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Harvard Book Store Presents...
Random House
Price: $26.00
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REZA ASLAN
discusses
How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror
Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome best-selling author, religion scholar, and Middle East analyst for CBS News REZA ASLAN for a discussion of his new book, How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror.
How to Win a Cosmic War is both an in-depth study of the ideology fueling al-Qa‘ida, the Taliban, and like-minded militants throughout the Muslim world, and an exploration of religious violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Surveying the global scene from Israel to Iraq and from New York to the Netherlands, Aslan argues that religion is a stronger force today than it has been in a century. At a time when religion and politics are increasingly sharing the same vocabulary and functioning in the same sphere, Aslan writes that we must strip the conflicts of our world–in particular, the War on Terror–of their religious connotations and address the earthly grievances that always lie behind the cosmic impulse. "'Terror' is never going to show up with a pen to sign a peace treaty ending the 'War on Terror.' The use of that phrase has created a black hole into which serious talk about serious topics—including, by all means, Islam but also Christianity and Judaism--has disappeared. Reza Aslan's elegant, incisive book breaks the spell cast by 'the emperor's new talk' and signals that the conversation the world has been waiting for may at last be about to begin." —Jack Miles (God: A Biography)
"Reza Aslan's is an indispensable voice with an urgently needed message. His book reaches across a world chasm that too many regard as unbridgeable—with balance, eloquence, and rare wisdom." —James Carroll (Constantine's Sword) "A unique primer for pragmatic leaders whose patient enlightenment is the real antidote to terror." —Bernard Avishai (The Hebrew Republic)
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Thursday, April 23rd |
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7:00 PM |
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Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge |
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This event is free; no tickets are required |
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Born in Iran, Reza Aslan, an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of
religions, is a fellow at the University of Southern California's Center on Public
Diplomacy, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at University of California,
Riverside, and a Middle East Analyst for CBS News. He has degrees in Religion
from Santa Clara University, Harvard University, and the University of California,
Santa Barbara, as well as a Master's degree of Fine Arts from the University
of Iowa, where he was named the Truman Capote Fellow in Fiction. He is a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities,
and the Pacific Council on International Policy. He serves on the board of directors
for both the Ploughshares Fund and PEN USA. Aslan's first book is the New York
Times best-selling, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of
Islam, which has been translated into half a dozen languages, short-listed
for the Guardian First Book Award, and was nominated for a PEN USA award
for research non-fiction.
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