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La guerra del fin del mundo
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Deep within the remote backlands of 19th century Brazil sits Canudos, a libertarians paradise. Home of prostitutes, bandits, and beggars, Canudos embodies the revolutionary spirit in its purest and most apocalyptic form. In one of his most brilliant and tragic novels, Mario Vargas Llosa creates an unforgettable tale of passion, idealism, adventure, and mans struggle to be free. It is an exhaustively documented account of a historical event and a fundamental book in 20th century literature. Description in Spanish: "A finales del siglo XX, en las tierras paupérrimas del noreste de Brasil, el chispazo de las arengas del Consejero, personaje mesiánico y enigmático, prenderá la insurrección de los desheredados. En circunstancias extremas como aquéllas, la consecución de la dignidad vital sólo podrá venir de la exaltación religiosa - el convencimiento fanático de la elección divina de los marginados del mundo- y del quebranto radical de las reglas que rigen el mundo de los poderosos. Así, grupos de miserables acudirán a la llamada de la revolución de Canudos, la cuidad donde se asentará esta comunidad de personajes que difícilmente desaparecerán de la imaginación del lector: el Beatito, el León de Natuba, María Quadrado.. Frente a todos ellos, una trama político- militar se articula para detener con toda su fuerza el movimiento que amenaza con expandirse."
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THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END!!!.......2003-05-28
This is perhaps Vargas Llosa's best novel and a must for all those well-meaning readers in the developed world who eagerly idealize Latin American revolutions without knowing anything about these countries.
The book is based on the true story of Antonio Vicente Mendes Maciel ("O Conselheiro"), a mad prophet of sorts -kind of a weird Christian ayatollah of the late XIX Century- who ignited, in the most remote corner of Brazil, a bloody uprising among the lowly against Money, Property, Progress, Law, Army, Republic and State, and everything else he found oppressive, sinful and evil.
Little by little, Vargas Llosa transforms this obscure anecdote into a monumental epic of Tolstoiesque proportions that not only hooks you on the plot but reveals the richly interwoven tapestry of Brazilian -and therefore Latin American- society; its illusions and delusions, its races and classes, its loves and hates, its fear of the modern and its contempt for the past, and the fanaticism that pervades both attitudes (to date).
I read this mammoth masterpiece during Christmass '94 at the midst of the Zapatista revolt in Chiapas, and it was sad to realize how little have we changed our societies. Our development always seems to engender inequality and our social struggles to defend backwardness and ignorance. Vargas Llosa is acutely aware of this, and he conveys it in his story splendidly, without preaching, without agendas, without aloofness and without letting you put down the book. Should you decide to read it, ask for a few days off!
THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END!.......2003-05-28
This is perhaps Vargas Llosa's best novel and a must for all those well-meaning readers in the developed world who eagerly idealize Latin American revolutions without knowing anything about these countries.
The book is based on the true story of Antonio Vicente Mendes Maciel ("O Conselheiro"), a mad prophet of sorts -kind of a weird Christian ayatollah of the late XIX Century- who ignited, in the most remote corner of Brazil, a bloody uprising among the lowly against Money, Property, Progress, Law, Army, Republic and State, and everything else he found oppressive, sinful and evil. In return, the Brazilian government reacted with indifference, disbelief, concern, anger, outrage and total annihilation.
Little by little, Vargas Llosa transforms this obscure anecdote into a monumental epic of Tolstoiesque proportions that not only hooks you on the plot but reveals the richly interwoven tapestry of Brazilian -and therefore Latin American- society; its illusions and delusions, its races and classes, its loves and hates, its fear of the modern and its contempt for the past, and the fanaticism that pervades both attitudes (to date).
I read this mammoth masterpiece during Christmass '94 at the midst of the Zapatista revolt in Chiapas, and it was sad to realize how little have we changed our societies. Our development always seems to engender inequality and our social struggles to defend backwardness and ignorance. Vargas Llosa is acutely aware of this, and he conveys it in his story splendidly, without preaching, without agendas, without aloofness and without letting you put down the book. Should you decide to read it, ask for a few days off!
