Reza Aslan

REZA ASLAN, award-winning author and scholar of religions, speaks about How to Win a Cosmic War, his book arguing that conflicts in the world--including America's War on Terror--should be stripped of their religious connotations.

The professor and a senior fellow at the Orfalae Center for Global and International Studies at U.C. Santa Barbara, discusses and signs his book. 202-364-1919.

Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome best-selling author, religion scholar, and Middle East analyst for CBS News REZA ASLAN for a discussion of his new book, How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror. How to Win a Cosmic War is both an in-depth study of the ideology ... (more)fueling al-Qa‘ida, the Taliban, and like-minded militants throughout the Muslim world, and an exploration of religious violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Surveying the global scene from Israel to Iraq and from New York to the Netherlands, Aslan argues that religion is a stronger force today than it has been in a century. At a time when religion and politics are increasingly sharing the same vocabulary and functioning in the same sphere, Aslan writes that we must strip the conflicts of our world–in particular, the War on Terror–of their religious connotations and address the earthly grievances that always lie behind the cosmic impulse.