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From the writer of Your Brain-Body Problem: an amusing and intoxicating story of ideas that falls in to the great controversy between religion and reason. At the middle is Cass Seltzer, a professor of psychology whose book, The Types of Religious Impression, is becoming a surprise best-seller. Named “the atheist with a spirit,” he wins within the spectacular Lucinda Mandelbaum—“the goddess of sport theory.” But he's haunted by pointers of a couple who ignited his interest to comprehend faith: his instructor Jonas Elijah Klapper, a famous literary student with a dubious infatuation with messianism, and an angelic six-year-old mathematical wizard, heir to the management of an unique Hasidic sect. Hilarious, tragic, and intellectually fascinating, 36 Quarrels examines the rapture and torments of spiritual knowledge in most its variety.