A Necessary Engagement: Reinventing America’s Relations with the Muslim World

Abstract

Gentile’s analysis in God’s Democracy articulates this aforementioned moment as the world’s reaction to the move away from American inclusiveness towards a radical, destabilising shift towards political religion. With the previous eight years behind it, the new administration, far from the intoxication of social change that it engenders, must seek to correct this perilous pursuit of exclusivity and bring balance back to America’s civil religious democratic ideals. Engaging on not only an academic level but on a social and cultural one as well, the reader is palpably taken on an exploration watching one of the world’s strongest democracies alter, in eight short years, its egalitarian modus operandi for one of intolerance and a nearmiss historic transformation of irreversible proportions. To this end, Gentile offers a type of analytical warning that, if such a transformation could happen to American democracy, it can happen anywhere and to any country. In short, God’s Democracy is a contemporary peregrination through contemporary American political culture that is both perspicacious and provocative – Gentile does not disappoint.