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Philip Caputo’s heartbreaking and epically formidable new book is placed in Sudan, where conflict is just a permanent situation. Into this theater come help workers, missionaries, and mercenaries of mind whose idealism and bravery often coexist with dangerous ethical blindness. There’s the entrepreneurial National aviator who moves from traveling food and medication to smuggling hands, the Kenyan aid worker who can’t assist viewing the tawdry bottom of his business, and the evangelical Christian who involves Sudan to receive slaves and falls in deep love with a charming rebel leader. It becomes obvious that Functions of Religion is some of those rare books that mix superior ethical importance with amazing story magic, as our knowledge of their figures and their fates intersect increases.