Religion and politics Books
Bristol University Press The Political Economy of the Irish Welfare State
Book SynopsisA fascinating interpretation of the evolution of social policy in modern Ireland, as the product of a triangulated relationship between church, state and capital.Trade Review"This is one of those rare books that can step back from the flow of history, identifying the continuities behind seemingly sweeping changes. Thus, it is far more than a history of the Irish welfare state as it places this embodiment of a just society in the wider context of the forces shaping Irish society and the grossly unjust and unequal outcomes. It is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how, over the last century, Ireland has become what it is. Perhaps more importantly, it sets out the immensely challenging agenda facing those who seek to lay the foundations of a society that has the will and the ability to work for, and cherish well, all its citizens." Professor Peadar Kirby, University of Limerick, Ireland“From this beautifully written book I have finally come to understand how the Irish welfare state model’s unique blend of residualism, familialism and subordination to the market economy evolved. Fred Powell provides us with an impressive and extraordinarily rich historical reconstruction of how conservative Catholicism and nationalism underpin the peculiar features of Irish social policy.” Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Professor of Sociology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona"The Political Economy of the Irish Welfare State is at once a coherent and provocative examination of the role of social policy in shaping modern Ireland, a comparative analysis of Irish modernisation and a vital contribution to Irish social history. It combines both breadth of analysis and lucid focus. Professor Powell’s landmark book should be required reading for students of modern Irish history, Irish society and Irish institutions." Professor Bryan Fanning, University College Dublin"This is a forthrightly critical, wide ranging and engaging study. It conveys with skill and panache the particular, unique development of the welfare state in Ireland, shaped by conservative Catholic culture and power, as well as progressive social movements, particularly the women’s movement. This is contextualised throughout by reference to social policy regime analysis and modernisation, laced with a keen sense of social justice opposed to undemocratic corporate power, neoliberalism and patriarchy." Norman Ginsburg, Professor of Social Policy, London Metropolitan University"Professor Fred Powell has written a book which captures the complex narrative of the Irish Welfare State. In a clearly written and engaging account of welfare politics and policy, he documents how the progressive instincts of democrats, socialists and feminists were overwhelmed from the establishment of independent Ireland in the early 1920s by an alliance of state, church, and property interests. This has given rise to a society where the welfare of the people and the values of social justice are secondary to the priorities of institutions, economy, and local and global vested interests." Professor Cathal O'Connell, University College Cork“Powell outlines the failure over 100 years of politics and institutions in Ireland, to deliver a universalist Welfare State based on social obligation, common citizenship and human rights. The book lays bare the consequences of this failure for the citizens of Ireland. Students of contemporary Irish social policy seeking to understand the enduring unacceptable levels of poverty, housing deprivation and an inequitable two -tier health care system will find provocative answers in this engaging book.” Professor Eoin O’Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin"Fred Powell's erudite but compulsively readable analysis of why Ireland has never managed to create a fully developed welfare state is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand why the country is as it is and what it needs to do if a just and caring society is to be more than an aspiration." Fintan O'Toole, Columnist, The Irish Times“This book is highly accessible for an international readership, not only of people interested in Ireland, but also for those who want to gain a better understanding of welfare state developments as outcomes of the interaction of social forces, religious and political beliefs, institutional interests and capitalist offers you can hardly refuse.” Paul Dekker, Professor of Civil Society, Tilburg University (NL)Table of ContentsIntroduction; Why the welfare state matters; Revolution, culture and society; Welfare in the Free State; Religious nationalism, sectarianism and anti-semitism; The welfare state debate; Poverty and social inequality; Liberty, gender and sexuality; The marketisation of the welfare state; Crisis, austerity and water; Conclusion.
£81.89
The University of North Carolina Press Public Confessions
Book SynopsisPersonal reinvention is a core part of the human condition. Yet in the mid-twentieth century, certain private religious choices became lightning rods for public outrage and debate. Public Confessions reveals the controversial religious conversions that shaped modern America.Trade ReviewA sterling history of mid-20th-century religious conversions and the social issues surrounding them. . . . This impressive work captures a fraught period in American political and religious history with a clear eye and insightful reasoning." - Publishers Weekly, starred review"Davis deftly connect[s] her history of public converts, who helped clarify voters' views on race and democracy, among other issues, to the rise of the religious right...It isn't hard to see the parallels for both Trump and Biden in Davis's history...Like it or not, religion and politics find ways to mix. As issues of special religious significance—particularly abortion—heat up, it may be impossible for the president to escape the world that Davis outlines." - Washington Monthly "Fascinating...Public Confessions offers readers ample opportunities to ask themselves whom they believe and why, as well as what might make their own professions of faith believable to a watching world." - Christianity Today"The importance of the book, though, is not celebrity conversions. It is about the mixing of religion and politics in U.S. public life, often blurring the line between religious beliefs and political agendas." - Catholic Sentinel"The importance of the book . . . is about the mixing of religion and politics in US public life, often blurring the line between religious beliefs and political agendas." - Catholic Standard"This book is for anyone looking to understand the nuanced relationship between fame, religious identity, and US politics." - The Christian Century"A rare combination of good storytelling and sharp analysis. . . . [T]his book [is] essential to understanding the rise of therapeutic language and how it became essential to understanding so much about American culture in the twentieth century." - Church History"The amount of ground that Davis covers, and the care with which she covers it, in just 180 pages is astounding. . . . Davis's empathy and wit as a narrator put her, in my book, on par with the best biographers." - Journal of Social History "[Davis's] take on selected public conversions (which are simultaneously confessions, as the book title suggests) is as measured as it is profound. Public conversions contained a gravity during this period that moved the needle of public discourse. Davis is wise to raise them to our attention." - Reading Religion"Recommended." - CHOICE
