Contents

Author’s Note

Acknowledgments

Who’s in Charge of the World’s Mysteries?

Chapter One. The Traveler to Excellent Beauty: Invited Rather Than Drafted

Part One. Of Spiritual Journeys

Chapter Two. What Is a Religion?

Chapter Three. The One Billion

Chapter Four. The Traveler’s Dark Night of the Soul

Appendix to Chapter 4: Statistics and Probability Meet Job

Part Two. The Biology of Religion, the Psychology of Morality

Chapter Five. Justifying the Ways of God to Man via Evolution

Appendix to Chapter 5: Yes, There Really Is Such a Thing as a Coincidence

Chapter Six. Does God Want You Dead?

Chapter Seven. Good Without Gods

Part Three. The Journey in Tatters

Chapter Eight. Beyond Atheism: The Religion Illusion

Chapter Nine. The Janus-Faced Hominid

Part Four. The Heretic’s Way: Into the Mysterious Realm

Chapter Ten. Some Strangeness in the Proportion

Appendix to Chapter 10: A Compendium of Mysteries

Chapter Eleven. The Beauty of Seeing More Than We Can Understand

Appendix to Chapter 11: Welcome to the Inscrutable

Chapter Twelve. The Personal Mystery and the Impersonal God

Chapter Thrirteen. Summa Mysteriologica

Notes

Bibliography

Index