Sacred and Profane: Religious Studies 224,

Politicized Religion

Winter, 2007

Roger Friedland

Department of Religious Studies

Thursdays 2-5

 

 

Giovanna Borradori, ed. Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues With Juergen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, University of Chicago Press, 2004,  0226066665

 

Susan Friend Harding, The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics, Princeton, 2000 0-691-08958-2

 

Kevin Phillips, American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century,Viking, 067003486X

 

Efraim Karsh, Islamic Imperialism: A History, Yale University Press, 0300122632

 

Fawaz A. Gerges, Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy, Harcourt, 015101213X

 

Fawaz A. Gerges, The Far Enemy: Why Islam Went Global, 2005, Cambridge University Press, 0521791405

 

Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Knopf, 2006,
037541486X

Gilles Kepel, The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West, Belknap, 2006,  067401992X

 

Olivier Roy, Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Umma,  Columbia University Press, 2006, 0231134991

 

Alev Cinar, Modernity, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey: Bodies, Places, and Time,  University of Minnesota Press, 2005, 081664411X

 

Orhan Pamuk, Snow, Vintage, 0375706860