by Élie Barnavi · Flammarion · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782080690470
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«Les religions meurtrières» is Élie Barnavi's essay on religion and politics, published by Flammarion in paperback (144 pages, in French).
Élie Barnavi, historian and former Israeli ambassador to France, analyzes religiously based terrorism within the framework of political religion. The essay, organized in brief theses, explains why revolutionary fundamentalism today has more force in Islam than in other religious systems and proposes ways to combat it.
It belongs to Flammarion's Café Voltaire collection and won the Prix Aujourd'hui in 2007.
A popular work aimed at the European citizen seeking to understand religious terrorism and its challenge to today's democracies.
Élie Barnavi is an Israeli historian and diplomat, who was the Israeli ambassador to France between 2000 and 2002. Born in Bucharest he moved as a child to Tel Aviv, Israel. He authored some fifteen books on France and Europe in the turmoil of the Religious Wars and on the contemporary history of Israel and of the Jewish people. He published numerous studies in professional journals in Europe, the US and Canada, as well as political articles in the Israeli and European press.
