God-botherers and Other True-believers: Gandhi, Hitler, and the Religious RightBerghahn Books, 2008 M05 1 - 244 páginas When reason fails to guide us in our everyday lives, we turn to faith, to religion; we close our minds; we reject austere reasoning. This rejection, which is a faith-based social and intellectual malignancy, has two unfortunate consequences: it blocks the way to knowledge that might enhance the quality of life and it opens the way to charlatans who exploit the faith of others. Examining two unquestionable malignancies of “the Christian Right” in present-day politics in the United States and the “secular religion” of Hitler’s National Socialism, as well as the third, more complex case of Gandhi, the author asserts that we need religion, but we also need to make sure it does no harm. |
Contenido
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Chapter 1Faith Reason and Consequences | 15 |
Chapter 2Religion and Persuasion in Politics | 39 |
Part IIAntagonistic Religions | 69 |
Chapter 3Desert Marketplace and Forum | 71 |
Chapter 4The Need for Enemies | 116 |
Part IIIA Religion of Love | 147 |
Chapter 5Gandhi | 149 |
Chapter 6Gandhis Charisma | 160 |
Chapter 7Gandhis Religion and Political Reality | 178 |
Chpater 8The First Cause and the Last Word | 199 |
References | 217 |
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