The Battle for God

Armstrong, Karen

ISBN 10: 0060591870 ISBN 13: 9780060591878

Publisher: Harperaudio, 2004

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 2004 02 Publisher: Harper Fundamentalism has emerged as one of the most powerful forces at work in the world. However. it remains incomprehensible to the large numbers of people In The Battle for God Karen Armstrong illiantly and sympathetically shows us how and why fundamentalist groups came into existence and what they yearn to accomplish. Focusing on Protestant. Jewish. and Muslim fundamentalism. she examines the ways in which these movements. while not monolithic. have each sprung from a dread of modernity - and often in response to assault. sometimes unwitting. sometimes intentional. by the mainstream society. Armstrong sees the fundamentalist groups as complex. innovative. and modern - rather than throwbacks to the past - but contends that they have failed in religious terms. Maintaining that fundamentalism often exists in symbiotic relationship wi...

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From one of today's foremost commentators on religious affairs and the author of A History of God comes an insightful chronicle of the fundamentalist form of religion and the forces of modernism that have, paradoxically, brought it into existence. Read by the author. Book available.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harperaudio
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0060591870
• ISBN 13: 9780060591878
• Binding: Audio CD