Competing Monotheisms

One hears a lot these days about a renaissance of religion, and much about religious fanatics, too. In his most recent essay, Gottes Eifer. Vom Kampf der drei Monotheismen (i.e. the zealous God: on the struggle of the three monotheisms), Peter Sloterdijk, a philosopher and cultural commentator, explores the questions about the sources of the strength of the belief in one God, and what effects it has on its adherents.... more