I was excited to read Religion for Atheists—really I was. Here’s a confessed atheist, pop philosopher Alain de Botton, who nonetheless actually believes that religion is worth looking at, unlike his more militant friends in the New Atheist camp. .
Brook Wilensky-Lanford
Brook Wilensky-Lanford is author of Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religion in America, coming in June 2026, both from Grove Press. Learn more about her work at www.brookwilensky-lanford.com
