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Informationen zum Autor Christopher Catherwood is a historian, lecturer, and writer based in Cambridge, England. He wrote this book while a visiting scholar at Cambridge University's Centre of International Studies and a Rockefeller Resident Fellow at the Institute on Violence, Culture, and Survival, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, the University of Virginia. Klappentext This thoughtful book explores much of the background to the strife the globe faces today. In particular, Christopher Catherwood shows how religion and national pride, which are supposed to be positive forces, can become perverted ideologies that arouse hatred, slaughter, and war. Zusammenfassung This thoughtful book explores much of the background to the strife the globe faces today. In particular! Christopher Catherwood shows how religion and national pride! which are supposed to be positive forces! can become perverted ideologies that arouse hatred! slaughter! and war. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: A Question of IdentityChapter 2: The New World DisorderChapter 3: Imaginary KingdomsChapter 4: The Field of Blackbirds: The Kosovo Myth and The Mountain WreathChapter 5: Clashing Civilizations: A Paradigm Come True?Chapter 6: The Paradise of BelongingChapter 7: "Blasphemers of Our Country's Inherited Faith"Chapter 8: The Byzantine InheritanceChapter 9: The Ottoman InheritanceChapter 10: September 11, Islam, Christianity, and ToleranceChapter 11: Some Reflections on September 11, 2001
