How To Win A Cosmic War: Confronting Radical Religion

A cosmic war is a religious war, a battle between the forces of good and evil in which God is believed to be directly engaged on behalf of one side against the other. How to Win a Cosmic War is both an in-depth study of the ideology fueling al Qaeda, the Taliban, and like-minded militants throughout the Muslim world, and an exploration of religious violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Award-winning writer and scholar of religions Reza Aslan surveys the global scene from London and Leeds to Lebanon, Israel to Iraq, and New York to the Netherlands. He argues that religion is a stronger force today than it has been in a century, and that the only way to counter extremism is to strip the conflicts of our world of their religious connotations, and address the earthly grievances that always lie behind the cosmic impulse.