Fanatismo Religioso o Intolerancia Humana?.......2002-12-17
A través de esta novela Mario Vargas Llosa nos regala una historia real cubierta de fantasias tan bien entretejidas que facilita una lectura fluída que nos hace sostener la última expiración en cada capítulo siguiente esperando que no sea el último.
El personaje principal es El Consejero, un asceta que recorre todos los pueblos predicando la palabra de Dios y sin haberlo planificado se encuentra dentro de una multitud que veía en él al Santo Salvador que los dirigiría en la lucha contra El Mal. El Mal estaba personificado por los Republicanos que, según los seguidores del Buen Consejero, no eran más que El Anticristo que había bajado a la tierra disfrazado de humanos para transformar el mundo: Instaurarían el matrimonio civil, encargarían los cementerios a los municipios (en la época monárquica estaba a cargo de la iglesia católica), y someterían al pueblo a un nuevo tipo de gobierno, la República.
Es así que se origina la rebelión. El Consejero y sus seguidores golpean a unos soldados republicanos y huyen a un lugar desolado, apropiándose de esos terrenos, llamádo CANUDOS. En aquel lugar alejado del mundo -y también de la imaginación humana- forman una sociedad diferente, en la cual nadie tenía propiedades y no existían autoridades. Era una sociedad donde todo era de todos.
Sin embargo, y en replesalia contra aquella rebelión inicial, el Estado Brasileño envia un pelotón de hombres bien apertrechados que son rápidamente reducidos por los pobladores de Canudos al grito de "mueran los perros republicanos". Fueron tres las comisiones enviadas a disolver a aquellos rebeldes que "atentaban contra la seguridad del Brasil". Una tras otra son repelidas hasta que frente a un contingente bastante mayor al de ellos ceden y permiten el ingreso del ejercito republicano a Canudos. "No dejaron piedra sobre piedra". Los soldados se encargaron de desaparecer aquel pueblo que se resistía a ser sometido a las peticiones de la sociedad alienada. Un mundo aparentemente irreal que parecería una increíble invención y que, sin embargo, existió en Brasil a fines del siglo XIX. Un pueblo cuya aparente perfección no fue tolerada por un mundo sometido a la infelicidad y, por lo tanto fue condenada al peor de los castigos: a la desaparición.
Considero, por ahora -a falta de leer algunos libros anteriores y venideros de Vargas Llosa- como la mejor obra de este escritor peruano que ya merece ganar el Premio Nobel.
Fanatismo Religioso o Intolerancia Humana?.......2002-12-17
A través de esta novela Mario Vargas Llosa nos regala una historia real cubierta de fantasias tan bien entretejidas que facilita una lectura fluída que nos hace sostener la última expiración en cada capítulo siguiente esperando que no sea el último.
El personaje principal es El Consejero, un asceta que recorre todos los pueblos predicando la palabra de Dios y sin haberlo planificado se encuentra dentro de una multitud que veía en él al Santo Salvador que los dirigiría en la lucha contra El Mal. El Mal estaba personificado por los Republicanos que, según los seguidores del Buen Consejero, no eran más que El Anticristo que había bajado a la tierra disfrazado de humanos para transformar el mundo: Instaurarían el matrimonio civil, encargarían los cementerios a los municipios (en la época monárquica estaba a cargo de la iglesia católica), y someterían al pueblo a un nuevo tipo de gobierno, la República.
Es así que se origina la rebelión. El Consejero y sus seguidores golpean a unos soldados republicanos y huyen a un lugar desolado, apropiándose de esos terrenos, llamádo CANUDOS. En aquel lugar alejado del mundo -y también de la imaginación humana- forman una sociedad diferente, en la cual nadie tenía propiedades y no existían autoridades. Era una sociedad donde todo era de todos.
