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005			20121112125532.0
008			090929s2010 nyu b 001 0 eng
010			_a2009040614
020			_a9781594033759 (hc : alk. paper)
020			_a1594033757 (hc : alk. paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)435419419
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049			_aEXNW
050	0	0	_aBL 65 .S8 _bP45 2010
082	0	0	_a201/.72 _222
100	1		_aPhillips, Melanie, _d1951- _929041
245	1	4	_aThe world turned upside down : _bthe global battle over god, truth, and power / _cMelanie Phillips.
250			_a1st American ed.
260			_aNew York : _bEncounter Books, _c2010.
300			_axiv, 486 p. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aCults and conspiracies from Diana to Obama -- The myth of environmental Armageddon -- The Iraq War -- The misrepresentation of Israel -- Scientific triumphalism -- The secular inquisition -- The Middle East witch-hunt -- The jihad against Western freedom -- Islamic Jew-hatred -- Western Jew-hatred -- The red-black-green-Islamic axis -- The quest for redemption -- How enlightenment unraveled -- The attack on Western civilization -- Reason and the Bible -- Why Britain is in the forefront -- The revival of Christian Jew-hatred -- The disenchantment of reason.
520			_aIn what we tell ourselves is an age of reason, we are behaving increasingly irrationally. An astonishing number of people subscribe to celebrity-endorsed cults, Mayan Armageddon prophecies, scientism, and other varieties of New Age, anti-enlightenment philosophies. Millions more advance popular conspiracy theories. Here, Melanie Phillips explains that the basic cause of this explosion of irrationality is the slow but steady marginalization of religion. We tell ourselves that faith and reason are incompatible, but the opposite is the case. It was Christianity and the Hebrew Bible, Phillips asserts, that gave us our concepts of reason, progress, and an orderly world on which science and modernity are based. Without its religious traditions, the West has drifted into mass derangement where truth and lies, right and wrong, victim and aggressor are all turned upside down. Worst of all, asserts Phillips, this abandonment of rationality leaves the West vulnerable to legitimate threats.--From publisher description.
650		0	_aReligion and state. _929042
650		0	_aReligion and politics. _929043
942			_2lcc _cBOOK _hBL 65 .S8 _iP45 2010
999			_c8450 _d8450