When looking for the news of the day I stumbled across this op-ed at the Wall Street Journal. After reading it, I thought that some of you would appreciate me linking to it, so therefore this post.
The author of the article, Mary Ann Glendon, lists five books that deal with religion and politics – all five are of an exceptionally high quality according to Ms. Glendon (a professor at Harvard Law School and the author of “A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights”) and should be read by all interested in this subject. Although I do read quite a lot of books every year, I have to admit that I have not read … well, I have not read any of the books listed.
But since they seem to be so interesting, I will try to read a couple of them ASAP (you’ll hear back from me). In the meantime, perhaps you should consider reading a few of them as well.
The books:
“Antigones” by George Steiner.
“Barchester Towers” by Anthony Trollope
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
“Sugar Street” by Naguib Mahfouz, and;
“Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres” by Henry Adams
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