TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bailey,F.G.
TI  - God-Botherers and Other True-Believers: Gandhi, Hitler, and the Religious Right
SN  - 9780857450012 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BL65.P7 B35 2008 
U1  - 322.1 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Berghahn Books, Inc.
KW  - Gandhi,
KW  - Hitler, Adolf,
KW  - Religion
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Religion and politics
KW  - Religious fundamentalism
KW  - Religious right
KW  - United States
KW  - Christian conservatism
KW  - National socialism
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Title page-God-Botherers and Other True-Believers; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PArt I-Faith and Politics; Chapter 1-Faith, Reason and Consequences; Chapter 2-Religion and Persuasion in Politics; Part II-Antagonistic Religions; Chapter 3-Desert, Marketplace and Forum; Chapter 4-The Need for Enemies; Part III-A Religion of Love; Chapter 5-Gandhi; Chapter 6-Gandhi's Charisma; Chapter 7-Gandhi's Religion and Political Reality; Chpater 8-The First Cause and the Last Word; References; Index
N2  - When reason fails to guide us in our everyday lives, we turn to faith, to religion; we close our minds; we reject austere reasoning. This rejection, which is a faith-based social and intellectual malignancy, has two unfortunate consequences: it blocks the way to knowledge that might enhance the quality of life and it opens the way to charlatans who exploit the faith of others. Examining two unquestionable malignancies of "the Christian Right" in present-day politics in the United States and the "secular religion" of Hitler's National Socialism, as well as the third, more complex case of Gandhi
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