Gershom Gorenberg's "The End of Days"

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This paper explains the relationship of the leftist versus the rightest dichotomy to the secular versus the spiritual views on conflicts over religion. The paper reviews religious scholar Gershom Gorenberg's book "The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount" in which he agrees moderately with the rightist view that religion's force is basically ambivalent. The paper concludes that to better understand the origins and ways to find solutions to major religious issues, like the Israel-Palestinian conflict, a more balanced understanding of religious (rightist) impulses and secular ideas is necessary. The paper end notes instead of a bibliography.

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"How the temple is to be rebuilt remains unclear to messianic Jews (who want to fulfill the prophecy and bring the first coming of the Jesus/the apocalypse). During the Israeli-Egyptian 6 Days War (1967) Israel conquered the old city of Jerusalem thereby taking into possession the third most important religious site of Islam and most notably the emerging symbol of a nationalist Palestinian state, the Temple Mount. This area is also where the prophet Muhammad (founder of the Muslim faith) ascended to heaven and met God. This will also be the location for the final judgment."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Gorenberg, Gershom, "The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount," Oxford University Press, NY, 2000.
• Vjekoslav Perica. "Religion in Society"
• In the Name of God" First Run/Icarus Films, 1992.

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