Christopher Catherwood

Why the Nations Rage

Killing in the Name of God

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Produktbeschreibung

This thoughtful book explores much of the background to the strife the globe faces today. In particular, Christopher Catherwood shows how religion and national pride, which are supposed to be positive forces, can become perverted ideologies that arouse hatred, slaughter, and war.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• 224th Revised, Updated edition
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 163mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780742500907
• ISBN-10: 074250090X
• Artikelnr.: 21856906

Autorenporträt

Christopher Catherwood is a historian, lecturer, and writer based in Cambridge, England. He wrote this book while a visiting scholar at Cambridge University's Centre of International Studies and a Rockefeller Resident Fellow at the Institute on Violence, Culture, and Survival, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, the University of Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: A Question of Identity Chapter 2: The New World Disorder Chapter
3: Imaginary Kingdoms Chapter 4: The Field of Blackbirds: The Kosovo Myth
and The Mountain Wreath Chapter 5: Clashing Civilizations: A Paradigm Come
True? Chapter 6: The Paradise of Belonging Chapter 7: "Blasphemers of Our
Country's Inherited Faith" Chapter 8: The Byzantine Inheritance Chapter 9:
The Ottoman Inheritance Chapter 10: September 11, Islam, Christianity, and
Tolerance Chapter 11: Some Reflections on September 11, 2001