“Michael Novak, one of the liveliest minds on the American religious scene today, here seeks to introduce religious studies by making the reader reflect about his own experience. The approach throughout is existential rather than abstractly intellectual. There is a particular effort to relate to the concerns of the contemporary student generation.”

Peter L. Berger
Rutgers University

“ Michael Novak is an expert at picking out the categories which prove to be fruitful in the study of religion, categories like story and autobiography, standpoint and horizon, symbol and sense of reality.”

John Dunne
University of Notre Dame