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Duke University Press Religion Secularism and Political Belonging
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging examine how the new political worlds that are emerging—from Trump's America to the post-Arab-Spring Middle East—intersect with locally specific articulations of religion and secularism.Trade Review“Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging attends to transnational particularities as a way to address global realities. The book brings together teams of scholars working in different geographic areas and developing their analyses through engagement with each other and the world. Starting from the multiplicity of secularisms and the entanglement of secularism, religion, and political belonging, they build connections between the politics of critique and the ethics of care.” -- Janet R. Jakobsen, Claire Tow Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University“Leerom Medovoi and Elizabeth Bentley have put together a rich comparative volume on the complexities of religion and secularism that indicates the range and varieties of both as well as the intense interactions between them in different national and global contexts. This compelling and unique collection will be taken up by many readers concerned with questions of religion, the secular, and the political.” -- David Theo Goldberg, author of * Are We All Postracial Yet? *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: Translated Secularisms, Global Humanities / Leerom Medovoi and Elizabeth Bentley 1 Part I. Secularism Keyword: Neutrality / Elizabeth Bentley 35 Keyword: Science / John Vignaux Smyth 43 1. Strict Neutrality Reconsidered: Religion and Political Belonging in the Netherlands / Pooyan Tamimi Arab 49 2. Confucian Secularism in Theoretical and Historical Perspective / Albert Welter 69 3. From Exclusive to Inclusive Secularity: Religion, State, and the Public Space in Tunisia after the Revolution / Mohanad Mustafa 85 4. Neoliberal Political Theology / Marcia Klotz and Leerom Medovoi 107 5. "Christian Atheism" on Twitter: Dutch Populism and/as Culturalized Religion / Ernst van den Hemel 125 Part II. Religion Keyword: Nationalism / Ernst van den Hemel and Markus Balkenhol 139 Keyword: Fundamentalism / Leerom Medovoi 147 6. Religion, Politics, and Nationalism, a Case Study: The Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement / Raef Zreik and Mohanad Mustafa 155 7. Trains on Time: Faith, Political Belonging, and Governability in Israel / Ori Goldberg 175 8. Making Sense by Comprehending Sensibility: A View of Chinese Religions / Mu-chou Poo 191 9. Evangelical Christianity, Big Business, and the Resurgenc of American Conservatism during the 1970s / David N. Gibbs 207 10. Among New Believers: Religion, Gender, and National Identity in the Netherlands / Eva Midden 223 Part III. Political Belonging Keyword: Faith / Ori Goldberg 239 Keyword: Civil Religion / Mu-chou Poo 243 11. Muslim Migration, Citizenship, and Belonging in U.S. Politics of Secularism / Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 251 12. Commemorating the African Ancestors: Entanglements of Citizenship, Colonialism, and Religion in the Netherlands / Markus Balkenhol 265 13. Transsecular Incarnations: Destabilizing the (Cis)Gender Politics of Secularism / Zeynap Kurtuluş Korkman 283 14. Christianity and the Political Religion of China / Francis Ching-Wah Yip 305 15. Critical Israel: Toward a Contemporary Political Theology of the Particular / Shaul Setter 325 Contributors 343 Index 347
£75.65
Duke University Press Religion Secularism and Political Belonging
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging examine how the new political worlds that are emerging—from Trump's America to the post-Arab-Spring Middle East—intersect with locally specific articulations of religion and secularism.Trade Review“Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging attends to transnational particularities as a way to address global realities. The book brings together teams of scholars working in different geographic areas and developing their analyses through engagement with each other and the world. Starting from the multiplicity of secularisms and the entanglement of secularism, religion, and political belonging, they build connections between the politics of critique and the ethics of care.” -- Janet R. Jakobsen, Claire Tow Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University“Leerom Medovoi and Elizabeth Bentley have put together a rich comparative volume on the complexities of religion and secularism that indicates the range and varieties of both as well as the intense interactions between them in different national and global contexts. This compelling and unique collection will be taken up by many readers concerned with questions of religion, the secular, and the political.” -- David Theo Goldberg, author of * Are We All Postracial Yet? *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: Translated Secularisms, Global Humanities / Leerom Medovoi and Elizabeth Bentley 1 Part I. Secularism Keyword: Neutrality / Elizabeth Bentley 35 Keyword: Science / John Vignaux Smyth 43 1. Strict Neutrality Reconsidered: Religion and Political Belonging in the Netherlands / Pooyan Tamimi Arab 49 2. Confucian Secularism in Theoretical and Historical Perspective / Albert Welter 69 3. From Exclusive to Inclusive Secularity: Religion, State, and the Public Space in Tunisia after the Revolution / Mohanad Mustafa 85 4. Neoliberal Political Theology / Marcia Klotz and Leerom Medovoi 107 5. "Christian Atheism" on Twitter: Dutch Populism and/as Culturalized Religion / Ernst van den Hemel 125 Part II. Religion Keyword: Nationalism / Ernst van