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The World Turned Upside Down
Melanie Phillips
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Paperback. As the West turns on its religious and cultural traditions, it is succumbing to the 'soft totalitarianism' of irrational, relativist ideals. This title explains that the basic cause of this explosion of human irrationality is the slow but steady marginalisation of religion. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM2; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 158 x 32. Weight in Grams: 714.
As the West turns on its religious and cultural traditions, it is succumbing to the 'soft totalitarianism' of irrational, relativist ideals. With the Islamists intent on returning the free world to the 7th century, it seems western civilization is no longer willing or able to defend modernity and rationalism. In "The World Turned Upside Down", Melanie Phillips explains that the basic cause of this explosion of human irrationality is the slow but steady marginalisation of religion. We tell ourselves that faith and reason are incompatible, but the opposite is the case. It was Christianity and the Hebrew Bible, Phillips asserts, ... Read more
As the West turns on its religious and cultural traditions, it is succumbing to the 'soft totalitarianism' of irrational, relativist ideals. With the Islamists intent on returning the free world to the 7th century, it seems western civilization is no longer willing or able to defend modernity and rationalism. In "The World Turned Upside Down", Melanie Phillips explains that the basic cause of this explosion of human irrationality is the slow but steady marginalisation of religion. We tell ourselves that faith and reason are incompatible, but the opposite is the case. It was Christianity and the Hebrew Bible, Phillips asserts, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Encounter Books,USA United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781594035746
SKU
V9781594035746
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About Melanie Phillips
Melanie Phillips is an award-winning columnist for the Daily Mail. Educated at Oxford, she won the Orwell Prize for journalism in 1996. She is the author of Londonistan, All Must Have Prizes, and other books. Her regular blog appears on the Spectator website.
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