Spokesmen For The Despised
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Spokesmen For The Despised
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Author : R. Scott Appleby
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1997
Spokesmen For The Despised written by R. Scott Appleby and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
Presents eight vivid portraits of the little-known men who are leaders of the fundamentalist Islamic political groups such as Hizbullah, Shi'ite, Hamas, Jewish Zionists, and Christian Zionists.
The Ambivalence Of The Sacred
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Author : R. Scott Appleby
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2000
The Ambivalence Of The Sacred written by R. Scott Appleby and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Political Science categories.
This text explains what religious terrorists and religious peacemakers share in common and what causes them to take different paths in fighting injustice.
Fields Of Blood
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Author : Karen Armstrong
language : en
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Release Date : 2014-10-28
Fields Of Blood written by Karen Armstrong and has been published by Knopf Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-28 with Religion categories.
From the renowned and bestselling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion's connection to violence. For the first time in American history, religious self-identification is on the decline. Some have cited a perception that began to grow after September 11: that faith in general is a source of aggression, intolerance and divisiveness--something bad for society. But how accurate is that view? And does it apply equally to all faiths? In these troubled times, we risk basing decisions of real and dangerous consequence on mistaken understandings of the faiths subscribed around us, in our immediate community as well as globally. And so, with her deep learning and sympathetic understanding, Karen Armstrong examines the impulse toward violence in each of the world's great religions. The comparative approach is new: while there have been plenty of books on jihad or the Crusades, this book lays the Christian and the Islamic way of war side by side, along with those of Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Daoism and Judaism. Each of these faiths arose in agrarian societies with plenty of motivation for violence: landowners had to lord it over peasants and warfare was essential to increase one's landholdings, the only real source of wealth before the great age of trade and commerce. In each context, it fell to the priestly class to legitimize the actions of the state. And so the martial ethos became bound up with the sacred. At the same time, however, their ideologies developed that ran counter to the warrior code: around sages, prophets and mystics. Within each tradition there grew up communities that represented a protest against the injustice and violence endemic to agrarian society. This book explores the symbiosis of these 2 impulses and its development as these confessional faiths came of age. The aggression of secularism has often damaged religion and pushed it into a violent mode. But modernity has also been spectacularly violent, and so Armstrong goes on to show how and in what measure religions, in their relative maturity, came to absorb modern belligerence--and what hope there might be for peace among believers in our time.
Comparative Perspectives On Judaisms And Jewish Identities
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Author : Stephen Sharot
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2011
Comparative Perspectives On Judaisms And Jewish Identities written by Stephen Sharot and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Antinomianism categories.
Provides sociological analyses of religious developments and identities in both historical and contemporary Jewish communities.
Apocalyptic Movements In Contemporary Politics
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Author : C. Aldrovandi
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-05-27
Apocalyptic Movements In Contemporary Politics written by C. Aldrovandi and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-27 with Social Science categories.
This book explores Israeli Religious Zionism and US Christian Zionism by focusing on the Messianic and Millenarian drives at the basis of their political mobilization towards a 'Jewish colonization' of the occupied territories.
Rogue Regimes
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Author : Raymond Tanter
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 1999-02-15
Rogue Regimes written by Raymond Tanter and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-02-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Explores U.S. foreign policy with regard to nations such as Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Libya, uncovering the reasons why these countries are so menacing to the United States.
Theologies Of Liberation In Palestine Israel
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Author : Nur Masalha
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2014-04-29
Theologies Of Liberation In Palestine Israel written by Nur Masalha and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-29 with Religion categories.
This collection of essays concerns the development of contextualized theologies of liberation in Palestine and the indigenous Palestinian people's struggle for justice and liberation. The work is innovative because of its inclusion of indigenous perspectives within its remit and the introduction of new concepts such as civil liberation theology. The collection offers other ways to look at biblical discourses and their impact on the ongoing conflict, ways to live peace, ways to be ethical when visiting these conflicted lands, understandings of resource ethics, and even a new way to understand how we approach our understanding of liberation theology. Contributors include well-known scholars from Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Palestinian-Israeli, Indian, American, and British contexts. This work goes beyond standard academic collections. It is aimed not only at scholars and students but also at peace activists and policymakers. It should be of use not only in academic courses but also for practitioners of conflict resolution, peace and reconciliation.
Strong Religion
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Author : Gabriel A. Almond
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2011-04-15
Strong Religion written by Gabriel A. Almond and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-15 with Social Science categories.
After the September 11 terrorist attacks against the United States, religious fundamentalism has dominated public debate as never before. Policymakers, educators, and the general public all want to know: Why do fundamentalist movements turn violent? Are fundamentalisms a global threat to human rights, security, and democratic forms of government? What is the future of fundamentalism? To answer questions like these, Strong Religion draws on the results of the Fundamentalism Project, a decade-long interdisciplinary study of antimodernist, antisecular militant religious movements on five continents and within seven world religious traditions. The authors of this study analyze the various social structures, cultural contexts, and political environments in which fundamentalist movements have emerged around the world, from the Islamic Hamas and Hizbullah to the Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries of Northern Ireland, and from the Moral Majority and Christian Coalition of the United States to the Sikh radicals and Hindu nationalists of India. Offering a vividly detailed portrait of the cultures that nourish such movements, Strong Religion opens a much-needed window onto different modes of fundamentalism and identifies the kind of historical events that can trigger them.
Secularization And The World Religions
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Author : Klaus Wiegandt
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Secularization And The World Religions written by Klaus Wiegandt and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Social Science categories.
This volume concerns itself with the connections between religions and the social world and with the extent, limits, and future of secularization. Dealing with the major religious traditions and their explicit or implicit ideas about the individual, social, and political order, as well as offering an overview of the religious situation in important geographical areas, Secularization and the World Religions analyzes the legal organization of the relationship between state and religion—as well as the role of the natural sciences—in a global perspective. Contributors include such internationally renowned scholars as Winfried Brugger, José Casanova, Hans Joas, and Hans Kippenberg.
The Biggest Prison On Earth
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Author : Ilan Pappe
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-06-22
The Biggest Prison On Earth written by Ilan Pappe and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-22 with History categories.
In this comprehensive survey of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappe exposes the history of one of the world's most prolonged and tragic conflicts. Locating the occupation within a wider historical context that stretches back to 1948, Pappe dismisses the conventional view that the 1967 war emerged out of the blue, 'forcing' Israel to occupy the contentious territories. Using recently declassified archival material, Pappe analyzes the establishment of legal and security infrastructures that were put in place to control the population, revealing harsh oppression that was never advertised in international headlines, and which passed without any substantial Palestinian resistance for the first twenty years of its existence. Then turning to the years that have passed since the resistance began in 1987, Pappe offers hopeful visions of a future of reconciliation and peace.