Krista Tippett

In 1965, a young Harvard professor became the best-selling voice of secularism in America with his book The Secular City. He sees the old thinking in the “new atheism” of figures like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. The either/or debates between religion and atheism, he says, obscure the truly interesting interplay between faith and other forms of knowledge that is unfolding today.

A young Harvard professor's book The Secular City became the best-selling voice of secularism in America, and he sees the old thinking in the "new atheism" of figures like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens.

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