Sin embargo, y en replesalia contra aquella rebelión inicial, el Estado Brasileño envia un pelotón de hombres bien apertrechados que son rápidamente reducidos por los pobladores de Canudos al grito de "mueran los perros republicanos". Fueron tres las comisiones enviadas a disolver a aquellos rebeldes que "atentaban contra la seguridad del Brasil". Una tras otra son repelidas hasta que frente a un contingente bastante mayor al de ellos ceden y permiten el ingreso del ejercito republicano a Canudos. "No dejaron piedra sobre piedra". Los soldados se encargaron de desaparecer aquel pueblo que se resistía a ser sometido a las peticiones de la sociedad alienada. Un mundo aparentemente irreal que parecería una increíble invención y que, sin embargo, existió en Brasil a fines del siglo XIX. Un pueblo cuya aparente perfección no fue tolerada por un mundo sometido a la infelicidad y, por lo tanto fue condenada al peor de los castigos: a la desaparición.
Considero, por ahora -a falta de leer algunos libros anteriores y venideros de Vargas Llosa- como la mejor obra de este escritor peruano que ya merece ganar el Premio Nobel.
Unos de los libros mejores que ya he leido y es pura verdad!.......2001-04-16
Cuando el gobierno de Brasil vino a temer las separatistas del campo al occidente, el ejercito los mató a todas...exceptamente para uno. Y este periodista llegó a escribir la materia que Mario Vargas Llosa usó para construir este torre de una novela. Entonces La guerra del fin del mundo, el libro cual resultó de la historia verdadera de los milenarios, es un ejemplo excelente del metodo de que un gobierno viene a matar a tantas personas sospechas. Las caracteristicas puestas a la mano de Llosa viven en colores claras y existen vidas especificas. ¡Nunca se va a olvidar la historia de lo que ocurrió en la selva de Brasil hace cien años!
This book is amazing! You will never forget the story of the milleniumists in Brasil. It is the truly tragic story of a religious people (or a cult, depending) who were genocidally destoryed by the government of Brazil. Vargas Llosa's writing is intriguing and, in some ways reminiscient of Tolstoy in his energetically fatalistic, yet compassionate portrait of this real-life horror. It's a pity that not more people in the U.S. have heard of this incident.
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Histoire et imaginaire dans le roman hispano-americain contemporain (America)
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La Guerra Del Fin Del Mundo
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No podras dejarlo hasta terminarlo.......2000-05-09
En este libro, Mario Vargas Llosa muestra un interesante relato ubicado al norte del Brasil donde un personaje pobre y mistico logra atraer una cantidad cada vez mayor de seguidores creyentes de mensajes religiosos de los que el dice se el portavoz. Luego el grupo se rebela contra las instituciones. Este es uno de los libros mas interesante de Mario Vargas Lloza. Se lo recomiendo a todo aquel que desea leer algo bueno y entretrenido
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LA Guerra Del Fin Del Mundo the War
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Such a good book.......2002-01-08
I think I read this book some five years ago and I still keep on buying it for my friends. A truly masterpiece that will stay with the readers for the remaining of their lives.
Such a good book.......2002-01-08
I think I read this book some five years ago and I still keep on buying it for my friends. A truly masterpiece that will stay with the readers for the remaining of their lives.
Apocaliptic saga of a fallen mesiah and his followers........1998-06-07
Though I admit to being partial to Mario Vargas Llosa, this particular book stands out as one of the best contemporary novels. The story is compelling and extremely well told. The plot is complex and entraitaining. The narrative is rich and flows easily. You will not find much or the author's characteristic humor in this tragic story. The ironic cruel nature of human behaviour and human institutions is present in each page. I hate it when author's of the stature of Vargas Llosa are said to be mainly interesting because they describe cultures that are foreign to us (mainly their own). This is not a book about Peru nor critisism of South American dictatiorships. This is a book about God and religion, about love and betrayal and about intollerance and human stupidity. If anyone thinks that the events and characters portrayed in the novel are "foreign" to us, maybe he should think twice and remember Wacco or Ruby Ride. This monumental work is not for the faint of heart. It is brutal in its depiction of pain and misery. It is a tragedy, and a sad one at that! I highly recommend this book, it is one of my all time favorites.
