God's zeal : the battle of the three monotheisms
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God's zeal : the battle of the three monotheisms
Polity, c2009
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Gottes Eifer : vom Kampf der drei Monotheismen
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First published in German as: Gottes Eifer : vom Kampf der drei Monotheismen. Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp, 2007
Includes index
Contents of Works
- The premises
- The formations
- The battle fronts
- The campaigns
- The matrix
- The pharmaka
- The parables of the ring
- After-zeal
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The conflicts between the three great monotheistic religions Christianity, Judaism and Islam are shaping our world more than ever before.
In this important new book Peter Sloterdijk returns to the origins of monotheism in order to shed new light on the conflict of the faiths today. Following the polytheism of the ancient civilizations of the Egyptians, Hittites and Babylonians, Jewish monotheism was born as a theology of protest, as a religion of triumph within defeat. While the religion of the Jews remained limited to their own people, Christianity unfolded its message with proclamations of universal truth. Islam raised this universalism to a new level through a military and political mode of expansion.
Sloterdijk examines the forms of conflict that arise between the three monotheisms by analyzing the basic possibilities stemming from anti-Paganism, anti-Judaism, anti-Islamism and anti-Christianism. These possibilities were augmented by internal rifts: a defining influence within Judaism was a separatism with defensive aspects, in Christianity the project of expansion through mission, and in Islam the Holy War.
Table of Contents
Dedication page vii
1 The premises 1
2 The formations 19
3 The battle fronts 40
4 The campaigns 50
5 The matrix 82
6 The pharmaka 105
7 The parables of the ring 122
8 After-zeal 150
Index 161
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