Bruno Latour's long term project is to compare the felicity
and infelicity conditions of the different values dearest to the
heart of those who have 'never been modern'. According
to him, this is the only way to develop an anthropology of the
Moderns. After his work on science, on technology and, more
recently, on law, this book explores the truth conditions of
religious speech acts.

Even though there is no question that religion is one of the values
that has been intensely cherished in the course of history,
it's also clear that it has become immensely difficult to
tune in to its highly specific mode of enunciation. Every effort to
speak in the right key sounds awkward, reactionary, pious or simply
empty. Hence the necessity of devising a way of writing that brings
to the fore this elusive form of speech to render it audible again.
In this highly original book, the author offers a completely
different tack on the endless 'science and religion'
conflict by protecting them both from the confusion with the notion
of information. Like The Making of Law, this book is one more
attempt at developing this 'inquiry on modes of
existence' that provides an alternative definition of
society.

Bruno Latour is one of the world's leading sociologists and
anthropologists. He taught at the École des Mines in Paris
from 1982 to 2006 and he is now Professor and Vice-President for
Research at Institut d'études politiques (Sciences Po). His
many books include Laboratory Life, We Have Never Been
Modern, Reassembling the Social and The Making of
Law.

"In a book both informative and transformative, Latour may well
have succeeded in his aim to 'reboot the teeniest hint of a
beginning of a religious sentiment'"

Southern Semiotic Review

"Rejoicing is a kind of meditation: Latour has
composed, in Yeats' phrase, a dialogue of self and
soul."

Chicago Tribune

"In this honest , profound yet accessible book, a distinguished
French scholar and public intellectual carries on an agonized
dialog with himself as he faces the obstacles to religious faith
today - and then points toward a resolution. As I read, I felt he
had climbed into my soul."

John O'Malley, Georgetown University

"Rejoicing constitutes a creative, thought-provoking and
impressive blend of, and reflection upon, learning and
traditions."

Rebecca Catto, Coventry University