den Hemel and Markus Balkenhol 139 Keyword: Fundamentalism / Leerom Medovoi 147 6. Religion, Politics, and Nationalism, a Case Study: The Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement / Raef Zreik and Mohanad Mustafa 155 7. Trains on Time: Faith, Political Belonging, and Governability in Israel / Ori Goldberg 175 8. Making Sense by Comprehending Sensibility: A View of Chinese Religions / Mu-chou Poo 191 9. Evangelical Christianity, Big Business, and the Resurgenc of American Conservatism during the 1970s / David N. Gibbs 207 10. Among New Believers: Religion, Gender, and National Identity in the Netherlands / Eva Midden 223 Part III. Political Belonging Keyword: Faith / Ori Goldberg 239 Keyword: Civil Religion / Mu-chou Poo 243 11. Muslim Migration, Citizenship, and Belonging in U.S. Politics of Secularism / Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 251 12. Commemorating the African Ancestors: Entanglements of Citizenship, Colonialism, and Religion in the Netherlands / Markus Balkenhol 265 13. Transsecular Incarnations: Destabilizing the (Cis)Gender Politics of Secularism / Zeynap Kurtuluş Korkman 283 14. Christianity and the Political Religion of China / Francis Ching-Wah Yip 305 15. Critical Israel: Toward a Contemporary Political Theology of the Particular / Shaul Setter 325 Contributors 343 Index 347
£21.59
Duke University Press Capitalist Humanitarianism
Book SynopsisThe struggle against neoliberal order has gained momentum over the last five decades---to the point that economic elites have not only adapted to the Left''s critiques but incorporated them for capitalist expansion. Venture funds expose their ties to slavery and pledge to invest in racial equity. Banks pitch microloans as a path to indigenous self-determination. Fair-trade brands narrate consumption as an act of feminist solidarity with women artisans in the global South. In Capitalist Humanitarianism Lucia Hulsether examines these projects and the contexts of their emergence. Blending historical and ethnographic styles, and traversing intimate and global scales, Hulsether tracks how neoliberal self-critique creates new institutional hegemonies that, in turn, reproduce racial and neocolonial dispossession. From the archives of Christian fair traders to luxury social entrepreneurship conferences, from US finance offices to Guatemalan towns flooded with their loan products, from sTrade Review"Hulsether combines reportage, ethnographic research, personal narrative, and social theory to look at the ways in which the 21st-century global economic system has absorbed the very movements that seek to resist it. . . . [A] stance of constant resistance to an unjust system, even in the seeming absence of alternatives, is what Hulsether—who is a union activist as well as a teacher and scholar—calls us to take on. . . . Hulsether’s book models this approach beautifully, urging us to “write a history of the impossible” in which 'survival is not the end.'" -- Jeannine Marie Pitas * Christian Century *Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction: Capitalist Humanitarianism 1 Interlude One 19 1. May Analyze like a Capitalist: Fair Trade and Other Histories 25 Interlude Two 49 2. Ethical Vampires: Conscious Capitalism and Its Commodity Enchantments 53 Interlude Three 75 3. Marxists in the Microbank: From Solidarity Movement to Solidarity Lending 80 Interlude Four 102 4. Representing Inclusion: Humans of Capitalist Humanitarianism 106 Interlude Five 128 5. The Hunt for Yes: Archival Management and Manufactured Consent 134 Interlude Six 156 6. Hope for the Future: Reproductive Labor in the Neoliberal Multicultural Family 162 Epilogue 183 Acknowledgments 191 Notes 195 Bibliography 221 Index 239
£70.55
Duke University Press Queer Political Theologies
Book SynopsisWhile religion and queerness often are viewed as disparate, scholars in both fields of study share concerns and questions about how the modern subject, with its attachments to institutions and communities, is formed. This special issue of GLQ brings together queer studies and political theology in order to explore the relationship between the self and politics, theism, and queerness. Going beyond previous work in queer political theology that has focused primarily on Christianity, contributors to this issue consider how queer sexualities appear in other theological contexts, including articles on astrological, Blackpentecostal, Thirunangai, hijra, and sarimbavy ways of life, recentering marginalized and underrepresented minorities, beliefs, and practices. Contributors Ashon Crawley, Seth Palmer, Vaibhav Saria, David K. Seitz, Liza Tom, Ricky Varghese, Alexa Winstanley-Smith, Fan Wu
£8.99
New York University Press Evil Deeds in High Places
Book SynopsisHighlights Watergate as a critical turning point in Christian engagement in US politicsThe Watergate scandal was one of the most infamous events in American democratic history. Faith in the government plummeted, leaving the nation feeling betrayed and unsure who could be trusted anymore. In Evil Deeds in High Places, David E. Settje examines how Christian institutions reacted to this moral and ethical collapse, and the ways in which they chose to assert their moral authority. Settje argues that Watergate was a turning point for spurring Christian engagement with politics. While American Christians had certainly already been active in the public sphere, these events motivated a more urgent engagement in response, and served to pave the way for conservatives to push more fully into political power. Historians have carefully analyzed the judicial, media, congressional, and presidential actions surrounding Watergate, but there has been very little consideration of popular reactions of Trade Review"This book makes for very interesting reading – timely even as it discusses events five decades in the past." * Religion *"With this captivating book, David Settje brings a fresh perspective and uncovers new insights on the Watergate scandal and Nixon presidency. Settje shows that Watergate was not just a political scandal and Constitutional crisis; for many Americans it was also a religious test of faith. His excavation of the broad gamut of Protestant reactions is sensitive, nuanced, and compelling." -- William Inboden, Executive Director of the Clements Center for National Security and Associate Professor of Public Affairs and History, University of Texas at Austin"What makes Settje a good historian is that he takes pleasure in revealing the debates that shape and move historical narratives. Evil Deeds in High Places finds creative ways to pose contrasting views of Watergate and the nation to show the plurality of American voices, rather than the inherent wrongness of any one side. If nothing else, readers will find the origins of echoes for our time in what people said about Nixon." -- Raymond Haberski, author of God and War: American Civil Religion since 1945"A compelling look at how the Watergate scandal was framed through a theological lens ... Highly recommended." * Choice *