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The Novel and the Globalization of Culture
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Bringing together canonical European authors with authors from the Third World, this book analyzes the emergence of the modern global novel, and the way it mirrors the underlying process of cultural globalization. Through detailed readings of Stendhal, Hardy, Conrad, Achebe, and Vargas Llosa, this study reveals how the spread of Western modernity--materially and culturally--has been shadowed by the destruction of traditional societies. These novels focus on the individual tragedies of those who represent pre-modern ways of life; in the process, offering a corrective to Hegel's abstruse philosophy of history. From rural Victorian England to the Malay Archipelago, and from the Igbo heartland in Africa to the backlands of Brazil, a global narrative unfolds, one where the forces of modernization clash with the defenders of traditional society. Moses contributes to the ongoing debate on Alexandre Kojeve and the "end of history", while, at the same time, moving beyond sterile oppositions--canonical versus non-canonical works, formal literary criticism versus political/historical critique. With its new conceptualization of modernity and globalization, this book will interest the literary scholar, cultural critic, social scientist, and political theorist.
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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on April 13, 2003. The length of the article is 950 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Estados Unidos del mundo: el fin de la ONU. (Embajadas).(supuestos efectos internacionales de Guerra contra Irak )
Author: Gerardo Yong
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Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: April 13, 2003
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Volume: 49
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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on September 20, 1999. The length of the article is 1749 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Genocidio en la isla del fin del mundo.(Timor Oriental; guerra civil)(TT: Genocide on the island from the end of the world.)(TA: East Timor; civil war)(Columna)
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LA Guerra Del Fin Del Mundo
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must read.......2001-02-15
Every Vargas Llosa fan must read this incredible book. A definite page turner, you cant put it down. Definitely worth the money, and a must own for a collectionist.
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Review for 'Savor the Seduction'.......2007-01-08
She was like forbidden fruit...
That's what Grant Ashton thought of the beautiful single mom he had no business being involved with. For Anna Sheridan deserved a perfect life...one his family's history would never allow him to give her. As the eldest son of a wicked man, wasn't he destined to be forever alone?
Anna had never felt raising her late sister's illegitimate son was a sacrifice. Denying herself true pleasure was another story. She'd never felt anything as powerful as the need to be possessed by Grant...and she would not agree to let him walk away, sacrificing their happiness for the sake of his unforgiving birthright.
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Take four friends... Rianne: beautiful, wealthy and thoroughly spoilt, she has the world at her feet but is about to risk everything. Gabrielle: intelligent, loyal and always worrying about everyone else, now it's time for her to start looking after No.1. Nathalie: petite, pretty and with a shrewd eye for business, she uses her work to help her forget the one man she can't have. Charmaine: flirty and outrageous, she knows all about the good life. She just needs someone to pay for it... Then a chance encounter changes everything - and for Rianne and her friends, nothing is going to be the same again...
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A Wonderful Read.......2007-07-17
I loved this book. The characters were realistic, and I loved that they were so global. You even learn a bit about geography and history while being immersed in the characters' interesting and entertaining lives. I'm desperate to find another book that was as engaging. A must read!
A Sweeping Saga of the Lives of Four Friends.......2006-07-18
This is the best novel I have read for a long time. The book is an account of the lives of four friends, intertwining and diverging, and an honest telling of the trials that come with living. A theme that weaves throughout most of the book is that of the psychological crutches that remain with us beyond childhood, into our adult lives and relationships. Charmaine, Nathalie, Gabrielle and Rianne all struggle to develop beyond the narrow confines of their upbringing.
