The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age

by Martha C. Nussbaum

Book Overview

What impulse prompted some newspapers to attribute the murder of 77 Norwegians to Islamic extremists, until it became evident that a right-wing Norwegian terrorist was the perpetrator? Why did Switzerland, a country of four minarets, vote to ban those structures? How did a proposed Muslim cultural center in lower Manhattan ignite a fevered political debate across the United States? In "The New Religious Intolerance, " Martha C. Nussbaum surveys such...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674065905
• ISBN13: 9780674065901
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.4"