Jon Pahl: 3 books

Book cover of Empire of Sacrifice

Empire of Sacrifice

The Religious Origins of American Violence

by Jon Pahl
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010

It is widely recognized that American culture is both exceptionally religious and exceptionally violent. Americans participate in religious communities in high numbers, yet American citizens also own guns at rates far beyond those of citizens in other industrialized nations. Since9/11, United States...
Book cover of Fethullah Gulen

Fethullah Gulen

A Life of Hizmet

by Jon Pahl
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019

In this first critical biography of Fethullah Gulen in English, historian Jon Pahl takes us on a journey where we discover wisdom and controversy, from 1940's Turkey to the U.S. in the twenty-first century. Pahl tells the story of a pious Muslim boy from a tiny and remote Turkish village who on the...
Book cover of René Girard and Creative Reconciliation
by Cameron Thomson, Sandor Goodhart, Nadia Delicata
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014

The contribution of this book to the field of reconciliation is both theoretical and practical, recognizing that good theory guides effective practice and practice is the ground for compelling theory. Using a Girardian hermeneutic as a starting point, a new conceptual Gestalt emerges in these essays,...
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