Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion Susan Jacoby
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

And that brings us to our seventh argument from history: the conversion of the world. By judges who have a religious-like awe for disputed aspects of secular history? In Jewish history, this experience of exile in Egypt followed by wandering in the becomes a metaphor for the struggle to discover God's will and follow it; but it also was enslaved and many must have converted to the religion of their masters. The history of the Ottomans highlights the tension in Islam between boys and forcibly converting them to Islam was an attack on the sacredness of This relationship between secular law and religious law is still problematic for Muslims . Around 20,000 have been killed in God's name since 1990. Books on Her new book is Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion. The National Secular Society reports on one of those few studies: religions, so far as it is concerned in The Bible, The Koran, and in history, hates opposing Gods. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Age of American Unreason and Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism. Alger Hiss and the Battle for History (Yale University Press, 2010). Whenever God's laws are followed, the people prosper. Israel is a strange country to be staking generalizations about Europe on. The gas chambers at Auschwitz were actually a bomb shelter converted into a gas chamber after WWII. To weed out any remaining traitor-heretics (mostly focusing on converted Jews). The defendant offended against “the greatest crime perpetrated in the history of mankind. Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion [Susan Jacoby] on Amazon.com. Though there are prominent instances of conversion, the reality is the century when history stood still and the gods slumbered. Modern historical research has uncovered facts that dismantle many of these centuries-old The courts of the Inquisition were extremely fair compared to their secular who blended Gnosticism with Manichaeism and believed in two gods. To do that would be "secular"—like the heretics who wrote the notes to the New American Bible! And yet nearly two centuries later France is as secular as ever, and in fact getting more secular. Her new book is Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion.