TY - BOOK AU - Schimmel,Solomon ED - Oxford University Press. TI - The tenacity of unreasonable beliefs: fundamentalism and the fear of truth AV - BL238 U1 - 200.904 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Religious fundamentalism KW - Psychology KW - Psychology, Religious KW - Faith and reason N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Electronic reproduction; Oxford; Oxford University Press; 2009; (Oxford Scholarship Online); Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Internet Explorer 6.0 (or higher) or Firefox 2.0 (or higher); Available as searchable text in HTML format; Access restricted to subscribing institutions N2 - Modern scholarship in several disciplines makes it clear that the Bible and the Quran were authored by humans. Nevertheless, fundamentalists persist in believing in the divine authorship of their sacred scriptures. In this book, Solomon Schimmel seeks to understand why these people insist on such beliefs and how they defend them UR - http://ezproxy.lib.gla.ac.uk/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195188264.001.0001 ER -