(Free) Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents
♛ Ian Buruma ♛
| #1822470 in Books | 2010-02-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .59 x6.10 x8.76l,.65 | File Name: 0691134898 | 144 pages
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Worth the time and $|By William Steding|If we accept Harold Lasswell's definition of politics: "who gets what, when, how" and adopt it to religion - who believes what and why - Ian Buruma offers an adroit analysis of the inevitable tension and contradictions that result from the collision between the two with a nuanced understanding of temporal, geographic, and cultural variab|From Publishers Weekly|The place of organized religion in the public square is well-trammeled territory; in this brief volume, journalist and Bard College professor Buruma (Murder in Amsterdam) adds to the discussion with political and cultural analyses
For eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized evangelicals who often seemed intent on erasing the church-state divide. In Europe, the increasing number of radicalized Muslims is creating widespread fear that Islam is undermining Western-style liberal democracy. And even in polytheistic Asia, the development of democracy has been hindered in some countries, particularly China, by a long history in which ...
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