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This book argues that we are not at war with the religion of Islam, and non-Western cultures are by no means destined to oppose liberal political principles. But it also shows that Islamist fundamentalism is an expression of a broader phenomenon observable both inside and outside the West that testifies to the power of tradition and religion (whether Muslim or Christian) to resist (and even revolt against) modernity in search of an alternative...

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Debating or making speeches, American politicians invariably cite tenets of Christian faith - even as they unfailingly defend the liberal principles of tolerance and religious neutrality that underpin a pluralistic democracy. How these seemingly contradictory impulses can coexist are the pressing questions that Giorgi Areshidze grapples with in this exploration of the civic role of religion in American political life.

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