big change, and constitutes a fundamental shift in the way we understand the world."]]></description>
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		<title>Dianetics: A Dialogue</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/37</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You clear me? I clear you? It’s not hypnotism, if that’s what scares you. You’re fully conscious. You merely learn how to scan your tapes. Then you’ll be getting full recalls in real time. Visio, sonic, tactilic, and olofactoric. Kinesthetic — which is weight and motion. Somatic — that’s pain. Thermic and organic — your insides. In Dianetics, organic is also emotive. The fact is, you don't cry because you’re sad. You’re sad because you’re crying. Emotion is physical, not mental like that spooky Freudian stuff.”]]></description>
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		<title>Counsel at Crossroads: Job and Arjuna</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/28</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nandan Datta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Book of Job and a central section of the Indian epic Mahabharata present interesting perspectives on some timeless questions.]]></description>
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		<title>Stemming from … Nowhere?</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/26</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To sum up in a phrase the true and deepest character of Lawrence's genius, it was given by his close friend Aldous Huxley in an introduction to the first collected letters shortly after his death: he was a mystical materialist.  And thereon hangs the tale I shall unfold.]]></description>
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