Nicolas Pelham
Autor(a) de Holy Lands: Reviving Pluralism in the Middle East
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The basis of the thesis is this: the Middle East has a long history of peaceful coexistence of a number of religions, which is most stable when governments in the region took a pluralistic approach -- one religion or another may have been more in favor than others in certain times or places, but those religions or sects weren't doing the ruling. When government fuses with religion, theocracies slide into extremism and radical fundamentalism of one narrow interpretation and set of rules.
It really recommitted me to the feeling that a separation of church and state may be the best idea the founders of this country ever (mostly) agreed on.
There is a zooming through some history of the region, a tour of a lot of the present-day conflicts, and some little hopeful glimpses of pluralistic communities being built in Israel right now. So it ended with more hire that I expected. I'm glad I got around to reading this.… (mais)