After such bestsellers as «The Story of God» (Alpina non-fiction, 2014) and «Islam» (Eksmo, 2011), Karen Armstrong explores fundamentalism in three monotheistic religions — Christianity, Judaism and Islam — no less deeply and in detail.
The famous historian of religion, Englishwoman Karen Armstrong managed to work as a television and radio journalist. Perhaps that is why she is able to dress the most complex problems in a simple and fascinating form. After such bestsellers as «The Story of God» (Alpina non-fiction, 2014) and «Islam» (Eksmo, 2011), she explores fundamentalism in three monotheistic religions — Christianity, Judaism and Islam — no less deeply and in detail. If to many of us militant religious fanaticism seems to be a rollback into the dense archaism, then Karen insists that this is a completely modern phenomenon. In her opinion, fundamentalism became a natural response to the modern era with its cult of rationalism, when a huge hole formed in the place of God, as Sartre said. And at the same time, she emphasizes, the fury with which the “battle for God” is being waged stems from the deepest fear of a world that has lost its usual supports.
Alpina non-fiction, 502 p.