The Glory and the Power: The Fundamentalist Challenge to the Modern World

By Martin E. Marty

Book Overview

The Fundamentalist Challenge to the Modern World Photographs by Micah Marty "Something rare: a fair-minded assessment of religious fundamentalism. In this companion volume to a three-part PBS series, Marty and Appleby aim to dissipate the fog of ignorance that surrounds the average understanding of fundamentalism.. . . A useful guide to what is proving to be . . . a historical movement at least as important as Marxist-Leninism." -Kirkus Reviews

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807012173
• ISBN13: 9780807012178
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Aiming to understand the fanatics among us

These authors aim to understand. They look at real people across the world who are drawn to fundamentalist answers. Like the American mother trying to protect her daughter from the chaos of moral relativity, who decides "I think she is going to have less options thrown at her in a Christian school than if she was in a public school ... I would rather control her environment as much as possible while she is young ...". (p. 75) The book reviews the effects on families or communities of "infallible" solutions, which can get frightening. But of course, if we can't understand people's concerns, we can't really talk with them about finding better solutions.