Religion Politics And The Abuse Of Power
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Author | : Ella Prvi |
Publisher | : FriesenPress |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2016-09-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1460258665 |
How did religions appear? How are they entwined with politics at the local and national levels? Who truly holds the balance of power in society? This insightful and persuasive essay covers a wide range of topics that the author seamlessly ties together in a biting critique of politics, religion, and the people that hold power over so many lives. Through a detailed examination of biblical verse, failed social systems, and political power structures, author Ella Prvi and translator Franc Krajberger give a scathing critique of the failings of human immaturity.
Author | : Richard J. Bernstein |
Publisher | : Polity |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 074563494X |
Since 9/11 politicians, preachers, conservatives, and the media are all speaking about evil. In this text, Richard Bernstein challenges the claim that without an appeal to absolutes, we lack the grounds for acting decisively in fighting our enemies.
Author | : Justin Buckley Dyer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2016-08-08 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1107108241 |
This book shows how Lewis was interested in the truths and falsehoods about human nature and how these conceptions manifest themselves in the public square.
Author | : Robert Benne |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2010-09-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0802863647 |
"There is nothing greater than indignation to stimulate a writer to write." says Robert Benne, "and my outrage has been stirred mightily by reading so many wrongheaded 'takes' on how religion and politics ought to be related." --
Author | : Gustavo Benavides |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1989-07-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0791496279 |
This book explores the interaction between two of the most charged topics in the modern world, religion and politics. It shows the inextricable connection between religious attitudes and representations, and political activities. After an introductory chapter explores theoretically the religious articulations of political power, the authors examine the role played by religion in the current political situation in several countries. Approaching these cases as anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and political scientists, the authors make visible the dialectical relationship between religion and the pursuit of political power—on the one hand, the political significance of religious choices, and on the other, the almost unavoidable need to articulate in religious terms a group's attempt to acquire, maintain, or expand political power.
Author | : David Domke |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2010-09-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0199813388 |
This volume offers a timely and dynamic study of the rise of religion in American politics, examining the public messages of political leaders over the past seventy-five years. The authors show that U.S. politics today is defined by a calculated, deliberate, and partisan use of faith that is unprecedented in modern politics. Beginning with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, America has seen a no-holds-barred religious politics that seeks to attract voters, identify and attack enemies, and solidify power. Domke and Coe identify a set of religious signals sent by both Republicans and Democrats in speeches, party platforms, proclamations, visits to audiences of faith, and even celebrations of Christmas. The updated edition of this ground-breaking book includes a new preface, an updated analysis of the last Bush administration, as well as a new final chapter on the Jeremiah Wright controversy, the candidacies of Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin, and Barack Obama's victory.
Author | : Phyllis Schlafly |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2012-07-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1621570150 |
The Obama administration's overreaching and pervasive secularist policies represent the greatest government-directed assault on religious freedom in American history. So argue conservative movement leader Phyllis Schlafly and journalist George Neumayr in their new book, No Higher Power. In No Higher Power, Schlafly and Neumayr show how Obama is waging war on our religious liberties and actively working to create one nation under him rather than one nation under God. "Obama views traditional religion as a temporary opiate for the poor, confused, and jobless—a drug that will dissipate as the federal government assumes more God-like powers, and his new secularist beliefs and policies gain adherents," write Schlafly and Neumayr. From cutting funding for religious schools to Obama’s deliberate omission of God and religion in public speeches to his assault on the Catholic church, No Higher Power is a shocking and comprehensive look at how Obama is violating one of our most fundamental rights—and remaking our country into a nation our Founding Fathers would hardly recognize.
Author | : Debra Maria Flint |
Publisher | : Lantern Books |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2024-03-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1590567234 |
This radical book examines the historical formation of Catholic theology from the perspective of the spiritual abuse of women. Debra Maria Flint defines spiritual and political power abuse before considering female influence in the Church from New Testament times to date. She clearly demonstrates how women, who were respected by Jesus and authoritative in the early Church, were gradually eliminated from positions of influence by patriarchy and the growing development of misogyny. In No Place for a Woman, Flint examines the hierarchical structure of the Church today and notes that in recent years there have been some attempts to involve women more fully, but these have been mere tinkering at the edges. What is really needed is a complete change of culture and a new feminist theology for which Flint seeks to lay the ground.
Author | : Ivan Strenski |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2010-03-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781405176491 |
Why Politics Can't be Freed From Religion is an original, erudite, and timely new book from Ivan Strenski. Itinterrogates the central ideas and contexts behind religion, politics, and power, proposing an alternative way in which we should think about these issues in the twenty-first century. A timely and highly original contribution to debates about religion, politics and power – and how historic and social influences have prejudiced our understanding of these concepts Proposes a new theoretical framework to think about what these ideas and institutions mean in today&'s society Applies this new perspective to a variety of real-world issues, including insights into suicide bombers in the Middle East Includes radical critiques of the religious and political perspectives of thinkers such as Talal Asad and Michel Foucault Dislodges our conventional thinking about politics and religion, and in doing so, helps make sense of the complexities of our twenty-first century world
Author | : Roland Boer |
Publisher | : Duke University Press Books |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2009-03-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
A scholar of biblical studies and cultural theory develops a political myth for the Left based on foundational stories in the Bibles first six books, from Genesis through Joshua.