Alain de Botton, author of The Consolations of Philosophy and other bestsellers, has a new book out called Religion for Atheists. It encourages atheists to appreciate things religions do well--ranging from fostering community to orchestrating rites of passage--and make use of them, except without the belief-in-God part. I asked him how, exactly, the atheist’s equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a Catholic confirmation would work: