false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255713385m/6007953.jpg 6007953 4 A cosmic war is a religious war. It is a battle not between armies or nations, but between the forces of good and evil, a war in which God is believed to be directly engaged on behalf of one side against the other. <br><br>The hijackers who attacked the United States on September 11, 2001, thought they were fighting a cosmic war. According to award-winning writer and scholar of religions Reza Aslan, by infusing the United States War on Terror with the same kind of religiously polarizing rhetoric and Manichean worldview, is also fighting a cosmic war–a war that can’t be won. <br><br><b>How to Win a Cosmic War</b><i> </i>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. Surveying the global scene from Israel to Iraq and from New York to the Netherlands, Aslan argues that religion is a stronger force today than it has been in a century. At a time when religion and politics are increasingly sharing the same vocabulary and functioning in the same sphere, Aslan writes that we must strip the conflicts of our world–in particular, the War on Terror–of their religious connotations and address the earthly grievances that always lie behind the cosmic impulse. <br><br>How do you win a cosmic war? By refusing to fight in one. 6183099 21 4 2009 How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror total:91|5:38|4:34|3:16|2:2|1:1| 91 379 307 39 3 3 false false Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 14:19:59 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 14:20:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 11:33:47 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 11:58:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 08:21:51 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 08:30:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 29 16:26:07 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 08:06:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon May 18 19:15:17 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 19:39:08 -0700 2009 al-wala' wal-bara', which would ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 21:00:13 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 22:22:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 18:34:14 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 11:27:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 08:13:28 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 08:13:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 22:31:34 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 18:11:59 -0700 2009
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