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Inside Angels & Demons
The Unauthorized Guide to the International Bestseller
by
Dan Burstein and Arne de Keijzer
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: Angels & Demons: Rough Draft for The Da Vinci Code, Road Map for Dan Brown's Next Book
by Dan Burstein
CHAPTER 1: The Vatican: An Insider's View
Conclave 101: The Past, Present, and Future of the Papal Elections by Greg Tobin
Angels, Demons, and the Next Pope by Amy D. Bernstein
Handicapping the First Papal Election of the 21st Century: Who are the Papabili? by Greg Tobin
Papal Chase: Will the Next Pope Be Black, Hispanic, American, or a Jew? by Steven Waldman
Pontiffs Past, Present, and Future - An Interview with Richard P. McBrien
Who Is Buried in St. Peter's Tomb?
Beyond the Grave by Tom Mueller
"Upon This Rock" by Deirdre Good
The Vatican in the Era of Galileo and Bernini - An Interview with John W. O'Malley, SJ
The Church Since Galileo: Problems Then Are Still Problems Now - An Interview with John Dominic Crossan
CHAPTER 2: Galileo: The Pious Heretic
Galileo Opened the Skies to the Mind of Man by John Castro
On the Copernican Trail - An Interview with Owen Gingerich
Galileo: Right Message at the Wrong Time - An Interview with Steven J. Harris
The Myth of Galileo - An Interview with Wade Rowland
Blind Ambition and Sincere Piety - An Interview with Marcelo Gleiser
Avenging Galileo by Stephan Herrera
CHAPTER 3: Of Conspiracies and Conspirators: The Illuminati Illuminated
On the Trail of the Illuminati: A Journalist's Search for the "Conspiracy That Rules the World" by George Johnson
The Fact-Fiction Reversal: The Illuminati, the New World Order, and Other Conspiracies - An Interview with Michael Barkun
An Occultist's Guide to the Assassins and the Illuminati - An Interview with James Wasserman
Secrets of the Tomb: Inside America's Most Powerful?and Politically Connected?Secret Society - An Interview with Alexandra Robbins
"I Didn't Go Looking for the Illuminati; They Came Looking for Me" - An Interview with Robert Anton Wilson
CHAPTER 4: Two Windows on the Same Universe? The Science vs. Religion Discussion
Leonardo Vetra's Bookshelf by Arne de Keijzer
Worshipping in the Church of Einstein, or How I Found Fischbeck's Rule by George Johnson
Is There a Need for a Divine Designer? by Paul Davies
Holy Wars by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Religion?the Mental Equivalent of a Computer Virus - An Interview with Richard Dawkins
The God Gene - An Interview with Dean Hamer
Cognitive Science Takes On Religion: A New Approach to an Age-Old Question by Hannah de Keijzer
Adam vs. Atom by Josh Wolfe
CHAPTER 5: Robert Langdon's Rome: Art and Architecture
A Bernini Expert Reflects on Dan Brown's Use of the Baroque Master by Tod Marder
Bernini and His Angels -An Interview with Mark S. Weil
The Magical and Mythical in Bernini's Sculpture ? -An Interview with George Lechner
The Secrets of the Vatican Library It Isn't So Secret After All by Michael Herrera
A Scholar Visits the Vatican Library by Tod Marder
Bernini's Symbology and Angels & Demons by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
Rome: City of Angels and Demonic Imaginings by David Downie
"Let Angels Guide You on Your Lofty Quest" by Susan Sanders
CHAPTER 6: The Science and Technology of Angels & Demons
Death Comes to the Cardinals: A Forensics Expert on Murder, Mayhem, and Survival -An Interview with Cyril H. Wecht
Eyeball to Eyeball: The Use of Biometrics in Angels & Demons by James Carlisle and Jennifer Carlisle
The Technology Toys of Angels & Demons by David A. Shugarts
Science as an Evolving Narrative: From Galileo to the Big Bang -An Interview with Marcelo Gleiser
A Day Without Yesterday: Georges Lema?tre and the Big Bang by Mark Midbon
Antimatter Matters by Stephan Herrera
Untangling Dan Brown's Entanglement Theory -An Interview with Amir D. Aczel
CHAPTER 7: Angels & Demons, Dan Brown, and the Art of Fictionalizing "Fact"
The Plot Holes and Intriguing Details of Angels & Demons by David A. Shugarts
What's in a Name? by David A. Shugarts
The Secrets of ambigram@123s by David A. Shugarts and Scott Kim
Adverbs & Demons: Just How Good Is the Former English Teacher's English? by Geoffrey K. Pullum
Novelistic Metaphysics by Glenn W. Erickson
Vox Populi: Commentary on Angels & Demons from CultofDanBrown.com by Leigh-Ann Gerow
Angels & Demons and the Emerging Literary Genre of Art Fiction by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
Contributors
Acknowledgments