When Religion is an Addiction is an interesting book for the sociological heads out there. I know there’s a few of you that read this blog, and so this book is going to fit in right at home with your collection of literary pieces.

The book is a commentary on how the Christian right has overtaken the identities of Americans to an extent that thinking is no longer common place, and that anything not religiously tinged is not the right thing to pursue, or maintain. So bad is the addiction, that the corporations are capitalizing through the media and the ammunition in the guns is centralized around politics.

The book goes on to blame liberals for allowing conservatives to trump in and takeover thanks to religious tones, for many years. By not wanting to offend conservatives, liberals have really taken themselves out of the equation of sorts, and let themselves be run over into a new status in the U.S that is feeding off of religious pressures, rather than the good of a larger audience or body.

This book is full of heavy handed language, and pulls no punches. I was surprised, not by the tone or voice, but the shortage of pages. I would figure this book to be longer, given the subject matter, but it really is shorter than expected, but packs so much information in its packaging, that you might have to read it twice to get it all. It’s really an interesting book that will find its home in many different homes.

The book falls apart, for me, in that it is so focused on one thing, that it is not going to get the main audience appeal that needs to read this. It seems that the book is too smart for its own good, and if you’re not well equipped to already understand religion and politics with a historical background, you’re going to be left in the dust, as the author really pushes forward, with the idea that you’re smart enough to handle the rhetoric.

I wouldn’t recommend this book to everyone, but the premise is so interesting, that you’ll be hard pressed not to pick it up. This is definitely a book that will fit in your sociology book case, but not necessarily one that is going to haunt you in the middle of the night, for not reading.