Snow (review)

Snow
a novel, by Orhan Pamuk

As the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk knows, a novel can take its readers into the play of religion and secularism in a way that nonfiction “issue” books cannot.

Reviewed by Charles Strohmer

(First published in The Christian Century; Mar. 22, 2005.)

The Trouble with Islam (Review)

The Trouble with Islam: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith, by Irshad Manji (St. Martin’s Press, 2003; 230 pp)

Why I Am a Muslim: An American Odyssey, by Asma Gull Hasan (Harper Collins/Element, 2004; 174 pp)

“Muslim Women on Islamic Reform,” reviewed by Charles Strohmer

(This review first published in Sojourners, Oct., 2004.)

New Political Religions (Review)

The Pneumopathology of Modern Terrorism

New Political Religions, or An Analysis of Modern Terrorism, Barry Cooper (University of Missouri Press, 2004; 242 pp)

Of the many good books that have been released in recent years on the so-called war on terrorism, I’ve discovered helpful analyses ranging from technique to strategy to ideology to religion. Cooper’s insightful book on the pneumopathology of modern terrorism helped me to see even more clearly.

Ethical Realism (review)

Ethical Realism: A Vision for America’s Role in the World, Anatol Lieven & John Hulsman
(Pantheon Books/Random House, 200pp).

This review originally appeared in slightly shorter form in The Christian Century, March 20, 2007.