Do You Believe?: Conversations on God and Religion-Fast Shipping

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Informal, revealing, unexpected, this book is a captivating and thought-provoking meditation how faith, in all its facets, remains profoundly relevant for and in our culture.

“When the Italian writer Antonio Monda sat down to talk religion with American cultural leaders… he went straight for the big questions.” —
O, The Oprah Magazine

Some of the most well-known and well-respected cultural figures of our time enterinto intimate and illuminating conversation about their personal beliefs, about beliefitself, about religion, and about God.

Antonio Monda is a disarming, rigorous interviewer,asking the most difficult questions (he often begins an interview point blank: “Doyou believe in God?”) that lead to the most wide-ranging conversations. An ardentbeliever himself, Monda talks both with atheists (asked what she feels when she meetsa believer, Grace Paley replies: “I respect his thinking and his beliefs, but atthe same time I think he’s deluded”) and other believers, their discussion rangingfrom personal images of God (Michael Cunningham sees God as a black woman, DerekWalcott as a wise old white man with a beard) to religion’s place in American culture,from the afterlife to the concepts of good and evil, from fundamentalism to the almost without fail, the conversations turn to questions of art and Morrison discusses Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, Richard Ford invokesWallace Stevens, and David Lynch draws attention to the religious aspects of Bu–uel, Harold Ramis’s Groundhog Day.