One God, Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

1. Why is maintaining the community so important to the monotheists?


2. What were the charges of the fatwaagainst Salman Rushdie?


3. How is discipline maintained in other religions?

Christie-Murphy, David. A History of Heresy. Oxford: Oxford Unversity Press,

1976.

Peters, F.E. Judaism,Christainity and Islam:The World and the Law and the

People of God. Volume II. New York: Princeton University Press, 1990.

Abou El Fadl, Khaled. Rebellion and Violence inIslamic Law. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Bromley, David G. The Politics of Religious Apostasy:The Role of Apostates

in the Transformation of Religious Movements. Greenwood Publishing

Group, Inc., 1998.

Hogan, Richard M. Dissent from the Creed: Heresies Past and Present.

Huntington: Our Sunday Visitor, Publishing Division, 2001.

Kamen, Henry. The Spanish Inquisition. London: Yale University Press, 1999.

1. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/inquisition1.html - an introduction to
   the inquisition from the Medieval Sourcebook.


2. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08026a.htm - The Catholic
   Encyclopedia’s article on Inquisition.


3. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05678a.htm - The Catholic
   Encyclopedia’s article on Excommunication.



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