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New York University Press Conditional Belonging
Book SynopsisA compelling account of how race and politics have affected Iranian immigrants in the United Statesand GermanyIranians have a complex and contradictory relationship with race. Though categorized as white by the US census, many Iranian Americans remain marginalized, and experience racial and political stigma daily. On the other hand, Iranian Germans who have been in Germany for decades, and are typically regarded as 'good foreigners,' continue to experience marginality and discrimination illustrating the limitations of integration and citizenship. Conditional Belonging explores these apparent contradictions through a comparative analysis of the Iranian diasporic experience in the United States and Germany, focusing particularly on the different processes of racialization of the immigrants. Drawing from eighty-eight interviews with first- and second-generation Iranians living in California and Hamburg, Sahar Sadeghi illuminates how international events, global political policy, and natTrade ReviewConditional Belonging is a serious, timely contribution to scholarship on the racialization and migration experiences of Iranians. By providing the first in-depth, comparative analysis of Iranian immigrants in the United States and Germany, Sahar Sadeghi deepens our understanding of national and cultural membership in both societies. Clear, readable, and effective, this is an important book that answers the call for a more global and comparative Iranian diaspora studies * Neda Maghbouleh, author of The Limits of Whiteness *Conditional Belonging is a brilliant, piercing ethnographic portrayal of how first-and second-generation Iranians in the United States and Germany navigate the complexities of racialization while struggling to gain full recognition and social belonging—without ever quite succeeding. Gripping first-hand accounts reveal how race-based nationalism continues to inform the social order in liberal, democratic states and amplify the sidelining of so-called foreign others. This timely book is a must-read for understanding both the visible and hidden racial projects that undermine collective commitments to unconditional inclusion and equality. * Manata Hashemi, author of Coming of Age in Iran *Conditional Belonging demonstrates the ways in which empire (US) and racial nationalism (Germany) operate to situate Iranians as perpetual foreigners, including among the linguistically and culturally adept second generation and the most socially integrated of immigrants. Sadeghi’s fine attention to empirical detail shows us how these variations play out and how the rise of white nationalism in both countries has produced new yet divergent strategies of resistance. * Louise Cainkar, author of Homeland Insecurity *Review on Faculti Podcast, https://faculti.net/conditional-belonging/ -- Muhlenberg College * Faculti Podcast *
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New York University Press The Divided Mind of the Black Church
Book SynopsisA revealing look at the identity and mission of the Black churchWhat is the true nature and mission of the church? Is its proper Christian purpose to save souls, or to transform the social order? This question is especially fraught when the church is one built by an enslaved people and formed, from its beginning, at the center of an oppressed community's fight for personhood and freedom. Such is the central tension in the identity and mission of the Black church in the United States. For decades the Black church and Black theology have held each other at arm's length. Black theology has emphasized the role of Christian faith in addressing racism and other forms of oppression, arguing that Jesus urged his disciples to seek the freedom of all peoples. Meanwhile, the Black church, even when focused on social concerns, has often emphasized personal piety rather than social protest. With the rising influence of white evangelicalism, biblical fundamentalism, and the prosperity gospel, the Trade ReviewThe book reads as an altar call to action that honors the liberationist roots of a global church community, regardless of race or gender. * Publishers Weekly *Resilient in its hope and perceptive in its analysis, this book makes a valuable contribution to imagining a liberation-focused ecclesiology. * Ecumenical Review *The Divided Mind of the Black Church is an informative work for historians, theologians, and humanities scholars interested in debating what the Black Church needs to be doing in the 21st century. * Journal of African American History *Raphael G. Warnock's The Divided Mind of the Black Church is not only a scholarly monograph but also an autobiographical work on the pietistic and prophetic traditions of the black church. * Black Theology *Warnock weaves together an impressive array of subjects to advance his argument on the & divided mind of the black church.His introduction, five chapters, and conclusion provide much in structure and content for the advancement of his burden, namely, the construction of a & self-critical liberationist community where & piety and protest may be held in balance. * Sociology of Religion *This well-written and meticulously researched treatment of black church piety and social engagement is a timely and pivotal assessment as we head into the next chapter of American religious life. * The Christian Century *As a person who is not Black, reading this book provided a learning experience for me. It has helped me better understand the dynamics of the Black church. I could also see this book serving as a way to spark discussion involving all ethnic groups as to how we can all, as fellow Christians, blend the goals of saving lost people and moving the culture toward equality for everyone. * Ministry *Embodied in this book is the sharpness of mind of one with an earned Ph.D. in theological studies and the human compassion of a pastor of one of the major churches in the United States. Rarely, if at all, do we get to relish such combined matters of the head and heart. Moreover, this groundbreaking work is rooted in deep spirituality and progressive commitment to the Bible. The ponderings in these pages echo the insightful eyes of the prophetic mystic, Howard Thurman and the scholarly activism