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Beyond Fundamentalism
Reza Aslan
Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization
Random House Inc
April 2010
On Sale: April 6, 2010
256 pages
ISBN: 0812978307
EAN: 9780812978308
Hardcover (reprint)
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Non-Fiction
A cosmic war is a religious war. It is a battle not between
armies or nations, but between the forces of good and evil,
a war in which God is believed to be directly engaged on
behalf of one side against the other. The hijackers who
attacked the United States on September 11, 2001, thought
they were fighting a cosmic war. According to award-winning
writer and scholar of religions Reza Aslan, by infusing the
United States War on Terror with the same kind of
religiously polarizing rhetoric and Manichean worldview, is
also fighting a cosmic war–a war that can’t be won. How to
Win a Cosmic War is both an in-depth study of the ideology
fueling al-Qa‘ida, the Taliban, and like-minded militants
throughout the Muslim world, and an exploration of religious
violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Surveying the
global scene from Israel to Iraq and from New York to the
Netherlands, Aslan argues that religion is a stronger force
today than it has been in a century. At a time when religion
and politics are increasingly sharing the same vocabulary
and functioning in the same sphere, Aslan writes that we
must strip the conflicts of our world–in particular, the War
on Terror–of their religious connotations and address the
earthly grievances that always lie behind the cosmic
impulse. How do you win a cosmic war? By refusing to fight
in one.From the Hardcover edition.
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