James Carse is an #educator, #author, and #speaker. Carse went to school at the age of five and never left. He was Director of Religious Studies at New York University for thirty years, a member of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, and the recipient of numerous teaching awards. He identifies as an #atheist but says he is religious "in the sense that I am endlessly fascinated with the unknowability of what it means to be human, to exist at all." Carse's recent work on religion and belief provides a foil to New Atheism. His ideas about religion and belief were featured on the May 4, 2012 CBC Radio series Ideas titled After Atheism: New Perspectives on God and Religion, Part 4. His published work reflects the broad interests he brought to the study of @religion and its place in the world. His novel, *PhDeath**, *grew out of a life-long dedication to the institutions of higher education and profound alarm at the self-inflicted degradation of the university; "Western civilization’s noblest creation."
Books
- Jonathan Edwards & The Visibility of God. Charles Scribner's Sons (1967)
- Death and Existence: A Conceptual History of Human Mortality (1980)
- The Silence of God: Meditations on Prayer (1985)
- @Finite and Infinite Games (1987)
- Breakfast at the Victory (1994)
- The Gospel of the Beloved Disciple (1997)
- The Religious Case Against Belief (2008)
- PhDeath: The Puzzler Murders (2016)