of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Dwight N. Hopkins,editor of The Cambridge Companion to Black TheologyRaphael Warnock's The Divided Mind of the Black Church is a courageous and timely effort to reinvigorate the rich tradition of the Black Church by a full-fledged engagement with the best of its history and theology. Like the Sankofa bird, he looks to the past in order to move forward! -- Cornel West,Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice, Union Theological SeminaryEloquently lays waste to the false theological dilemma between advocates of individual salvation and social justice. Real religion is both personal and political; Warnock skillfully shows how that works by probing creative tensions in the black church between heavenly hunger and earthly engagement. He brilliantly enhances the distinguished intellectual achievement of the historic Ebenezer pulpit by showing how black and womanist theologies partner with the black church to bring God's mighty word to bear on our souls and society all at once. -- Michael Eric Dyson,University Professor of Sociology, Georgetown UniversityRaphael Warnock demonstrates in this book that he is a worthy occupant of the Ebenezer pulpit, following in the intellectual tradition of Martin King and his mentor, Dr. Benjamin Mays. It was faith that led us to activism. Whether one is looking to understand the foundation of civil rights, to understand the role of faith in our public life or seeking to understand a personal call to serve, this book will be enlightening. -- Andrew Young,former U.N. Ambassador, Mayor of Atlanta and Executive Vice President of SCLCRaphael Warnock is known as one of the most brilliant orators of his generation. This excellent new book reveals him to be a brilliant scholar as well. It is the first major work to critically explore the 'double-minded' relationship between the social practice of black churches and the radical implications of their historical witness against the social oppression of the black masses. Warnocks path-breaking periodization of the social activism of the black church is a major contribution to understanding the role of black churches in this nations often stumbling march toward a racially just society. . . . The Divided Mind of the Black Church is a must read for every black pastor, theologian, scholar, and anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the history and political culture of black churches and the expanding contours of black theological scholarship. -- Obery M. Hendricks, Jr.,author of The Universe Bends Toward JusticeRaphael Warnock, a son of Pentecostal preachers, a theological protégée of James Cone, and pulpit heir of Martin Luther King, Jr., is brilliantly conversant with the ivory tower of academia, yet works in the ebony trenches for justice and the liberation of the 'least of these.' In this literary gift he has insightfully traced the ecclesial and theological journey of the Black Church in America, diagnosing a 'double consciousness' that borders on bipolarity. He prophetically pronounces liberation from captivity to a borrowed oppressive theology that is illustrated by Black pastors who have a picture of Dr. King in the study, but are influenced by Rick Warren when they preach from the pulpit. This scholar-prophet-pastor, in this wonderful work, is presiding over a wedding ceremony, uniting in holy wedlock, piety and protest, the scholarship of liberation and womanist scholars and the ministry and pulpit of the Black Church, with the hope that this marriage will birth a 'new moment of a self critical liberating community.' This family of freedom and faith proposed by Dr. Warnock will usher in that day when 'justice rolls down like waters and righteousness as an ever flowing stream.' -- Frederick D. Haynes III,Senior Pastor, Friendship-West Baptist ChurchAs we celebrate the life of the most famous black pastor, Martin Luther King Jr., we should remember that the black church mission connects faith with justice and personal salvation with social transformation, and addresses personal piety and public policy for the well-being of the whole person and the whole community. It fights for the weak and sees the Gospel as 'good news for the poor.' -- Raphael G. Warnock,CNNRefusing to be content with the piety or protest divide between the Black Church and Black Theology, Warnock argues with scholarly rigor and pastoral fire for a vital partnership between the two. As a dedicated pastor and astute theologian, Warnock persuasively argues for a fifth movement in the Black Christian traditiona self-critical liberationist community that represents a public theology founded on the pietistic and liberationist dimensions of the Church. This is a must read for clergy, laity, and the academy. -- Emilie M. Townes,Dean and Professor of Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Divinity SchoolThe broadness and depth of Warnock's theological education and his distinguished pulpit give him the authority to ask the question: piety or protest? Warnock leads us through the history of the tensions and conversations among the black church, black theology and black pastors to boldly change this question into an exclamatory indicative: piety and protest. He admonishes all parties to move beyond the silos of their particular perspective to convene for the broader exchange of ideas, enabling us to fulfill our mission of helping to save the black community and the soul of our nation. -- James A. Forbes Jr.,Senior Pastor Emeritus, Riverside ChurchThis contribution to the enduring subject of piety and protest in black theological discourse is of special importance because it is written from the vantage point of one who stands in the gapa competent theologian with a pastoral vocationvalidating his craft in the trenches of social justice advocacy and community transformation. -- Cheryl J. Sanders,Howard University School of DivinityWarnock carefully traces the history and evolution of the independent black church in America, moving from the black church as a bastion against slavery all the way to the role Ebenezer Baptist and other black churches played in the Civil Rights Movement. He asserts that the black church's roots are in the battle for social liberation of black people, rooted in a progressive understanding of the life and message of Jesus Christ. -- Mark Reynolds * Popmatters *
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New York University Press Rastafari
