Confession And Other Religious Writings

Introduction
A Confession
What Is Religion And Of What Does Its Essence Consist?
Religion And Morality
The Law Of Love And The Law Of Violence
Explanatory Notes

Additional Info
Tolstoy’s passionate and iconoclastic writings–on issues of faith, immortality, freedom, violence, and morality–reflect his intellectual search for truth and a religion firmly grounded in reality. The selection includes “A Confession,” “Religion and Morality,” “What Is Religion, and of What Does Its Essence Consist?,” and “The Law of Love and the Law of Violence.”