Why the Rest Hates the West
Subtitle: Understanding the Roots of Global Rage
Publisher: IVP Books, an imprint of InterVarsity Press
Published: June 2004
Place of publication: Downers Grove, IL
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780830832026
Subjects: Religion, Politics & State; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Ethnic Studies - General; Religion; Sociology of Religion; International Relations - General; East and West; Christian Theology - Anthropology; Political Ideologies - General; Christianity and culture; Christianity - Theology - Anthropology
First sentence: It was 1983, and the Western powers-or an assortment of them-had finally taken it upon themselves to intervene in Lebanon's long-running civil war.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Barbarian juggernauts; title: On the importance of being earnest; title: How to be sinless : human rights and the death of obligations; title: Killing the past : tradition, progress, and unprogress; title: Impersonal states; title: Imagined communities; title: Divided lives, infantilized culture; title: Observations in passing?; title: Conclusion : The renewed relevance of a religious and moral vision