Editor's Summary
2 February 2006
The wrong book?
In Daniel Dennett's 'Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon', the Tufts University cognitive scientist takes on religion. In particular, religion in the United States. But, according to Nature's reviewer, this is not the book to help believer and non-believer understand each other.
Books and Arts: A natural history of religion
A darwinian philosopher turns his attention to the strength of religion in the United States.
doi:10.1038/439535a