Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
Winter 2016
Publication Information
17 Claremont Rev. Books, no. 1, Winter 2016, at 46.
Abstract
It's Dangerous to Believe: Religious Freedom and Its Enemies, by Mary Eberstadt.
Harper, 192 pages, $25.99
This upending is the subject of Mary Eberstadt's It's Dangerous to Believe. Her previous books Adam and Eve after the Pill (2012) and How the West Really Lost God (2013) - on the sexual revolution and secularism, respectively - showed Eberstadt to be one of America's most discerning cultural critics. It's Dangerous to Believe solidifies that ranking by showing that "the future of religious freedom...appears more clouded than at any time since the American founding." The book is chiefly a chronicle of recent attacks upon the religious liberty of "traditionalist" believers, especially Christians. Eberstadt notes that just a "few years into the third millennium, in a transformation that has taken almost everyone by surprise, these believers have gone from being mainstays of Western culture to existential question marks within it."
Recommended Citation
Gerard V. Bradley,
One Nation, Under God?,
17 Claremont Rev. Books, no. 1, Winter 2016, at 46..
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