Category: Politics State

By Rodney Barker (auth.)

ISBN-10: 0230287530

ISBN-13: 9780230287532

ISBN-10: 1349354643

ISBN-13: 9781349354641

By Mark Juergensmeyer, Margo Kitts, Michael Jerryson

ISBN-10: 0199759995

ISBN-13: 9780199759996

Violence has continually performed a component within the non secular mind's eye, from symbols and myths to mythical battles, from large wars to the theater of terrorism. The Oxford instruction manual of faith and Violence surveys intersections among faith and violence all through historical past and round the world.

The 40 unique essays during this quantity contain overviews of significant spiritual traditions, exhibiting how violence is justified in the literary and theological foundations of the culture, the way it is used symbolically and in ritual perform, and the way social acts of violence and struggle were justified by way of non secular rules. The essays additionally research styles and topics in terms of spiritual violence, reminiscent of sacrifice and martyrdom, that are explored in cross-disciplinary or local analyses; and supply significant analytic techniques, from literary to social clinical stories.

The participants to this volume--innovative thinkers who're forging new instructions in thought and research with regards to faith and violence--provide novel insights into this significant box of reports. through mapping out the entire box of faith and violence, The Oxford instruction manual of faith and Violence will end up an authoritative resource for college kids and students for years to come.

By John C. Green, Mark J. Rozell, Clyde Wilcox

ISBN-10: 1589011090

ISBN-13: 9781589011090

The Christian correct by no means ceases to shock specialist observers of yank politics. With the Christian coalition in disarray, many anticipated that the stream may play much less of a job within the 2004 elections. but if go out polls said that "moral values" have been the main generally stated cause of presidential vote selection, pundits instantly proclaimed the significance of the "values vote." but the position of the Christian correct, of statewide referenda on same-sex marriage, and of non secular mobilization remained the topic of discussion. The Values crusade? The Christian correct and the 2004 Elections reaches well past the moment analyses of the post-election interval to supply an evaluation of the position of the spiritual correct in 2004. The members to this quantity are one of the major students of faith and politics within the usa, and plenty of have contributed for over a decade to ongoing discussions of the function performed by way of the spiritual correct in nationwide elections.

The authors examine nationwide mobilization and matters, and likewise discover the function of the Christian correct in particular states. Their reviews contend that the "values crusade" was once no longer an aberration yet a constant development of nationwide politics, and that ethical traditionalism will most likely remain a major factor in destiny elections.

A well timed research of the 2004 elections, this quantity will attract students and observers of electoral politics, kingdom politics, and faith and politics.

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By David I. Kertzer

ISBN-10: 0618224424

ISBN-13: 9780618224425

By Graham Spencer

ISBN-10: 1441140646

ISBN-13: 9781441140647

ISBN-10: 1441159673

ISBN-13: 9781441159670

ISBN-10: 1623569672

ISBN-13: 9781623569679

ISBN-10: 1623569966

ISBN-13: 9781623569969

This is the 1st publication to comprehensively learn the shifts that experience knowledgeable republican culture and transformation from the start of the "Troubles" in Northern eire till the ultimate levels of the peace technique. utilizing a mixture of empirical learn and literature, the e-book addresses Northern Irish republican id in the course of the impacts of mind's eye, heritage and Catholicism sooner than it charts the approaches of decision-making and administration that formed the transition from militarism to politics. Drawing from interview fabric from quite a lot of actors and key gamers the ebook considers the demanding situations that political republicanism has labored to beat and concludes that ongoing political improvement would require a much less acute, extra ambiguous conversation of values according to pragmatism and compromise, instead of the ongoing articulation of rules and convictions that sustained the armed struggle.

A certain paintings, From Armed fight to Political Struggle is key for college students and researchers in Irish politics, clash answer, and defense studies

By J. Perkinson

ISBN-10: 1137507004

ISBN-13: 9781137507006

By Andrew R. Murphy

ISBN-10: 0190271191

ISBN-13: 9780190271190

ISBN-10: 0190271213

ISBN-13: 9780190271213

This paintings argues that regardless of frequent scholarly forget, William Penn (1644-1718) used to be a worldly political philosopher who contributed in vital how one can the speculation and perform of non secular liberty within the early glossy Atlantic world.

By M. Salih, B. de Gaay Fortman, Bas de Gaay Fortman, Kurt Martens

ISBN-10: 0230105955

ISBN-13: 9780230105959

ISBN-10: 1349383929

ISBN-13: 9781349383924

This ebook articulates the relationships regarding hermeneutics and scriptural politics within the complicated fields of spiritual freedom and human rights, with specific specialize in ladies and minorities in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.

By Kenneth D. Wald

ISBN-10: 1442201517

ISBN-13: 9781442201514

ISBN-10: 1442201525

ISBN-13: 9781442201521

ISBN-10: 1442201533

ISBN-13: 9781442201538

Faith and Politics within the usa, 6th version, deals a entire account of the position of non secular rules, associations and groups in American existence. This ebook examines the methods faith can either compel and constrain involvement in politics and coverage. What allows political participation? What impedes it? What are the bounds of non secular mobilization and involvement? Are there merits? Are there risks? faith and Politics within the usa addresses those questions via exploring how faith has encouraged the constitution of yankee govt and legislation in addition to how non secular views tell modern political matters together with subject matters comparable to equivalent rights for girls and gays. The publication additionally explores the ways in which faith has affected the orientation of partisan politics within the usa. via an in depth evaluate of the political attitudes and behaviors of significant non secular and minority religion traditions, the publication establishes that faith remains to be an important a part of the yank cultural and political milieu whereas explaining that it needs to have interaction with many different components to affect political results within the usa. The 6th version stories the position of faith within the 2008 election, and contains totally up to date assurance of the way faith informs the civil rights struggles of ladies and homosexual americans.

By Paul P. Mariani

ISBN-10: 0674061535

ISBN-13: 9780674061538

By 1952 the chinese language Communist get together had suppressed all geared up resistance to its regime and stood unopposed, or so it's been believed. inner get together documents―declassified simply lengthy sufficient for historian Paul Mariani to ship copies out of China―disclose that one staff deemed an enemy of the kingdom held out after the others had fallen. a celebration file from Shanghai marked “top-secret” finds a decided, frequently brave resistance through the neighborhood Catholic Church. Drawing on centuries of expertise in being affected by the chinese language professionals, the Church used to be proving a obdurate fit for the party.

Mariani tells the tale of ways Bishop (later Cardinal) Ignatius Kung Pinmei, the Jesuits, and the Catholic adolescence resisted the regime’s punishing attack at the Shanghai Catholic neighborhood and refused to give up the pope and the Church in Rome. performing clandestinely, mirroring strategies utilized by the formerly underground CCP, Shanghai’s Catholics continued until eventually 1955, while the celebration arrested Kung and 1,200 different best Catholics. The imprisoned believers have been later surprised to profit that the betrayal had come from inside of their very own ranks.

Though the CCP couldn't remove the Catholic Church in China, it succeeded in dividing it. Mariani’s mystery background lines the origins of a deep break up within the chinese language Catholic group, the place kinfolk among the “Patriotic” and underground church buildings stay strained even today.