Why the Rest Hates the West: Understanding the Roots of Global Rage

Why the Rest Hates the West: Understanding the Roots of Global Rage

by Meic Pearse
Why the Rest Hates the West: Understanding the Roots of Global Rage

Why the Rest Hates the West: Understanding the Roots of Global Rage

by Meic Pearse

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Overview

"Why do they hate us so much?" Many in the U.S. are baffled at the hatred and anti-Western sentiment they see on the international news. Why are people around the world so resentful of Western cultural values and ideals? Historian Meic Pearse unpacks the deep divides between the West and the rest of the world. He shows how many of the underlying assumptions of Western civilization directly oppose and contradict the cultural and religious values of significant people groups. Those in the Third World, Pearse says, "have the sensation that everything they hold dear and sacred is being rolled over by an economic and cultural juggernaut that doesn't even know it's doing it . . . and wouldn't understand why what it's destroying is important or of value." Pearse's keen analysis offers insight into perspectives not often understood in the West, and provides a starting point for intercultural dialogue and rapprochement.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780830868841
Publisher: IVP
Publication date: 05/18/2011
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 188
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Meic Pearse, originally from Britain, now lives in Croatia and the United States, where he is professor of history at Houghton College in Houghton, New York. He studied history and English at Swansea, University of Wales, and management studies at the Polytechnic of Wales. He took his M.Phil. and D.Phil. in ecclesiastical history at Oxford University. For more than a decade, he was involved as part of a team establishing a new church in Swansea. He has also made pipe valves in a German factory, served as a tax collector in local government, taught business studies at a Jewish school, taught history and economics in a Quaker institution, and lectured in church history in Britain and the Balkans. Books he has written include Between Known Men and Visible Saints, The Great Restoration, Who's Feeding Whom? and We Must Stop Meeting Like This. He has articles published in Church History, Anabaptism Today, Third Way and other periodicals.


Meic Pearse, originally from Britain, now lives in Croatia and the United States, where he is professor of history at Houghton College in Houghton, New York. He studied history and English at Swansea, University of Wales, and management studies at the Polytechnic of Wales. He took his M.Phil. and D.Phil. in ecclesiastical history at Oxford University. For more than a decade, he was involved as part of a team establishing a new church in Swansea. He has also made pipe valves in a German factory, served as a tax collector in local government, taught business studies at a Jewish school, taught history and economics in a Quaker institution, and lectured in church history in Britain and the Balkans. Books he has written include Between Known Men and Visible Saints, The Great Restoration, Who's Feeding Whom? and We Must Stop Meeting Like This. He has articles published in Church History, Anabaptism Today, Third Way and other periodicals.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
1. Barbarian Juggernauts
2. On the Importance of Being Earnest
3. How to Be Sinless: Human Rights and the Death of Obligation
4. Killing the Past: Tradition, Progress and Unprogress
5. Impersonal States
6. Imagined Communities
7. Divided Love, Infantilized Culture
8. Observations in Passing?
Conclusion: The Renewed Relevance of a Religious--and Moral--Vision
Notes
Index

What People are Saying About This

Roger Scruton

"This book is a serious and stirring call to Christians to reaffirm the central position of their faith. In an age which mistakes nescience for open-mindedness and enforced nihilism for toleration, this call to know, to affirm and to witness deserves a wide audience."
Roger Scruton, author of The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat

Byron Borger

"Immensely rich insight, written nicely by a learned and penetrating thinker. This may be the best Christian reflection on the deeper questions around globalization, global culture wars and the great clash of civilizations I've yet seen. . . . If you've only got time for one book of this sort, pass by Chomsky and Perle. Skip narrow-minded ideologues like Michael Moore and Ann Coulter and read Meic Pearse. He is a thoughtful Christian who brings theological acumen and global sensitivities to his critique of modernity, and offers profound Christian insight as he unpacks the deep divides between the West and the rest."
Byron Borger, Hearts & Minds Bookstore, Dallastown, Pennsylvania

Philip Jenkins

"Meic Pearse specializes in asking difficult questions about the most significant issues facing us today--about religions, about politics, and about how cultures and societies come into conflict. . . . This is a challenging, provocative book, with a broad social and historical vision."
Philip Jenkins, Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies, Pennsylvania State University, author of The Next Christendom

Richard Chartres

"This is a passionate, unfashionable and important book, recommended reading for anybody who has begun to suspect that the Western economic and cultural project is unsustainable."
Richard Chartres, Bishop of London

Philip Yancey

"I know of no more urgent discussion in our day. . . . Could someone please get a copy to George W. Bush?"
Philip Yancey, author of Rumors of Another World

Myron S. Augsburger

"Meic Pearse has exposed our therapy culture in its failure to move us from self-absorption to the freedom of self-esteem found when we truly serve others. . . . This book is necessary reading for all who would be responsible leaders and informed Christians in the twenty-first century."

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