The Battle for God
- ISBN-10
- 0679435972
- ISBN-13
- 9780679435976
- Series
- The Battle for God
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 442
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Author
- Karen Armstrong
Description
Reveals how the fundamentalist movements in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam were born out of a dread of modernity
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- 2014-01-30
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- 2001
- 442 pages
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