Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents
Ian Buruma broaches the biggest themes in contemporary world politics in this book: what are the relations, actual and possible, between religion and democracy in a globalized world? In setting out his thoughts, Buruma marshals pungent quotation after pungent quotation from Spinoza, Tocqueville,...
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Ian Buruma broaches the biggest themes in contemporary world politics in this book: what are the relations, actual and possible, between religion and democracy in a globalized world? In setting out his thoughts, Buruma marshals pungent quotation after pungent quotation from Spinoza, Tocqueville, and Voltaire—not to mention Jefferson, Locke, and Hume; classic Chinese and Japanese texts; and a wide range of modern commentators, politicians, activists, and agitators.—Andrew Barshay, University of California, Berkeley
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780691134895 (0691134898)
Publish date: February 1st 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
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