Shelfology Book Pairing

A Story of Violent Faith

by Jon Krakauer

Traces the 1984 murder of a woman and her child by fundamentalist Mormons, exploring the belief systems and traditions that mark the faith's most extreme factions and what their practices reflect about the nature of religion in America.

How Science Can Determine Human Values

by Sam Harris

Sam Harris dismantles the most common justification for religious faith--that a moral system cannot be based on science.