Beyond Fundamentalism pdf

Reza Aslan (persiano: رضا اصلان, 3 maggio 1972) è una studiosa iraniana-americana di sociologia della religione, scrittrice e conduttrice televisiva. Un convertito al cristianesimo evangelico dall'Islam sciita da giovane, Aslan alla fine tornò all'Islam ma continuò a scrivere sul cristianesimo. Ha scritto quattro libri sulla religione: No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth e God: A Storia umana.
Aslan ha lavorato per la televisione, inclusa una serie di documentari che esplora le religioni del mondo sulla CNN chiamata Believer, e ha lavorato come produttore esecutivo nella serie drammatica della HBO The Leftovers. Aslan è membro dell'American Academy of Religion e dell'International Qur'anic Studies Association. È professore di scrittura creativa all'Università della California, Riverside e membro del consiglio del National Iranian American Council (NIAC).

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Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization

The wars in the Middle East have become religious wars in which God is believed to be directly engaged on behalf of one side against the other. The hijackers who attacked America on September 11, 2001, thought they were fighting in the name of God. According to award-winning writer and scholar of religions Reza Aslan, the United States, by infusing the War on Terror with its own religiously polarizing rhetoric, is fighting a similar war—a war that can’t be won.
Beyond Fundamentalism is both an in-depth study of the ideology fueling al-Qa‘ida, the Taliban, and like-minded militants throughout the Muslim world and an exploration of religious violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. At a time when religion and politics increasingly share the same vocabulary and function in the same sphere, Aslan writes that we must strip the conflicts of our world of their religious connotations and address the earthly grievances that always lie at its root.
How do you win a religious war? By refusing to fight in one.
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Originally published as How to Win a Cosmic War
"A cosmic war transforms those who should be considered butchers and thugs into soldiers sanctioned by God the most depraved acts of destruction because it does not abide by human conceptions of morality. What use does the cosmic warrior have for such ethical concerns when he is simply a puppet in the hands of God?"