Introduction : sometimes, the magic works
Part One-Christianity : Soldiers for Christ
1. The descent of the spirit
2. Bob Abernethy : no fundamental, life-changing experience
3. Chinua Achebe : What makes someone give up their religion?
4. Huston Smith : religion saturated the house
5. Julia Sweeney : that soldier-of-Christ, slap-across-the-face stuff is sick
6. Jim Zogby : the Wal-Mart-ization of the church
Part Two-Judaism : Would Anne Frank sing karaoke?
7. What, really, is a man?
8. Leon Botstein : I'm tone-deaf to belief
9. Roz Chast : I was like a spy, like a closet Jew
10. Rabbi Harold Kushner : I wanted to make my parents proud
11. Letty and Abigail Pogrebin, mother and daughter : "You are a woman" meant "You do the dishes"
12. Ram Dass : mushrooms gave me what I could have had at my Bar Mitzvah
13. Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin : Israel and I came of age together
14. Elie Wiesel : I am not God's policeman
Part Three-Hinduism : Coming to Brahma, knowing nirvana
16. Deepak and Gotham Chopra, father and son : religion is frequently idiotic
Part Four-Buddhism : Original perfection versus original sin
18. Roshi John Daido Loori : born a Buddha. Die a Buddha
19. Robert Thruman : I looked like Henry Miller in drag
Part Five-Islam : Seven essential words
21. Coleman Barks : just being sentient is cause for rapture
22. Dr. Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) : floating on a cloud of mercy
23. Michael Wolfe : I feel like a monotheist with extra credentials
Epilogue : Would anyone riding by on a horse even notice?