Of course, the most compelling theme is love, and its most fascinating development occurs between Rianne and Riitho. What an incredible story, set among the trappings of South African apartheid-era mindsets, though burgeoning in foreign locales like England and Paris. What a powerful man! The Riitho character is a trademark of Lokko, however, as I had first read her later book "Saffron Skies", where there is a similarly striking, strong, independent black man who attracts women like a magnet. That doesn't make him any less appealing!
"Sundowners" is a great read.
LOVED IT.......2006-03-04
LOVED IT, LOVED IT, LOVED IT, favourite book of the moment by far (fell in love with riitho in about 2 seconds :D). an amazing read with just the right amount of everything; innocence, love, friendship and my fav HISTORY, great for if u no nothing on the apartheid and u wanna learn a little history and not be bored out of your brains while doing so!!!
absolute favorite.......2005-10-17
This book will make you cry, laugh, scream, but most of all it leaves you begging for more even after its 800 or so pages. Its like a great traveling primetime show. By far my favorite book!
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Sundowner
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Ugh.......2006-05-22
I read this series out of respect for his Marvel Comics work (was big into comic books at the time). And Lord, I mean Lord, did I regret it. The dialogue especially left deep emotional scars.
Leaves you wanting for more........2004-02-14
I've reread this series more times than I can remember. Every time I wish Claremont would continue on with another book to it. Overall, I thought the third book of this series was the best. Well worth the time and effort to collect this series for your very own. Claremont out does himself.
Great! More Of The Same........2000-07-01
This is the third book in the series started in First Contact. Once again our hero takes to the stars, with world moving results. Dealing with the usual mix of treachery and alien agendas, this book is a great addition to the series. The only question is, when is the next book coming out and are we ever going to meet the hostile alien race that has so far remained in the backgound?
The Hal are back!.......1997-12-03
I loved the first two books of the series and, like many other readers, I want to know when the next one comes out! In this novel, the reader learns more about the Hal race that Nicole met. I enjoyed the descriptions and the imagery throughout the book.
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Sundowners
Jon Cleary
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The author, an Australian himself, conceived of THE SUNDOWNERS as "a novel in which the people weren't troubled by neuroses and didn't blame the world for their own shortcomings." With his great admiration for the self-reliant Australians, Cleary vividly and often poetically etches the saga of the Carmodys.
This is a sundowner family in the rural Australia of the 1920s, always on the move from job to job, heading toward the horizon.
"THE SUNDOWNERS has a nostalgic warmth that makes it out of the ordinary." (The New York Times)
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Ghost Town (Sundowners)
James Swallow
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James Swallow
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Life on Sundowner: New Beginning
Johnathan Stillwell
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Are you an American Gnostic?.......2007-07-31
Bloom's interpretation of "the American Religion" as modern Gnosticism was very helpful in making sense of the American religious landscape, whether Mormon, Adventist, Christian Scientist, Baptist, or Pentecostal. The religious American (for Bloom) is one who knows God in solitude. The soul is co-primeval with God. It is uncreated, and only truly knows itself when it "walks alone in the garden with Jesus." The solitude at the heart of American religion has an analog in the solitude of the vast American wilderness. The disappearance of time when "walking with Jesus" has an analog in the historical newness of the United States. (Never mind that there was a lot of Native American history before the white people showed up. Europeans did not know or identify with this history. They thought they were confronting the primeval as they moved westward. America was a lonely space without history, and thus the perfect backdrop for the American religionist's timeless, "gnostic" aloneness with God.)
I couldn't help but to compare Bloom's well-researched analysis of American religion with another assessment I recently read in Sam Harris's very popular _Letter to a Christian Nation_. Next to Bloom (who is not even a historian), Harris's ignorance of religious history is striking. The facile claim Harris makes about fundamentalism being the pure religion and everything "moderate" being a defection from pure Know-Nothingism (to use Bloom's terminology) is profoundly unhistorical. It is an extreme over-application of the relatively recent fundamentalist/moderate debate in the Southern Baptist Convention. Fundamentalism--like the word itself, which was coined in 1920--is a modern invention. In the larger scheme of things, religion has rarely been thoughtless. From the very beginning believers have tried to figure out and represent what they believe, which is the exact opposite of fundamentalism, where everything is already figured out and represented (and damn you if you think differently!). Furthermore, American fundamentalists (as Bloom argues rather persuasively) are NOT biblical literalists (as Harris claims), because they don't really read the Bible. Holy texts are NOT the sources of supreme evil in the world--those who stop putting any effort into understanding them are the real problem. Before the 20th century, as Bloom points out, no one ever treated the Bible like a dumb idol devoid of the problems of language. Harris is simply wrong about this. He is blithely unhistorical.
