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Author : Eve Mullen, Gordon Mitchell
Release : 2002
Genre : Religion and politics
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Book Rating : 482/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Religion and the Political Imagination in a Changing South Africa by : Eve Mullen, Gordon Mitchell
Download or read book Religion and the Political Imagination in a Changing South Africa written by Eve Mullen, Gordon Mitchell. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Abdulkader Tayob, Wolfram Weisse, David Chidester
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Genre : Religion and politics
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Book Synopsis Religion, Politics, and Identity in a Changing South Africa by : Abdulkader Tayob, Wolfram Weisse, David Chidester
Download or read book Religion, Politics, and Identity in a Changing South Africa written by Abdulkader Tayob, Wolfram Weisse, David Chidester. This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of religion in society? In the wake of September 11, public intellectuals provided easy answers. According to some, religion was the problem, others commented, religion was the solution. Generally, public debate about the force of religion in society has been organized by either/or propositions. Religion is a force for either freedom or bondage, for either peace or war, for either mutual recognition or antagonistic polarization. Analysis of religion and social change has also tended to be framed in terms of oppositions that inform research agendas and public policy. In this book, authors from South Africa, the United States of America, the Netherlands, and Germany test these oppositions.
Author : James Walters
Release : 2018-12-15
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 235/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Religious Imaginations by : James Walters
Download or read book Religious Imaginations written by James Walters. This book was released on 2018-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Market globalization, technology, climate change, and postcolonial political forces are together forging a new, more modern world. However, caught up in the mix are some powerful religious narratives that are galvanizing peoples and reimagining – and sometimes stifling – the political and social order. Some are repressive, fundamentalist imaginations, such as the so-called Islamic Caliphate. Others could be described as post-religious, such as the evolution of universal human rights out of the European Christian tradition. But the question of the compatibility of these religious worldviews, particularly those that have emerged out of the Abrahamic faith traditions, is perhaps the most pressing issue in global stability today. What scope for dialogue is there between the Jewish, Muslim, and Christian ways of imagining the future? How can we engage with these multiple imaginations to create a shared and peaceful global society? Religious Imaginations is an interdisciplinary volume of both new and well-known scholars exploring how religious narratives interact with the contemporary geopolitical climate.
Author : John H.A. Dyck
Release : 2010-06-10
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Politics and the Religious Imagination by : John H.A. Dyck
Download or read book Politics and the Religious Imagination written by John H.A. Dyck. This book was released on 2010-06-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics and the Religious Imagination is the product of a group of interdisciplinary scholars each analyzing the connections between religious narratives and the construction of regional and global politics, combining a set of theoretical and philosophic insights with several case studies that represent varied geographies and religious customs. The past decade has seen increasing interest in the links between religion and politics, and this edited volume seeks to take religion seriously as a motivator of action. Few studies have attempted to bring together the multi-disciplinary work in this burgeoning field of study and this work takes a global perspective, using a variety of contexts including East-West relations to analyze the following key themes: the constructive and destructive hermeneutics of religious stories the relevance and importance of religion as a dominant political narrative the rise of new stories among groups as agents of change the way that religious narratives help to define and constrain the Other the manipulation of religious stories for political benefit This work argues that it is insufficient to judge the relationship of religion and politics through mere institutional or quantitative lenses, and this collection proves that while this promise of the narrative part of the social imaginary has been recognized in political theory to a certain extent, its influence in the realm of empirical political science has yet to be fully considered. Combining the work of a wide range of experts, this collection will be of great interests to scholars of politics, philosophy, religious studies, and the literary influence of religion.
Author : Abdulkader Tayob
Release : 2004-01-01
Genre : Religion and politics
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Book Synopsis Religion, Politics, and Identity in a Changing South Africa by : Abdulkader Tayob
Download or read book Religion, Politics, and Identity in a Changing South Africa written by Abdulkader Tayob. This book was released on 2004-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of religion in society? In the wake of September 11, public intellectuals provided easy answers. According to some, religion was the problem, others commented, religion was the solution. Generally, public debate about the force of religion in society has been organized by either/or propositions. Religion is a force for either freedom or bondage, for either peace or war, for either mutual recognition or antagonistic polarization. Analysis of religion and social change has also tended to be framed in terms of oppositions that inform research agendas and public policy. In this book, authors from South Africa, the United States of America, the Netherlands, and Germany test these oppositions.
