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Beliefs – Exploring Religion, Shaped by the Enlightenment

Why canâ??t religion and the Enlightenment be friends? Whatâ??s that, you say? They were friends? Why didnâ??t anyone tell us?

Well, David Sorkin has. A professor of history and Jewish studies at the University of Wisconsin, he argues in a new study that religion and the Enlightenment were even more than friends.