Beyond Fundamentalism pdf

礼萨·阿斯兰（波斯语：رضا اصلان，1972 年 5 月 3 日－）是伊朗裔美国宗教社会学学者、作家和电视主持人。 阿斯兰年轻时从什叶派伊斯兰教皈依福音派基督教，最终回归伊斯兰教，但继续撰写有关基督教的文章。 他写了四本关于宗教的书：没有上帝，只有上帝：伊斯兰教的起源、演变和未来，超越原教旨主义：面对全球化时代的宗教极端主义，狂热者：拿撒勒耶稣的生平和时代，以及上帝：A 人类历史。
Aslan 曾在电视台工作，包括在 CNN 上探索世界宗教的纪录片系列《信徒》，并担任 HBO 电视剧《剩菜》的执行制片人。 阿斯兰是美国宗教学会和国际古兰经研究协会的成员。 他是加州大学河滨分校的创意写作教授，也是全国伊朗裔美国人委员会 (NIAC) 的董事会成员。

Beyond Fundamentalism pdf 礼萨·阿斯兰

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?"