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Holy Terrors: Thinking about Religion after September 11 | 
 enlarge | Author: Bruce Lincoln
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 449223
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 185
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.5
ISBN: 0226481956
Dewey Decimal Number: 200
EAN: 9780226481951
ASIN: 0226481956
Publication Date: October 1, 2003
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It is tempting to view the perpetrators of the September 11 terrorist attacks as evil incarnate. But their motives, as Bruce Lincoln reveals in this insightful offering, were profoundly and intensely religious. What we need now, he argues, is greater clarity about what we take religion to be. With great rigor and incisiveness, Holy Terrors sorts through the details and the religious rhetoric of September 11—in the highjackers' instructions, George W. Bush's national address, Osama bin Laden's videotaped reply, and Pat Robertson's notorious interview with Jerry Falwell-and examines their implications for our understanding of religion and its interrelationships with politics and culture.
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 post-modern blather July 9, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I noticed Lincoln's book only because of the similarity of it's title to that of a biography of Andy Wharhol that I read some time ago. Sadly, the book is the perfect example of the contemporary academic practice of working backward from a socio-anthropological conclusion to a tendentious definition that can only lead the innocent reader to buy into the author's political prejudices. Readers wishing an objective analysis of the comparative social functionality of Islam and Christianity should read the Epilog to Anthony Pagden's Peoples and Empires.
 Required reading for the thoughtful American November 6, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Lincoln's work is an attempt to formulate a theory of religion. While his success on that front is open to criticism, he gives an impeccable presentation of the religious dimensions of the American/Arab/Christian/Muslim/politics debate. Anyone who wants to hone their understanding of 80% of front page news should read this. Besides it gives documented proof of why Falwell and Robertson should not be listened to...ever...about anything.
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