Chapter 1: A Question of Identity
Chapter 2: The New World Disorder
Chapter 3: Imaginary Kingdoms
Chapter 4: The Field of Blackbirds: The Kosovo Myth and The
Mountain Wreath
Chapter 5: Clashing Civilizations: A Paradigm Come True?
Chapter 6: The Paradise of Belonging
Chapter 7: "Blasphemers of Our Country's Inherited Faith"
Chapter 8: The Byzantine Inheritance
Chapter 9: The Ottoman Inheritance
Chapter 10: September 11, Islam, Christianity, and Tolerance
Chapter 11: Some Reflections on September 11, 2001
Christopher Catherwood is a historian, lecturer, and writer based in Cambridge. He wrote this book while a visiting scholar at both Cambridge University's Centre of International Studies and at the University of Richmond. He is currently a Rockefeller Resident Fellow at the Institute on Violence, Culture and Survival, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, the University of Virginia.
Catherwood's book is a good source for coming to grips with violent
religion and its various causes. Catherwood's book is also shorter
and easier to read than most of those on this topic.
Catherwood helps us navigate the seas of meaning that make up
identity politics and understand the dynamics that create the
ersatz religions of Hitler, Stalin, and now Osama bin Laden. Even
those who disagree with Catherwood's answers will appreciate the
way he asks the questions.
*E. J. Dionne Jr., author of Why Americans Hate Politics and They
Only Look Dead*
The events of September 11th and afterward have confirmed in many
minds that a clash of civilizations is in process. It will be a
dangerous and complicated world for all of us living in the
twenty-first century. That is why those who speak for the dialogue
of civilizations assume extraordinary significance. Why the Nations
Rage is an excellent example of the dialogue of civilizations. It
is an intelligent, scholarly, and yet humane analysis of the world
we are living in. I strongly recommend it to all those interested
in the major issues that have been thrust upon us after September
11th.
*Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies,
American University*
Wrestling with problems of religious nationalism and ethnic
conflict, we need the perspective that only history can provide.
Christopher Catherwood provides just such insight in this crisp and
thoughtful study. He gives us an admirably accessible guide, one
that many will read with profit, as I have done. It could not be
more timely.
*A. E. Dick Howard, University of Virginia*
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