Unedited Interview with Jennifer Michael Hecht

Published: Jan. 8, 2009, 5 p.m.

b'In this unedited conversation poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht says that as a scholar she always noticed the \\u201cshadow history\\u201d of doubt out of the corner of her eye. She shows how non-belief, skepticism, and doubt have paralleled and at times shaped the world\\u2019s great religious and secular belief systems. She suggests that only in modern time has doubt been narrowly equated with a complete rejection of faith, or a broader sense of mystery. See more at onbeing.org/program/history-doubt/51'