Most books on Islam and Christianity (excluding testimonial ones) deal with the subject in one or two ways: political or doctrinal. While these comparisons are helpful, they suffer two shortcomings. The first is that they tend to be polemical, which frequently obscures the understanding of the issues at hand. The second is that, as anyone involved in politics or the media knows, people generally don’t think in terms of doctrine or ideology: they think in terms of narrative. That’s why it’s so important for “narratives” to be established in the public square; it is difficult to dislodge a narrative that is fixed in the minds of the public.

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万物的两个故事：伊斯兰教和基督教相互竞争的元叙事，作者：杜安·亚历山大·米勒

大多数关于伊斯兰教和基督教的书籍（不包括推荐书）以一种或两种方式处理这个主题：政治或教义。虽然这些比较很有帮助，但它们有两个缺点。首先是它们倾向于争论不休，这常常掩盖了对手头问题的理解。第二个是，正如任何参与政治或媒体的人都知道的那样，人们通常不从教义或意识形态的角度思考：他们从叙事的角度思考。这就是为什么在公共广场建立“叙事”如此重要的原因。很难摆脱一种固定在公众脑海中的叙述。