Book SynopsisIlluminates how the Rastafari movement managed to evolve in the face of severe biases Misunderstood, misappropriated, belittled: though the Rastafari feature frequently in media and culture, they have most often been misrepresented, their political and religious significance minimized. But they have not been vanquished. Charles Price's Rastafari: The Evolution of a People and Their Identity reclaims the rich history of this relatively new world religion. Charting its humble and rebellious roots in Jamaica's backcountry in the late nineteenth century to the present day, Price explains how Jamaicans' obsession with the Rastafari wavered from campaigns of violence to appeasement and cooptation. Indeed, he argues that the Rastafari as a political, religious, and cultural movement survived the biases and violence they faced through their race consciousness and uncanny ability to ride the waves of anti-colonialism and Black Power. This social movement traveled throughout the Caribbean, AfrTrade ReviewWell-written and engaging . . . breaks new ground both in the data it analyzes and the theory it advances. Price deftly demystifies the ‘sudden’ appearance of Rastafari by showing how it is rooted in notions of black identity and African redemption. -- Ennis B. Edmonds, Donald L. Rogan Professor of Religious Studies, Kenyon CollegeIn clear prose and with a storyteller’s disposition, Charles Price offers a detailed analysis of the emergence of collective identity of the Rastafari in Jamaica, illustrating how that collective identity is an ever-changing phenomenon, with variations across time and space. Will be a lasting contribution to the field. -- Anita Waters, Denison UniversityFascinating and a pleasure to read. Charles Price makes a distinctive contribution by detailing how a Rastafari cultural gestalt emerges. Price shows how cultural patterns can have multiple origins, influences, and significance. Rastafari is a new and necessary reframing of Rastafari culture. -- Richard Salter, Hobart and William Smith CollegesThis welcome volume explores the growth and persistence of Rastafarianism in Jamaica. Price . . . provides an exceptionally empathetic account of the faith, and in his sophisticated analysis he successfully integrates the 'small acts' of history with the 'big ideas' they have come to signify. * S. D. Glazier, Yale University *
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New York University Press One Faith No Longer
Book SynopsisIrreconcilable differences drive the division between progressive and conservative Christiansis there a divorce coming?Much attention has been paid to political polarization in America, but far less to the growing schism between progressive and conservative Christians. In this groundbreaking new book, George Yancey and Ashlee Quosigk offer the provocative contention that progressive and conservative Christianities have diverged so much in their core values that they ought to be thought of as two separate religions. The authors draw on both quantitative data and interviews to uncover how progressive and conservative Christians determine with whom they align themselves religiously, and how they distinguish themselves from each other. They find that progressive Christians emphasize political agreement relating to social justice issues as they determine who is part of their in-group, and focus less on theological agreement. Among conservative Christians, on the other hand, the major concerTrade ReviewYancey and Quosigk address what makes a distinct, separate religion, as opposed to a variation within a larger faith tradition ... They find that progressive Evangelicals were less comfortable with the descriptor “Evangelical,” and were more apt to make common cause with fellow progressives than conservative Evangelicals and to avoid collaboration even where interests converge. Yancey and Quosigk find that religious motivation also diverges: conservatives ground their actions in their desire to pattern their lives on a biblically derived imperative, while progressives look instead to humanitarian ideals. * Library Journal *One Faith No Longer upends the conventional wisdom that conservative Christians are uniquely prone to falling captive to unbiblical political ideologies, or that conservative Christians are filled with rage toward their theological opponents. Through research and interviews, Yancey and Quosigk demonstrate the opposite: it’s progressives who rarely defy political orthodoxy and who harbor disdain for conservatives. And the hardening lines between these two groups add weight to the thesis of J. Gresham Machen a century ago: when it comes to Christianity and theological liberalism, we really are talking about two different religions. * The Gospel Coalition *Traces the fault lines of an entrenched division in Christian identities between progressives and conservatives, explored in the light of divergent attitudes to Islam and Muslims. The bifurcation runs deep, cutting across long-established identities such as ‘Protestant,’ ‘Catholic,’ and ‘Evangelical,’ to the extent of calling into question the continued relevance of the term Christian as a shared label. The authors’ prophetic thesis anticipates a permanent parting of the ways—one religion becoming two—which will dramatically reshape the role of faith in America’s public life. -- Mark Durie, Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne School of TheologyIn this provocative new book, George Yancey and Ashlee Quosigk boldly argue that progressive and conservative Christians have diverged so much in their politics, theologies, and sources of meaning that we should now think of them as different religions. Bolstered with forensic quantitative analysis and refreshing, original qualitative work, their argument is as compelling as it will be controversial. . . . A must-read for those wishing to learn more about the United States’ ‘culture war’ and the role of religion in it. -- Gladys Ganiel, co-author of The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging ChristianityIn their rigorous sociological account of Christianity in America today, George Yancey and Ashlee Quosigk provide many important insights, particularly in relation to progressive Christians, though overall the book simply confirms the enduring truth that Christians have always disagreed among themselves about faith and politics. -- Lee Trepainer * The Public Discourse *Their book’s central argument is that conservative and progressive Christians have become so different in the ways they determine social identity and moral values that they ought to be thought of as separate religions. This conclusion will ring true for anyone who pays attention to the news. -- The Christian Century * The Christian Century *Yancey (sociology, Baylor Univ.) and Quosigk (visiting scholar, religion, Univ. of Georgia) assert that… it is no longer meaningful to use the rubric Christian to describe both conservative and progressive churches. -- D. A. Brown, emeritus, California State University, Fullerton * CHOICE *
