Charles Kimball

Charles Kimball, a Baptist minister, is professor of comparative religion at Wake Forest University. He is the author of four books on Islam, the Middle East and Christian-Muslim relations.

Articles by Charles Kimball

Features

Reading Islam

An extended teachable moment
May 17, 2005 by Charles Kimball
Prior to September 11, 2001, a substantial majority in the United States approached Islam with a strange kind of detailed ignorance. For many Americans the words Islam and Muslims evoked disjointed images of violence, religious fanaticism, rejection of the modern world, mistreated women, and praying men bowing in the direction of Mecca.
Books

Seduced by war

May 31, 2003 by Charles Kimball

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning.
By Chris Hedges. Public Affairs, 211 pp., $23.00; paperback, $12.95.

Chris Hedges's penetrating insights into war are as current as the daily headlines. The images of the war in Iraq and the proclamations of political, military and religious leaders vividly etched in our minds make Hedges's analyses all the more compelling.

Cover Story

Roots of rancor

Examining Islamic militancy

Oct 24, 2001 by Charles Kimball

Commentary since September 11 has produced a cognitive dissonance among Americans about Islam, the world’s second largest religious tradition. On the one hand, selected Muslim leaders declare that “Islam is a religion of peace” and President Bush asserts repeatedly that the U.S.

Books

Documenting diversity

Oct 10, 2001 by Charles Kimball

A New Religious America. By Diana L. Eck. HarperSanFrancisco, 404 pp., $27.00.