A sweeping exploration of religion and the history of human violence—from the New York
Times bestselling author of The History of God•“Elegant and powerful.... Both erudite and …

The battle between religion and science, competing methods of knowing ourselves and our
world, has been raging for many centuries. Now scientists themselves are looking at …

Deprived of imagination, the political world we live in is, nonetheless, full of images. One
only has to think of the role of the media in our political life. If we compare the activity that we …

In this book, originally published in 2007, Chiara Bottici argues for a philosophical
understanding of political myth. Bottici demonstrates that myth is a process, one of …

From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great
Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal …

The mainstream quality media in the USA--unlike that of Europe--framed September 11
within the context of Islam, culture and civilisations. In other words, it explained the crisis by …

This article argues for the need to recover the concept of political myth in order to
understand the crucial phenomena of our epoch. By drawing on Blumenberg's philosophical …

Is religion inherently violent? If not, what provokes violence in the name of religion? Do we
mischaracterize religion by focusing too much on its violent side? In this intriguing, original …

This work delineates the impact of terrorism--and the American response--on the basic
structure of international relations, the dimming prospects for global reform and the tendency …

" While we have all seen and viscerally felt the damage bin Laden has unleashed on the
United States, most of us do not have a coherent understanding of what motivates him and …