This Incredible Need to Believe

"A sprawling analysis of religion in major psychological and philosophical literature, fiction and in private life . . . compelling and remarkable."-Publishers Weekly

"Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of 'frightening' either the faithful or the agnostics, that the history of Christianity prepared the world for humanism."

So writes Julia Kristeva in this provocative work, which skill...