Britain's greatest religious historian chronicles the rise and rise of fundamentalism. One of the most potent forces bedevilling the modern world is religious extremism, and the need to understand it has never been greater. Focusing in detail on Protestant fundamentalism in the United States, Jewish fundamentalism from sixteenth century Spain onwards and Muslim fundamentalism over the last four hundred years, Armstrong examines the patterns that underlie fundamentalism. These evolve from the clash between the conservative pre-modern mind that is governed by a love of myth, and the progressive rational society that relishes change. Fundamentalists view the contemporary world with horror, rejecting its claims to truth, and a state of war now exists over the future of our culture. They are not terrorists, rather, they are innovative, existing in a symbiotic relationship with an aggressive modernity, each urging the other on to greater excess. The Battle for God is original in its thesis and in its understanding; as a history of religious ideas it is fascinating, and as an explanation of one of the most destabilizing forces at large in the world today it is extraordinary.

The Battle for God

Religion & Spirituality

ARMSTRONG, KAREN

Islam

KNOPF.

We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Reflections on the Psalms

Lewis. C.S.

Judaism

HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited

In the Beginning: New Interpretation of Genesis

Harper&Row

In the Beginning: A New Reading of the Book of Genesis

Christian Books & Bibles

Christian Living

Fount

C.S.Lewis

<p>Following the painful loss of his father, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks began to learn how to celebrate life in a new way. This is lively and insightful collection of short pieces reflecting on the happiness he has discovered through family life, children, community, faith, and friendship. Jonathan Sacks has been Chief Rabbi for the British Commonwealth since 1991; he is the author of "The Politics of Hope."</p>

Celebrating Life: Finding Happiness in Unexpected Places

Sacks, Jonathan

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

The second edition of this fascinating book is the ideal introduction to the importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran and their impact on our understanding of the rise of Christianity.    Introduces the Qumran Scrolls to the uninitiated general reader.  Explains how revolutionary the discovery of the Scrolls was and their enduring significance.  Sets the Scrolls within the wider context of Jewish history and religion of the second temple period.  Now expanded to include additional material about the scrolls themselves and recent theories about the community behind them.   This book is not available from Blackwell in the United States and the Philippines.

Deciphering the Dead Sea Scrolls

Campbell, Jonathan G.

Principles Of The Qabalah

Politics & Social Sciences

Jayanti, Amber

Philosophy

Thorsons

RADICAL THEN, RADICAL NOW the legacy of the world's oldest religion

Jonathan Sacks

Harpercollins

<p>This fascinating reference fuels the passionate debate about the biblical Exodus with a provocative thesis: Not only was Moses an Egyptian but so were the Hebrew people who followed him to Canaan.Through linguistic, philologic, and religious explorations, the authors prove that the "Chosen People" were not slaves from a foreign country but high-ranking Egyptian priests and the adherents of the monothiest pharaoh Akhenaton. During a counterrevolution against monotheism, his followers were forced to move to the Egyptian province of Canaan.</p>

Secrets of the Exodus: Did the Pharaohs Write the Bible?

History

Sabbah, Messod & Roger

Africa

Thorsons Pub Ltd

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