books about: extremism

books about: extremism

books:

Extremism

Bondage of the Mind: How Old Testament Fundamentalism Shackles the Mind and Enslaves the Spirit

R. D. Gold

Aldus Books Inc, 2008

Highly recommended
The author quotes the leading arguments for literal interpretation of the Torah and then logically deconstructs them, using archeology and history as data points. His ongoing argument that many of the fundamentalist stands are immoral as well as illogical leads to the ...

The Confiscation of American Prosperity: From Right-Wing Extremism and Economic Ideology to the Next Great ...

Michael Perelman

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Confiscating American Prosperity: High Crimes and Economics
April 7, 2008 Reviewing The Confiscation of American Prosperity: From Right-Wing Extremism and Economic Ideology to the Next Great Depression, Michael Perelman, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 By Seth Sandronsky Michael Perelman, a professor of economics at California ...

The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism

Ron Suskind

Harper, 2008

The Personal Effects of the War on Terror
Loved this book. It really tells the personal side of the "War on Terror". It shows how it affects people from the President to trial lawyers trying to defend an "enemy combatant" at Guantanamo Bay. It also shows the differences culturally and communication wise ...

The Fundamentals of Extremism: The Christian Right in America

Kimberly Blaker, Edward M. Buckner, ...

New Boston Books, 2003

An important message for America at just the right time
An important warning of the political forces organizing to turn America into a Christian theocracy at the earliest possible opportunity. A specialist in legal psychiatry, John M. Suarez,M.D outlines the increased number of attacks on the First Amendment in "The Path ...

The Way of the World CD: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism

Ron Suskind

HarperAudio, 2008

The Way of The World
This book, "The Way of the World," is a multi-layered narrative about the forces at home and abroad fighting today's battles for hope and security. The book weaves together several story lines, juxtaposing the human dramas of cultural collision with the controversial ...

Weapons of Mass Persuasion: Strategic Communication to Combat Violent Extremism (Frontiers in Political ...

Peter Lang Publishing, 2008

On message
Corman, Trethewey and Goodall have assembled a first rate collection of nine short essays which examine the need for a US counterterrorism strategic communication policy. Unlike many edited volumes, the nine chapters (which include seven chapters in which one or more ...

Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State, from Christian Militias to al Qaeda (Comparative ...
Mark Juergensmeyer

University of California Press, 2008

Why has the turn of the twenty-first century been rocked by a new religious rebellion? From al Qaeda to Christian militias to insurgents in Iraq, a strident new religious activism has seized the imaginations of political rebels around the world. Building on his groundbreaking book, The New Cold War?: Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular ...

Pakistan's Drift Into Extremism: Allah, then Army, and America's War Terror

Hassan Abbas

M.E. Sharpe, 2004

Very relevant to what's happening today in South Asia/Pakistan
Very intriguing and bold work - exposes how religious bigots and fundamentalists have entrenched themselves in Pakistan. It doesn't spare anyone - Pakistan army and its intelligence, American foreign policy blunders, Indian intransigence and failure of Pakistan's ...

Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement

Michael Barkun

The University of North Carolina Press, 1996

Tour of one region in America's chaotic religious landscape
While I highly enjoyed this book and found it meticulously, yet engagingly, researched, I will try to refrain from repeating what other reviewers have already stated. What I would like to add, is that I was unexpectedly impressed with the tortuous connections Barkun ...

Londonistan

Melanie Phillips

Encounter Books, 2006

Eye opener for most Americans.
The cult of death called Islam is spreading like the plague across the globe and only because it is allowed by the myopic, historically ignorant, illogical, naive and morally rudderless Western civilization. This book attempts to wake up the dozing Westerners who are ...

Muslim Extremism in Egypt: The Prophet and Pharaoh, With a New Preface for 2003

Gilles Kepel

University of California Press, 2003

A clear and sensible description of the Muslim Brotherhood
This is without a doubt one of the best and most readable texts on the subject of the rise of Islamist movements in Egypt. It also works as a fitting sequel to Doanld Mitchell's groundbreaking volume - the only one of its kind ever translated into Arabic - on the ...

White Rage: Extreme Right and American Politics (Extremism & Democracy S.)
Martin Durham

Routledge, 2007

The United States is currently focused on the threat from Islamist terrorism but before the terrible events of 9/11, the worst terrorist atrocity on US soil was the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing which was carried out by home grown American extremists. The extreme right are still militant and dangerous in the US. White Rage is an excellent survey ...

Academic Freedom in the Wired World: Political Extremism, Corporate Power, and the University

Robert O'Neil

Harvard University Press, 2008

Less Than Meets the Eye
If you are unsure exactly what "academic freedom" means, this book will probably leave you more confused than ever. Even if you are an academic freedom wonk like me, the promised "wired world" revelations really comprise only one of the ten chapters, and, as might be ...

The Binding of Isaac, Religious Murders And Kabbalah: Seeds Of Jewish Extremism And Alienation?

Lippman Bodoff

Devora Publishing, 2005

A Very Readable Scholarly Work
Lippman Bodoff has succeeded in condensing a lifetime of scholarship and innovative thinking into a highly readable 463 pages of insights into current Jewish thought and practice. In seven chapters replete with extensive footnotes that evoke comparisons with the more ...