Religious question in the 21st century. Geopolitics and postmodern crisis

Georges Food is a philosopher, an economist, the author of many wonderful books dedicated to the history of Western Europe and the Middle East countries.

In this book, he addresses the analysis of the rise of religious sentiment in the last decades of the XX century and at the beginning of the century of the current one. It is today that today is the dominant factor of world politics, one of the key issues of building a modern society and is the most important thing - the most acute of the existing (along with the problems of the environment) of human problems in general and each country, of each society separately. Islamic terrorism, problems of social and cultural integration, religious intolerance and, finally, wars based on religious contradictions - all this reality of today, and only trying to see, understand the most complicated fabric of the relationship - philosophical, historical, political - we can hope to get out of a dead end which introduced modern civilization. After all, religion today is not only a banner of struggle, not only a moral landmark - but also a means actively used in the interests of a wide variety of groups, a pressure tool, a tool for achieving goals, sometimes too far from religion