£66.60
New York University Press One Faith No Longer
Book SynopsisIrreconcilable differences drive the division between progressive and conservative Christiansis there a divorce coming?Much attention has been paid to political polarization in America, but far less to the growing schism between progressive and conservative Christians. In this groundbreaking new book, George Yancey and Ashlee Quosigk offer the provocative contention that progressive and conservative Christianities have diverged so much in their core values that they ought to be thought of as two separate religions. The authors draw on both quantitative data and interviews to uncover how progressive and conservative Christians determine with whom they align themselves religiously, and how they distinguish themselves from each other. They find that progressive Christians emphasize political agreement relating to social justice issues as they determine who is part of their in-group, and focus less on theological agreement. Among conservative Christians, on the other hand, the major concerTrade Review"Yancey and Quosigk address what makes a distinct, separate religion, as opposed to a variation within a larger faith tradition ... They find that progressive Evangelicals were less comfortable with the descriptor “Evangelical,” and were more apt to make common cause with fellow progressives than conservative Evangelicals and to avoid collaboration even where interests converge. Yancey and Quosigk find that religious motivation also diverges: conservatives ground their actions in their desire to pattern their lives on a biblically derived imperative, while progressives look instead to humanitarian ideals." * Library Journal *"One Faith No Longer upends the conventional wisdom that conservative Christians are uniquely prone to falling captive to unbiblical political ideologies, or that conservative Christians are filled with rage toward their theological opponents. Through research and interviews, Yancey and Quosigk demonstrate the opposite: it’s progressives who rarely defy political orthodoxy and who harbor disdain for conservatives. And the hardening lines between these two groups add weight to the thesis of J. Gresham Machen a century ago: when it comes to Christianity and theological liberalism, we really are talking about two different religions." * The Gospel Coalition *"Traces the fault lines of an entrenched division in Christian identities between progressives and conservatives, explored in the light of divergent attitudes to Islam and Muslims. The bifurcation runs deep, cutting across long-established identities such as ‘Protestant,’ ‘Catholic,’ and ‘Evangelical,’ to the extent of calling into question the continued relevance of the term Christian as a shared label. The authors’ prophetic thesis anticipates a permanent parting of the ways—one religion becoming two—which will dramatically reshape the role of faith in America’s public life." -- Mark Durie, Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Theology"In this provocative new book, George Yancey and Ashlee Quosigk boldly argue that progressive and conservative Christians have diverged so much in their politics, theologies, and sources of meaning that we should now think of them as different religions. Bolstered with forensic quantitative analysis and refreshing, original qualitative work, their argument is as compelling as it will be controversial. . . . A must-read for those wishing to learn more about the United States’ ‘culture war’ and the role of religion in it." -- Gladys Ganiel, co-author of The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity"In their rigorous sociological account of Christianity in America today, George Yancey and Ashlee Quosigk provide many important insights, particularly in relation to progressive Christians, though overall the book simply confirms the enduring truth that Christians have always disagreed among themselves about faith and politics." -- Lee Trepainer * The Public Discourse *"Their book’s central argument is that conservative and progressive Christians have become so different in the ways they determine social identity and moral values that they ought to be thought of as separate religions. This conclusion will ring true for anyone who pays attention to the news." -- The Christian Century * The Christian Century *"Yancey (sociology, Baylor Univ.) and Quosigk (visiting scholar, religion, Univ. of Georgia) assert that… it is no longer meaningful to use the rubric Christian to describe both conservative and progressive churches." -- D. A. Brown, emeritus, California State University, Fullerton * CHOICE *
£23.74
New York University Press The Myth of Colorblind Christians
Book SynopsisReveals how Christian colorblindness expanded white evangelicalism and excluded Black evangelicals In the decades after the civil rights movement, white Americans turned to an ideology of colorblindness. Personal kindness, not systemic reform, seemed to be the way to solve racial problems. In those same decades, a religious movement known as evangelicalism captured the nation's attention and became a powerful political force. In The Myth of Colorblind Christians, Jesse Curtis shows how white evangelicals' efforts to grow their own institutions created an evangelical form of whiteness, infusing the politics of colorblindness with sacred fervor. Curtis argues that white evangelicals deployed a Christian brand of colorblindness to protect new investments in whiteness. While black evangelicals used the rhetoric of Christian unity to challenge racism, white evangelicals repurposed this language to silence their black counterparts and retain power, arguing that all were equal in Christ andTrade ReviewPowerfully tells the story of how white evangelicals in a post-civil-rights era fashioned an allegedly colorblind evangelicalism ‘in which investments in whiteness continued in the name of spreading the gospel.’ Curtis tells us not so much about white evangelicals familiar from other histories, as about evangelical whiteness, a distinction that makes all the difference in this original and important work. -- Paul Harvey, Distinguished Professor, Presidential Teaching Scholar, University of ColoradoThis book shows how platitudes about equality and not seeing racial differences actually perpetuated the segregated and unequal status quo in many white evangelical churches, colleges, and institutions. It is vital reading for understanding just how salient race remains in some Christian circles. This is the book on the history of white evangelicalism I have been waiting for. -- Jemar Tisby, New York Times–bestselling author of The Color of Compromise and How to Fight RacismReligious history at its best. An immensely clarifying book, it should be required reading for all who seek to understand white evangelicals’ fraught engagement with race over the past half century. -- Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a NationCurtis eschews the world of formal politics and shows how the evangelical gospel of colorblindness was forged in more private spaces: homes, schools, and churches. Particularly interesting is his discussion of how the church growth movement emerged from the context of the civil rights movement. * Christian Century Book Review *
