The Battle for God (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Karen Armstrong

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One of the most potent forces bedevilling the modern world is religious extremism. The need to understand it has never been greater, and Karen Armstrong attempts to do so in this text. Focusing in detail on Protestant fundamentalism in the United States, Jewish fundamentalism from 16th century Spain onwards and of course latterly in Israel, and Muslim fundamentalism over the last 400 years, she brings her deeply informed religious understanding to bear on the patterns that underlie fundamentalism. These evolve from the clash between - as she explains it - the conservative pre-modern mind that is governed by a...Read more
  • ISBN10 0679435972
  • ISBN13 9780679435976
  • Publish Date 7 March 2000 (first published 1 March 2000)
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Random House USA Inc
  • Imprint Random House Inc
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 464
  • Language English