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Book review: Captive Gods: Religion and the rise of social science by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Book review: Captive Gods: Religion and the rise of social science by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Thursday, February 5, 2026
PROFESSOR Appiah, the author of this erudite book, gave the Reith Lectures in 2016: “discussing ways in which people’s thinking about religion, nation, race and culture often reflects misunderstandings about identity” (BBC depiction). His father w...