Harris wants to fix fundamentalism by destroying religion altogether, but this is like fixing a leaky faucet by ripping out the whole kitchen. It betrays a crude (or perhaps just sensationalist and opportunistic) understanding of the situation.
Reading Bloom is delightful. His arguments are littered with with brilliant little insights that produce a sense of astonishment. Not many writers can manage this. Brilliance comes at the cost of idiosyncrasy, but to harp on this point with Bloom would really be to miss the forest for the trees. Sometimes he is a little repetitive, and sometimes he moves too quickly, but none of this compromises the overall effectiveness or pleasure of the book.
It Must Be Good.......2007-05-06
The one-star review posted here by a person who is obviously a Mormon has convinced me that Bloom's book must be a masterpiece of insight and accurate criticism. I will get this book and read it immediately.
How to Understand The American Religion.......2006-11-04
Harold Bloom, the master of all things Shakespearean, has written the best critical study of American religion in modern times. Well, what else could we expect from the author of Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human?
Bloom has shown a long-standing interest in these things, from The Flight of Lucifer to The Book of J, so this is not suprising. What is surprising is how well his literary critical eye captures and evaluates American religion. I think he is correct on most fronts and I enjoyed the depth of his analysis.
I reviewed this book several years ago but since then have found its revelations to be increasingly accurate and timely, especially given the rise of the evangelicals to domination in the American political scene. It is frightening and discouraging to witness the on-going War on Culture, but it was amply predicted by Bloom. Remembering his exposition on these modern Know-Nothings has helped me anticipate and prepare for the horrors such as their incessant wars on culture, education, arts, and sciences which the rightwing have been waging.
There is nothing to fear except those who fearmong.
This book is essential reading for any who would understand the origins of the profound cultural discord in American society and the potential directions the country might take.
Is there such a thing as "religious criticism"?.......2005-02-13
In this book, Bloom claims that he has invented a new discipline by applying the tools of literary analysis/criticism to religion. His argument is that, because religions are the creation of human imagination, the types of critical tools that analyze and criticize other types of human imaginative output should produce value when used on religions as well.
Obviously, if one does not agree that religions are human imaginative creations, one will reject Bloom's entire effort. I myself believe that spiritual reality exists separate from our imaginations, but agree with Bloom that formalized religions are human imaginative creations. I therefore find Bloom's approach fruitful. (Truth in advertising: I hold a PhD in literature and am therefore comfortable with Bloom's tools and approaches in the first place.)
I know a fair amount about three of the church groups that Bloom discusses, and remain a member of one of them. My friends and academic colleagues in each of the three denominations (Southern Baptist, Seventh-day Adventist, and Latter-day Saints) are quick to point out many factual errors or sub-cultural misunderstandings in *The American Religion.* They miss the point. Blooms makes an excellent case for a basic imaginitive structure which in-forms those Christian groups which were "born" in the United States, and to understand the structure he describes is a great help in understanding American religious life. (For example, Bloom's book helped me understand much of what happened in the religious dynamics of the recent Bush-Kerry campaign.)
I have found the understanding I received from this book invaluable, both for my own personal introspection and for serious discussion with other academics interested in religion and American life. I therefore highly recommend this book to all those interested in thinking seriously about American Christianity--if, that is, they are willing to at least try out Bloom's approach.
The worst of the worst........2005-02-07
This book is nothing but a politically-driven, left-wing, anti-Christian polemic.
