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Author: Bruce Lincoln
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1985-07-22
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1349179043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPapers from a symposium on "Religion and revolution," held at the University of Minnesota, 6-8 Nov. 1981.
Author: Bruce Lincoln
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Published: 1985
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ISBN-13: 9781349179060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bruce Lincoln
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780312670610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Warren S. Goldstein
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022-05-19
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1000583341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReligion in Rebellions, Revolutions, and Social Movements demonstrates that, while religion is often a social force that maintains, if not legitimates, the sociopolitical order, it is also a decisive factor in economic, social, and political conflict. The book explores how and under what conditions religion functions as a progressive and/or reactionary force that compels people to challenge or protect social orders. The authors focus on the role that religion has played in peasant, slave, and plebeian rebellions; revolutions, including the Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Iranian; and modern social movements. In addition to these case studies, the book also contains theoretical chapters that explore the relationship religious thought has with the politics of liberation and oppression. It examines the institutional, organizational, ritualistic, discursive, ideological, and/or framing mechanisms that give religion its oppressive and liberating structures. Many scholars of religion continue very conventional modes of thinking, ignoring how religion has been—and continues to be—both a hegemonic and counterhegemonic force in conflict. This book looks at both sides of the equation. This international and interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of politics of religion, sociology of religion, religious studies, gender studies, and history.
Author: Phillip Berryman
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2004-01-29
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1592445160
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a provocative and important contribution to understanding the role of Catholicism in the struggle for justice in Central America. Phillip Berryman writes with the sensitivity and passion of a Christian who has lived the biblical option for the poor. Penny Lernoux
Author: János M. Bak
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780719009907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Phillip Berryman
Publisher:
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780783798011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark Juergensmeyer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2008-05-16
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0520934768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy has the turn of the twenty-first century been rocked by a new religious rebellion? From al Qaeda to Christian militias to insurgents in Iraq, a strident new religious activism has seized the imaginations of political rebels around the world. Building on his groundbreaking book, The New Cold War?: Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State, Mark Juergensmeyer here provides an up-to-date road map through this complex new religious terrain. Basing his discussion on interviews with militant activists and case studies of rebellious movements, Juergensmeyer puts a human face on conflicts that have become increasingly abstract. He revises our notions of religious revolution and offers positive proposals for responding to religious activism in ways that will diminish the violence and lead to an accommodation between radical religion and the secular world.
Author: Michael Walzer
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015-03-01
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 0300213913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany of the successful campaigns for national liberation in the years following World War II were initially based on democratic and secular ideals. Once established, however, the newly independent nations had to deal with entirely unexpected religious fierceness. Michael Walzer, one of America’s foremost political thinkers, examines this perplexing trend by studying India, Israel, and Algeria, three nations whose founding principles and institutions have been sharply attacked by three completely different groups of religious revivalists: Hindu militants, ultra-Orthodox Jews and messianic Zionists, and Islamic radicals. In his provocative, well-reasoned discussion, Walzer asks why these secular democratic movements have failed to sustain their hegemony: Why have they been unable to reproduce their political culture beyond one or two generations? In a postscript, he compares the difficulties of contemporary secularism to the successful establishment of secular politics in the early American republic—thereby making an argument for American exceptionalism but gravely noting that we may be less exceptional today.
Author: Daniel S. Stackhouse Jr. Ph. D.
Publisher:
Published: 2017-09-19
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9781635759549
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOften when the subject of religion and the American Revolution is written about or discussed, people fall into one of two camps. The first proclaims that America was founded as a Christian nation based upon the Bible and its teachings. Meanwhile, the other declares that America was created as a completely secular country and that Christianity, the Bible, God, and Jesus had absolutely nothing to do with it. In Rebellion to Tyrants Is Obedience to God: The Role of Christianity in the American Revolution, Daniel S. Stackhouse Jr. argues that Christianity played a significant role in the creation of the American republic. While acknowledging that the revolution birthed a nation with a secular constitution and therefore a secular government, Stackhouse also presents evidence that Christian thought, preaching, and practice helped to create and sustain colonial resistance to British policies and lead to the founding of the United States of America.
