Includes bibliographical references (p. 649-667) and index.
Contents:
Defining the terms -- What do we mean by "religion" and "Western civilization"? -- Religions of the West -- Judaism -- Christianity : what it is and how it defines Western civilization -- Islam : what it is and how it has interacted with Western civilization -- Religion, politics, culture, law, and society -- Judaism -- Christianity -- Islam -- Philosophy : Averroes, Maimonides, and Aquinas -- Mysticism as a meeting ground : seeing the unseen -- Historic encounters -- Latin Christianity, the crusades, and the Islamic response -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in Spain from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries -- Christianity and Islam in the Balkans from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries -- Zionism, imperialism, and nationalism -- Zionism -- Christian imperialism -- Political Islam -- Modernity and religion in the West : negotiating change -- The modernization of Christianity -- The modernization of Judaism -- The modernization of Islam -- Religion and western civilization in the twenty-first century -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in their contemporary encounters -- Judaism addresses Christianity -- Christianity meets other religions -- Islam and Pluralism -- Timeline.
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