Richard Rubenstein: 8 books
What Is Enlightenment?
Continuity or Rupture in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Political sociology has struggled with predicting the next turn of transformation in the MENA countries after the 2011 Uprisings. Arab activists did not articulate explicitly any modalities of their desired system, although their slogans ushered to a fully-democratic society. These unguided Uprisings...
When Jesus Became God
The Epic Fight over Christ's Divinity in the Last Days of Rome
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
“[A] panoramic view of early Christianity as it developed against the backdrop of the Roman Empire of the fourth century” (Publishers Weekly).
The story of Jesus is well known, as is the story of Christian persecutions during the Roman Empire. The history of fervent debate, civil strife,...
by Richard L. Rubenstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
This book examines the relationship between jihad and genocide, past and present. Richard L. Rubenstein takes a close look at the violent interpretations of jihad and how they have played out in the past hundred years, from the Armenian genocide through current threats to Israel. Rubenstein's unflinching...
Reasons to Kill
Why Americans Choose War
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
From the American Revolution to the end of World War II, the United
States spent nineteen years at war against other nations. But since1950,
the total is twenty-two years and counting. On four occasions, U.S.
presidents elected as "peace candidates" have gone on to lead the nation
into ferocious...
by Richard E. Rubenstein
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Richard Rubenstein writes of the holocaust, why it happened, why it happened when it did, and why it may happen again and again.
Aristotle's Children
How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2004
A true account of a turning point in medieval history that shaped the modern world, from “a superb storyteller” and the author of When Jesus Became God (Los Angeles Times).
Europe was in the long slumber of the Middle Ages, the Roman Empire was in tatters, and the Greek language was all but...
Why Study Talmud in the Twenty-First Century?
The Relevance of the Ancient Jewish Text to Our World
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
The Talmud is the repository of thousands of years of Jewish wisdom. It is a conglomerate of law, legend, and philosophy, a blend of unique logic and shrewd pragmatism, of history and science, of anecdotes and humor. Unfortunately, its sometimes complex subject matter often seems irrelevant in today's...
Resolving Structural Conflicts
How Violent Systems Can Be Transformed
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
This book analyses how certain types of social systems generate violent conflict and discusses how these systems can be transformed in order to create the conditions for positive peace.
Resolving Structural Conflicts addresses a key issue in the field of conflict studies: what to do about violent...