{"id":47938,"date":"2015-01-18T02:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T02:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/julian_mann-a_useful_guide_for_busy_pastors_about_islamism\/"},"modified":"2015-01-18T02:00:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T02:00:14","slug":"julian_mann-a_useful_guide_for_busy_pastors_about_islamism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47938","title":{"rendered":"Julian Mann&#8211;A useful guide for busy pastors about Islamism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For busy pastors who want to get better educated about Islamist extremism, Martin Amis&#8217;s 2008 book, The Second Plane, September 11: 2001-2007 (Jonathan Cape, 208 pages), is most helpful.<\/p>\n<p>It is a collection of 14 pieces, two short stories and 12 essays and reviews. Mr Amis, who describes himself as an agnostic, is a gifted teacher. He provides useful facts about the rise of Islamist extremism in the 20th century in the course of his stimulating and lively discourses.<\/p>\n<p>Terror and Boredom: The Dependent Mind, originally published in The Observer in 2006, is particularly useful for frontline clergy who want to be able to answer people&#8217;s questions about Islamism and the mentality underlying it. It cannot of course substitute for a pastor&#8217;s own thinking and theological reflection but it is a useful mental pump-primer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cranmercurate.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/01\/a-useful-guide-for-busy-pastors-about.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For busy pastors who want to get better educated about Islamist extremism, Martin Amis&#8217;s 2008 book, The Second Plane, September 11: 2001-2007 (Jonathan Cape, 208 pages), is most helpful. It is a collection of 14 pieces, two short stories and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47938\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,42,92,168,426,435,155,184,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-books","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-islam","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}