IN THE NAME OF GOD: A HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN AMD MUSLIM INTOLERANCE
Book ID/图书代码： 00970019C00008
English Summary/英文概要： Christianity is tolerant, Islam is not. Islam is an inherently violent, ossified religion which can never come to terms with the Enlightenment. How right or wrong are these assumptions? In this groundbreaking new book, Selina O’Grady asks how and why our societies came to be as tolerant or intolerant as they are? Whether tolerance can be expected to heal today’s festering wound between Islam and the post-Christian West? Or whether something deeper than tolerance is needed.
Told through contemporary chronicles, stories and poems, Selina O’Grady takes the reader through the intertwined histories of the Muslim, Christian and Jewish persecutors and persecuted. From Umar, the seventh century Islamic caliph who laid down the rules for the treatment of religious minorities in what was becoming the greatest empire the world has ever known, to Magna Carta John who seriously considered converting to Islam; and from al-Wahaabi, whose own brother thought he was illiterate and fanatical, but who created the religious-military alliance with the house of Saud that still survives today, to Europe’s bloody Thirty Years war that wearied Europe of murderous inter-Christian violence but probably killed God in the process.
This book is an essential guide to understanding Islam and the West today and the role of religion in the modern world.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 基督教具有包容性，伊斯兰教则不然。伊斯兰是一个骨子里暴力、僵化的宗教，无法接受启蒙运动。这样的论断到底是对是错？在这部突破性的新作品中，作者提出了一个问题，我们的社会是如何变得包容或不包容的？其中的原因又是什么？包容是否能够弥合伊斯兰和后基督教西方之间今天日益恶化的创伤？又或者其实需要比包容更深层次的东西。本书通过当代编年史、故事和诗歌，带领读者了解穆斯林、基督教和犹太教的迫害者和被迫害者之间错综复杂的历史。本书对于理解伊斯兰和今日的西方世界以及宗教在当代世界中所扮演的角色具有十分重要的意义。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：这是一部非常重要，极具启发性的作品，清晰、严密、全面，提出了我们这个时代的一个关键问题：在一个以各种方式，尤其是宗教，被划分的世界中，人们将如何找到共同生活的方式？作者通过对历史上包容和不包容的探讨，并分析了包容这个概念本身，甚至提出了这样一个问题：包容是否真的是一个正确的概念？如果不是，那又是什么呢？——A. C. Grayling
This is a very important and highly illuminating book. Lucid, incisive and comprehensive, it raises one of the key questions of our time: in a world divided in so many ways, and most especially by religion, how are its peoples to find a way to live together? Through an examination of the history of tolerance and intolerance, and an analysis of the concept of tolerance itself, O’Grady asks whether ’tolerance’ is even the right concept to use - and asks: if it is not, what is? Source: A. C. Grayling
About the Author/作者介绍： Selina O’Grady，BBC 1道德纪录片“事件核心”系列，BBC 4的访谈节目“天黑之后”以及Radio 4的历史系列“利维坦”的制片人，著有《人类创造上帝》，并为《卫报》《星期日邮报》《文学评论》等撰稿。Selina O’Grady was a producer of BBC1’s moral documentary series Heart of the Matter, presented by Joan Bakewell, Channel 4’s live chat show After Dark, and Radio 4’s history series Leviathan. She is the author of And Man Created God and has written for the Guardian, Mail on Sunday, Literary Review and The Oldie.
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