《天使与恶魔》的秘密 SECRETS OF ANGELS & DEMONS

出版时间：2004-12  出版社：Oversea Publishing House  作者：Dan Burstein and Arne de Keijzer  页数：395  
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内容概要

Set against the backdrop of beautiful Baroque Rome, Secrets of Angels & Demons takes you inside the Vatican to see how the process of conclave and papal selection really works – and who may be elected the next time white smoke is seen at the Vatican. Readers will explore the world of Bernini, master artist of the Baroque era, and the secret meanings behind his symbolism…What really happened in the trial of Galileo…The impact of the Illuminati, the Freemasons, and other secret societies on European and American history…The real state if the art antimatter technology…The centuries-old debate between science and religion.    Building on the model they created for Secrets of the Code: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code, editors Dan Burstein and Arne de Keijzer now take readers on an extended tour of the thought-provoking ideas infusing Dab Brown’s thriller, Angels and Demons.     Millions of readers want to separate fact from fiction in these books. The "Secrets" series teases apart the real and the imagined within the historical labyrinth of conspiracies, cover-ups, messages encoded in famous artworks, secrets societies, and mystical knowledge.     Secrets of Angels & Demons: The Unauthorized Guide to the Bestselling Novel is must reading for anyone fascinated with Dan Brown’s historical mysteries—Angels Demons and The Da Vinci Code.     Here are world-class historians, theologians, philosophers, scientists, art historians, technologists, symbologists, occultists, linguists, and writers and thinkers of all types discussing and debating the issues triggered by Dan Brown’s murder mystery. Burstein and de Keijzer have drawn together this authoritative group of experts to penetrate and explore Angels & Demons, and to begin an exciting, engaging conversation for and with the millions who have read this book. 作者简介：    DAN BURSTEIN is an award-winning journalist, author, and venture capitalist. His most recent book, Secrets of the Code: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code, was a New Fork Times bestselling blockbuster in 2004 and is currently appearing in I9 international editions. The author of six prior books, Burstein is the founder of Millennium Technology Ventures, a New York based venture capital firm.    ARNE DE KEIJZER'S published work has ranged over many disciplines. He was managing editor of Secrets of the Code. He and Dan Burstein were co-authors of Big Dragon, a look at China's economic and political future and its impact on the world.

书籍目录

Editor's NoteIntroduction: Angels & Demons: Rough Draft for The Da Vinci Code, Road Map for Dan Brown's Next Book by Dan Burstein1. The Vatican: An Insider's View  Conclave IOI: 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 2Ist Century    Who are the Papabih? 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 Crossan2. 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 Herrera3. Of Conspiracies and Conspirators: The llluminati 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 Wilson4. 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 Fischbe&'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 Wolfe5. Robert Lanfjd0n's Rome: Art and ha'chitecture  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  ……6. The Science and Technology of Angels & Demons7. Angels & Demons,Dan Brown,and the Art of Fictionalizing"Fact"ContributorsAcknowledgments