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Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
ix, 305 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Looks at extremism and violence committed in the name of God, arguing that they are inspired by misreadings of the Bible by the Abrahamic faiths, and offers a reading of Genesis that calls believers to be a blessing to others, regardless of their faith.
Author
Publisher
Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Description
Parkland. Las Vegas. Dallas. Orlando. San Bernardino. Paris. Charleston. Sutherland Springs. Newtown. These cities are now known for the people who were shot and killed in them. With less than 5% of the world's population, the people of the US own nearly half the world's guns. America also holds the record for the most gun deaths--homicide, suicide, and accidental gun deaths--at around 90 a day and about 33,000 per year. Some people say it's a heart...
Author
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
512 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"From the renowned and best-selling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion's connection to violence. For the first time in American history, religious self-identification is on the decline. Some have cited a perception that began to grow after Sept 11: That faith in general is a source of aggression, intolerance and divisiveness--something bad for society. But how accurate is that view? And does it apply equally to all faiths?...
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