Ebook: Defenders of God : The Fundamentalist Revolt Against the Modern Age

"Defenders of God is a work of broad scholarship. Judicious, clear, fair-minded yet
passionate, it should be read not only by students of the three Abrahamic religions but
by all those concerned with the future of the modern world."
DR. FEDWA MALTI-DOUGLAS, director, Institute for the Study of Literature,
Religion, and Society in the Contemporary Middle East, University of Texas, Austin
"A work of accomplished scholarship on a significant topic. It is a benchmark in
its field."
--MARK JUERGENSMEYER, dean, School of Asian Studies, University of Hawaii

"Through authoritative scholarship, breadth of vision, and forceful analysis,
Lawrence shows fundamentalism to be far more than a marginal movement of fanat-
ics; it is a revelation of profound dilemmas created by modernity. This is the best
available study of fundamentalism as a world phenomenon."
JAMES L. PEACOCK, Kenan Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina

"The reader will find insights about Ayatollahs, Israeli settlers, television evangelists,
and a host of other topics. This is an important book."
NINIAN SMART, J. F. Rowny Professor of Comparative Religions, University of
California, Santa Barbara
"Drawing on various fieldshistory of religion, anthropology, history of science,
philosophy Lawrence has written an impressive work of definition; he has redefined
fundamentalism by interrelating what have been up till now largely isolated
approaches."
COLIN W. WILLIAMS, president emeritus, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies

"Building on Marshall Berman's distinction between 'modern' and 'modernist,'
[Lawrence] argues that religious fundamentalists do not reject the contemporary
world but are rather intent on reshaping it according to 'scripture,' offering counter-
texts to the modernist vision of our world. This concept of fundamentalism as a
specifically twentieth century ideology has far-reaching applications outside of re-
ligious studies, helping one to identify other types of contemporary fundamen-
talism intellectual and political, for instanceand to relate them to one another."
CHARLES HAMM, Dartmouth College