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DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Kirsch, author of The Grand Inquisitor's Manual: A History of 
 Terror in the Name of God, shows how the medieval Inquisition invented and 
 perfected the use of terror as a weapon against individuality and 
 diversity-and he explores how "the inquisitorial toolbox" has been 
 repurposed by authoritarians over the last eight hundred years, ranging 
 from Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia to the Hollywood blacklist and the 
 war on terror.\n\nThe friar-inquisitors relied on legal fictions, 
 conspiracy theories and religious true belief to justify the persecution of 
 marginalized men, women and children, and their fingerprints can be 
 detected in our language, culture, and habits of thought. Just as the 
 "ordeal by water" of the High Middle Ages is nowadays called 
 "waterboarding," the real history of the Inquisition continues to caution 
 us against taking our liberties too lightly.\n\nJonathan Kirsch is the 
 author of twelve books, including the national bestseller, The Harlot by 
 the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales of the Bible, and his most recent 
 work, the Los Angeles Times bestseller, A History of the End of the World. 
 Kirsch is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and a three-time 
 past president of PEN Center USA West. He lives in Los Angeles.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/28/18623668.php
SUMMARY:The Grand Inquisitor's Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God
LOCATION:CIIS Main Campus\n1453 Mission Street\nSan Francisco, CA 
 94103\n415-575-6175\nhttp://www.ciis.edu/publicprograms
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/28/18623668.php
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