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God-botherers and other true believers : Gandhi, Hitler, and the religious right / F. G. Bailey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bailey, F. G. (Frederick George)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and politics.
- Religious fundamentalism.
- Religious right--United States.
- Religious right.
- Christian conservatism--United States.
- Christian conservatism.
- National socialism.
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948.
- Gandhi.
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
- Hitler, Adolf.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (244 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- When reason fails to guide us in our everyday lives, we turn to faith, to religion; we close our minds; we reject austere reasoning. This rejection, which is a faith-based social and intellectual malignancy, has two unfortunate consequences: it blocks the way to knowledge that might enhance the quality of life and it opens the way to charlatans who exploit the faith of others. Examining two unquestionable malignancies of "the Christian Right" in present-day politics in the United States and the "secular religion" of Hitler's National Socialism, as well as the third, more complex case of Gandhi
- Contents:
- Faith and politics
- Antagonistic religions
- A religion of love.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-219) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612626555
- 9781282626553
- 1282626558
- 9780857450012
- 0857450018
- OCLC:
- 645100881
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