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The tenacity of unreasonable beliefs : fundamentalism and the fear of truth / Solomon Schimmel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schimmel, Solomon.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religious fundamentalism--Psychology.
- Religious fundamentalism.
- Psychology, Religious.
- Faith and reason.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (293 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Modern scholarship in several disciplines makes it clear that the Bible and the Quran were authored by humans. Nevertheless fundamentalists persist in believing in the divine authorship of their sacred scriptures. In this book, Solomon Schimmel seeks to understand why these people insist on such beliefs and how they defend them.
- Contents:
- Why this book? : autobiographical reflections
- Faith, revelation, and reason
- Jewish Biblical fundamentalism
- Christian Biblical fundamentalism
- Muslim Koranic fundamentalism
- Acquiring and protecting unreasonable beliefs
- On "defundamentalizing fundamentalists.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-273) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-988493-5
- 0-19-996445-9
- 9786611851514
- 1-281-85151-5
- 0-19-972002-9
- OCLC:
- 298601494
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