Beyond Fundamentalism
Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization
Extremism recast as a global habit of mind rather than an Islamic problem: what happens when politics gets rewritten as a cosmic war.
Written in the years after 9/11, this is Aslan’s account of religious extremism as a global phenomenon rather than an Islamic one. He frames jihadism, Christian militancy and religious Zionism as varieties of the same cosmic-war mentality, in which earthly political grievances get recast as a battle between good and evil that admits no compromise. His prescription is to refuse those terms and treat the underlying conflicts as the negotiable political disputes they actually are.
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