"Russell Shorto does a crackerjack job of summing up the latest research on the historical Jesus. Without taking sides, Shorto draws a fascinating picture of Jesus the man by approaching the topic from all available angles"
-- Amazon.com

“A captivating book…It adds mightily to the task of bringing the Jesus search out of the academy and planting it on Main Street” -- Bishop John Shelby Spong

“An up-to-date survey and smart lay analysis”

-- Time

Psychiatry, once famously opposed to religion, has done an about-face. Some psychiatrists today have set off into what they see as the last frontier: the spiritual self. In this moving and impeccably researched narrative, Shorto tells stories of people suffering from what were once deemed spiritual afflictions, then came to be seen as medical disorders, and now are being treated as both.

"Russell Shorto's Saints and Madmen is a book for which many of us have waited for a great many years...The scope is awesome and the vividness of its stories breathtaking" -- Maurice Friedman, PhD, author of Religion and Psychology

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