Inside 9/11 traces the time line that led up to the deadly attacks and deconstructs the fateful day, tracking the movements of all four terrorist teams and patching together the ad hoc response of government.

Explores the political ambitions of the Christian right, discussing how their agenda gained momentum through alternative networks, schools, and publishers, and warns that another national crisis may enable the Christian right to seize political power.

A counter-terrorist unit hunts down the Preacher, a terrorist who radicalizes young Muslims into carrying out assassinations.

The book Jehovah Lives in Brooklyn: Jehovah's Witnesses as a Model of Fundamentalism describes some of the odd beliefs of this cult, and also gives a psychosocial overview of its place in society, its meaning, and its results. It discusses the effects of cult-psychology on otherwise well-adjusted minds, and shows why even intelligent people can be vulnerable. A brief outline of the book is as follows: Author's Preface: Alien Landscapes, Secret Societies...

Building on the trenchant cultural and religious analyses of evangelical Protestantism set forth in his first volume, Wells argues in God in the Wasteland that the church is now enfeebled because it has lost its sense of God's sovereignty and holiness. God, says Wells, has become weightless. He has lost the power to shape the church's character, outlook, and practice. By looking afresh at the way God's transcendence and immanence have been taken...

La intolerancia, asiento de fundamentalismos, recorre nuestro mundo, donde la marginación y el racismo potencian una cultura del miedo a la diferencia, de pavor por aquello que se percibe como distinto. Distinto es el otro, y el otro es un enemigo. Al pensar la democracia, la cultura occidental generó una ética y un conjunto de "reglas del tener razón": opinar, argumentar, disentir, apoyar, refutar, convencer, disuadir. Dicha cultura produjo también...

Westboro Baptist Church has earned an unforgettable reputation for their virulently anti-gay pickets. Westboro has even stooped to picketing funerals to spread their hateful message.Most people respond to this hate with more hate of their own, but through poetry, this book calls us to respond with understanding instead.This work strives to challenge common reactions and to stimulate new thoughtful dialogue. As Deepak Chopra stated, "you can not change...

Jon Krakauer's literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders, taking readers inside isolated American communities where some 40,000 Mormon Fundamentalists still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like...

This modern classic by the author of Knowing God provides a comprehensive statement of the doctrine of Scripture from an evangelical perspective. J. I. Packer explores the meaning of the word "fundamentalism" and offers a clear and well-reasoned argument for the authority of the Bible and its proper role in the Christian life.

"Sixteen-year-old Vivian Apple returns home after the alleged 'Rapture' to find her devout parents gone and two mysterious holes in the roof. Vivian never believed in the Rapture, or the uber powerful Church of America. Now that she has been left behind, Vivan's quest for the truth begins"--