This will make more sense as the review below unfolds. Haidt’s experience with evangelical Christians at UVA helped him to realize, to his astonishment, as a secular Jew, that conservative evangelical Christians can be moral, too. But I was stunned to find out that The Righteous Mind, actually has a lot of lessons to be learned by evangelical Christians. Jonathan Haidt specializes his research in an area known as “moral psychology,” which probably sounds like a bunch of academic “hooey,” to many Christians I know. I can not believe I waited this long to read it! The Righteous Mind is the best book I read this year. But that encounter with evangelical Christians at UVA changed his approach to scholarship, and it really shows in The Righteous Mind. Haidt grew up as a secular Jew, and rarely ever met any evangelical Christians, until he taught a few years ago at the University of Virginia. Jonathan Haidt, the author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, is a social psychologist at the New York University, Stern, in their School of Business. If I could ever get my fellow Christians to read just one book written by a secular-thinking atheist, this would be it. Though written by an atheist, Haidt makes sense of why different Christians (and people in general) think so differently.
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