Promise and Peril

"Promise and Peril delivers current analyses of the major religious conflicts in the world, including eye-opening assessments by leading academics and journalists of hot-button issues such as fundamentalism, the Israeli/Palestine conflict, and the hostility between Pakistan and India. This essential volume also turns its attention to religious threats such as the new Japanese religion Aum Shinrikyo, which in 1995 unleashed the nerve gas sarin in a crowded Tokyo subway."--BOOK JACKET.