The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism by Karen Armstrong

In The Battle for God, Karen Armstrong traces the emergence of modern fundamentalist movements across three religious traditions. Her central examples are Protestant movements in the United States, Jewish movements in Israel and Muslim movements in Egypt and Iran.

She considers their development alongside secularization, political conflict and the pressures of modernity. This is a comparative historical interpretation of religious movements, not a devotional or religious-practice manual.