The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs: Fundamentalism and the Fear of Truth

The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs: Fundamentalism and the Fear of Truth

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-352

  Schimmel, Solomon ^a  

^a Hebrew College   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief; Bible; Christian fundamentalism; Faith; Fundamentalism; Irrationality; Jewish fundamentalism; Koran; Muslim fundamentalism; Orthodox judaism; Reason; Religious psychology; Revelation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859191786     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195188264.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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