Taking Religion Seriously isn’t a book you would expect from a political scientist best known for Losing Ground and The Bell Curve. It’s not, however, surprising that a man eighty-two years of age should ponder the topics addressed in this brief work that can be read in a few hours. Broadly speaking, those topics are God, morality, and Christianity.
Though Charles Murray claims no special expertise on those matters, it’s obvious he’s devoted considerable time to exploring the subject matter — a largely intellectual journey that began three decades earlier with his wife’s pursuit of a religious community congruent with her profound experience of motherly love. The latter search found a suitable destination with the Quakers. Charles’s more intellectual investigations are summarized in this book, which offers tentative conclusions plus a plethora of books suggested for further investigation.
