John W. Kiser books in order
John Kiser’s books have a contrarian flavor while exploring the role of faith in enduring life's tribulations.
Non Series
- Commander of the Faithful: The Life and Times of Emir Abd el-Kader (2008)
- The Monks of Tibhirine: Faith, Love, and Terror in Algeria (2002)
- Religion, Terror, and Error: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Challenge of Spiritual Engagement (2011)
- Stefan Zweig: Death of a modern man (1994)
- Communist Entrepreneurs: Unknown Innovators in the Global Economy (1989)
Detailed book overview
Non Series
Commander of the Faithful: A Story of True Jihad (2008) is the remarkable saga of a 19th century Arab scholar-warrior-saint whose faith and moral courage made him a hero throughout the world.
First Release: 2008
ISBN: 978-0982324660
Publisher: Monkfish Book Publishing
Monks of Tibhirine: Faith Love and Terror in Algeria (2002) highlights the harmony between Muslim and Christians at a time when people in the West were demonizing Islam as the new communist threat.
First Release: 2002
ISBN: 978-0312302948
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
This book asserts that the solution to the jihadists challenge, and other religious imperatives for that matter, is to come up with a longer-term strategy of cultural engagement, supported by an extensive understanding of how others view the world—and what they consider to be of significance to them.
Three important tasks, extensively explained in the book, are needed in order to achieve this:
Focus on the causal factors that form the basis of religious extremism.
A successor to the rational-actor model of decision-making that has heretofore excluded "irrational" factors like religion.
New paradigm for U.S. leadership in preparation of tomorrow's multipolar world.
The book has been co-written with Doug Johnston.
First Release: 2011
ISBN: 978-0313391453
Publisher: Praeger
Stefan Zweig: Death of a Modern Man (french publication - Mort d'un Homme Moderne; University of Toulouse, 1995). One of the 20th century's most prolific writers, a secular humanist who lost his connection with his faith community.
First Release: 1994
Ebook: B0006QWWZO
Publisher: Appleton Press
Communist Entrepreneurs: Unknown Innovators in the Global Economy (1988) came at a time when many believed that the communist world was technologically incompetent or unlikely to sell 'high technology" to the West.
First Release: 1989
Ebook: B000JWBSPU
Publisher: Franklin Watts