<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>6</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rebecca Goldstein</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Thirty-Six Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year></dates><urls><related-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.rebeccagoldstein.com/sites/scholar.iq.harvard.edu/files/rgoldstein/files/printer_friendly.pdf</style></url><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.rebeccagoldstein.com/sites/scholar.iq.harvard.edu/files/rgoldstein/files/mail_on_sunday_-_14_03_10_0.pdf</style></url><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.rebeccagoldstein.com/sites/scholar.iq.harvard.edu/files/rgoldstein/files/jerusalem_report_review_of_thirty-six_0.pdf</style></url><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.rebeccagoldstein.com/sites/scholar.iq.harvard.edu/files/rgoldstein/files/yorkshire_evening_post_-_13_03_10_0.pdf</style></url><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.rebeccagoldstein.com/sites/scholar.iq.harvard.edu/files/rgoldstein/files/36_arguments_for_the_existence_of_god__the_christian_science_monitor_-_csmonitor.com_.pdf</style></url><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.rebeccagoldstein.com/sites/scholar.iq.harvard.edu/files/rgoldstein/files/jewish_chronicle_review_of_36_0.pdf</style></url><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.rebeccagoldstein.com/sites/scholar.iq.harvard.edu/files/rgoldstein/files/tls_-_02_04_10_0.pdf</style></url><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.rebeccagoldstein.com/sites/scholar.iq.harvard.edu/files/rgoldstein/files/books_of_the_times_-_rebecca_newberger_goldsteins_36_arguments_about_god_-_review_-_nytimes.com_.pdf</style></url><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.rebeccagoldstein.com/sites/scholar.iq.harvard.edu/files/rgoldstein/files/jerusalem_report_review_of_thirty-six-1.pdf</style></url><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.rebeccagoldstein.com/sites/scholar.iq.harvard.edu/files/rgoldstein/files/januaryfebruary_2010-36_arguments_for_the_existence_of_god_a_work_of_fiction.pdf</style></url><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.rebeccagoldstein.com/sites/scholar.iq.harvard.edu/files/rgoldstein/files/mail_on_sunday_-_14_03_10-1_0.pdf</style></url><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.rebeccagoldstein.com/sites/scholar.iq.harvard.edu/files/rgoldstein/files/booklist_starred_review.pdf</style></url><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.rebeccagoldstein.com/sites/scholar.iq.harvard.edu/files/rgoldstein/files/publishers_weekly_review_of_36_0.pdf</style></url><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.rebeccagoldstein.com/sites/scholar.iq.harvard.edu/files/rgoldstein/files/the_separationist_review_by_alex_kasman_0.pdf</style></url><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.rebeccagoldstein.com/sites/scholar.iq.harvard.edu/files/rgoldstein/files/jewishbookworldspring2010_0.pdf</style></url><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.rebeccagoldstein.com/sites/scholar.iq.harvard.edu/files/rgoldstein/files/the_times_interview__feature_-_12_03_10_0.pdf</style></url><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.rebeccagoldstein.com/sites/scholar.iq.harvard.edu/files/rgoldstein/files/new_statesman_-interview__29_03_10_0.pdf</style></url><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.rebeccagoldstein.com/sites/scholar.iq.harvard.edu/files/rgoldstein/files/jewish_renaissance_-_01_04_10_0.pdf</style></url><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.rebeccagoldstein.com/sites/scholar.iq.harvard.edu/files/rgoldstein/files/jewish_chronicle_-feature__02_04_10_0.pdf</style></url></related-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pantheon</style></publisher><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Equally adept at fiction (a winner of the National Jewish Book Award) and philosophy (a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “genius” prize), Rebecca Newberger Goldstein now gives us a novel that transforms the great debate between faith and reason into an exhilarating romance of both heart and mind. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At the center: Cass Seltzer, a professor of psychology whose book, The Varieties of Religious Illusion, has become a surprise best seller. He’s been dubbed “the atheist with a soul,” and his sudden celebrity has upended his life. He wins over the stunning Lucinda Mandelbaum–“the goddess of game theory”–and loses himself in a spiritually expansive infatuation. A former girlfriend appears: an anthropologist who invites him to join in her quest for immortality through biochemistry. But he is haunted by reminders of the two people who ignited his passion to understand religion: his teacher Jonas Elijah Klapper, a renowned literary scholar with a suspicious obsession with messianism, and an angelic six-year-old mathematical genius, heir to the leadership of an exotic Hasidic sect. The rush of events in a single dramatic week plays out Cass’s conviction that the religious impulse spills out into life at large. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein explores the rapture and torments of religious experience in all its variety. Hilarious, heartbreaking, and intellectually captivating, it is a luminous and intoxicating novel.&lt;/p&gt;
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