Books like this are a gathering place for atheists, agnostics, anti-Christians, anti-Mormons, and hate mongers of all types. This book is written by a left-wing Jewish professor who obviously despises Christianity in any form. Because of this fact, reviews on books like this become sounding boards for the ignorant who hate everything that does not agree with them, or that they do not understand. It's rather odd that the respect and tolerance that most Christians have for Jews is not returned by many of the very same Jews that suffer persecution themselves. If a Christian were to write a book about Jews and Judaism with the same snide remarks and disrespect for the Jewish religion that is contained in this book about Christians, the "politically correct" would have no end of nasty criticism.
What may be even worse is that Bloom represents what seems to be becoming the majority of professors of his ilk. Many college and university professors have complete freedom of speech in their classroms, as long as they agree with the student and the student agrees with them. What is contained in this book is representative of what can be found in the classrooms of our colleges and universities.
In the small section on Mormonism Bloom has managed to write the worst and most ignorant comments on the Church I have yet seen.
I know this is mostly a book Mormon-bashers, and those intolerant of any religion other than their own, are most likely to read, but possibly there is a sincere person who will read this and wants to know the truth from the members of a religion that Bloom apparently knows nothing about.
As the review in FAIR says, "Bloom habitually characterizes those who disagree with his politics as dangerous fanatics: so Bloom calls Baptists and Mormons a "dangerously strong coalition of American Religionists that now guarantee the continued ascendancy of the Reagan-Bush dynasty" (p. 269). More pernicious is Bloom's op-ed column in the New York Times; promoting the book, it updates the last few pages, identifying Mormons with a combination imperiling American liberties.
My review follows:
Only the ignorant can be impressed by this vituperative garbage. I suggest those with any doubt read the 12th Article of Faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints: The Articles of Faith - #12:
"We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law."
Or, perhaps it could be made clearer by quoting a former Church President, David O. McKay: "We warn our people in America of the constantly increasing threat against our inspired Constitution and our free institutions set up under it. The same political tenets and philosophies that have brought war and terror in other parts of the world are at work amongst us in America. The proponents thereof are seeking to undermine our own form of government and to set up instead one of the forms of dictatorship now flourishing in other lands............"
Maybe this quote will make it clearer: "......I established the Constitution of this land, by the hands of wise men whom I raised up unto this very purpose....." Doctrine and Covenants 101, Verse 80
And, from the Journal of Discourses, "....Joseph (Smith)....declared...that the time would come when the Constitution...would be in danger of an overthrow; and, said he, If the Constitution be saved at all it will be by the Elders of this Church." Orson Hyde, 1858. Journal of Discourses, Volume 6, Page 152
There is almost no group more threatening to the Constitution than college professors. A liberal group, at best, and probably more socialist/Marxist than liberal, as a group they support almost every left-wing politician in American politics. These are the people, and their ilk, which threaten the Constitution, and strive for power at every level of government, not Mormons. These are the people, as demonstrated in this last election, who are looking for the overthrow of a free America, as we know it. These are those that threaten every part of the Constitution they don't agree with, but use parts they agree with, like free speech, to burn the flag and condemn our present way of life. These are the anti-Americans who preach tolerance, but practice intolerance towards anything they don't agree with. And, or course, right in line with their bigotry, hatred, intolerance, and ignorance, these are the people who will mark "NO" this review didn't help them. Of course, it didn't; if you come to review a book that you know contains ammunition to hatefully shoot down beliefs other than your own, what would you say? Blind hate and intolerance are two big reasons for the holocaust. This book is an example of why that happened. If we really want no more holocausts, then maybe it would be a good idea not to write inflammatory, ignorant, and hateful books. But, that's a no-brainer isn't it? Well, of course it is, but then the book and the author are "no-brainers", too.
There is no more patriotic American than those among the members of the LDS Church. This book reads like a paranoid adolescent afraid of the dark. This author should be ashamed of his duplicity.
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