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New York University Press The Myth of Colorblind Christians
Book SynopsisReveals how Christian colorblindness expanded white evangelicalism and excluded Black evangelicals In the decades after the civil rights movement, white Americans turned to an ideology of colorblindness. Personal kindness, not systemic reform, seemed to be the way to solve racial problems. In those same decades, a religious movement known as evangelicalism captured the nation's attention and became a powerful political force. In The Myth of Colorblind Christians, Jesse Curtis shows how white evangelicals' efforts to grow their own institutions created an evangelical form of whiteness, infusing the politics of colorblindness with sacred fervor. Curtis argues that white evangelicals deployed a Christian brand of colorblindness to protect new investments in whiteness. While black evangelicals used the rhetoric of Christian unity to challenge racism, white evangelicals repurposed this language to silence their black counterparts and retain power, arguing that all were equal in Christ andTrade ReviewPowerfully tells the story of how white evangelicals in a post-civil-rights era fashioned an allegedly colorblind evangelicalism ‘in which investments in whiteness continued in the name of spreading the gospel.’ Curtis tells us not so much about white evangelicals familiar from other histories, as about evangelical whiteness, a distinction that makes all the difference in this original and important work. -- Paul Harvey, Distinguished Professor, Presidential Teaching Scholar, University of ColoradoThis book shows how platitudes about equality and not seeing racial differences actually perpetuated the segregated and unequal status quo in many white evangelical churches, colleges, and institutions. It is vital reading for understanding just how salient race remains in some Christian circles. This is the book on the history of white evangelicalism I have been waiting for. -- Jemar Tisby, New York Times–bestselling author of The Color of Compromise and How to Fight RacismReligious history at its best. An immensely clarifying book, it should be required reading for all who seek to understand white evangelicals’ fraught engagement with race over the past half century. -- Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a NationCurtis eschews the world of formal politics and shows how the evangelical gospel of colorblindness was forged in more private spaces: homes, schools, and churches. Particularly interesting is his discussion of how the church growth movement emerged from the context of the civil rights movement. * Christian Century Book Review *In six tightly paced chapters, plus an introduction and conclusion, Curtis details the origins of evangelical colorblindness and how it manifested itself in the movement’s core institutions… he has written a powerful and provocative book that raises deep questions about the very nature of American evangelicalism. * Reading Religion *
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New York University Press Muslim American Politics and the Future of US
Book SynopsisReveals the important role of Muslim Americans in American politics Since the 1950s, and especially in the post-9/11 era, Muslim Americans have played outsized roles in US politics, sometimes as political dissidents and sometimes as political insiders. However, more than at any other moment in history, Muslim Americans now stand at the symbolic center of US politics and public life. This volume argues that the future of American democracy depends on whether Muslim Americans are able to exercise their political rights as citizens and whether they can find acceptance as social equals. Many believe that, over time, Muslim Americans will be accepted just as other religious minorities have been. Yet Curtis contends that this belief overlooks the real barrier to their full citizenship, which is political rather than cultural. The dominant form of American liberalism has prevented the political assimilation of American Muslims, even while leaders from Eisenhower to Obama have offered rhetoricTrade Review"Argues that full cultural and social citizenship has not yet been achieved, yet Muslim Americans matter to key events and ideas in modern America." -- Kathleen Moore,University of California, Santa Barbara"Reminding us that the Nation of Islam and Malik El-Shabazz are the predecessors of the contemporary landscape of Muslim politics, Curtis describes the challenges to liberalism and American empire that came through the forging of an Islamic liberation theology. Written by one of the leading scholars of Muslim history in the United States, this is an urgent book for our time." -- Junaid Rana,Author of Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora"[Curtis] explores this theme with accessible personal stories, including the evolution of Malcolm X into Malik Shabazz, the stories of four Muslim American women, the deaths of Muslim American soldiers Corporal Kareem Khan and Captain Humayun Khan, and dissident activist Linda Sarsour." * Choice *
£18.89
New York University Press White Christian Privilege
Book SynopsisExposes the invisible ways in which white Christian privilege disadvantages racial and religious minorities in AmericaThe United States is recognized as the most religiously diverse country in the world, and yet its laws and customs, which many have come to see as normal features of American life, actually keep the Constitutional ideal of religious freedom for all from becoming a reality. Christian beliefs, norms, and practices infuse our society; they are embedded in our institutions, creating the structures and expectations that define the idea of Americanness. Religious minorities still struggle for recognition and for the opportunity to be treated as fully and equally legitimate members of American society. From the courtroom to the classroom, their scriptures and practices are viewed with suspicion, and bias embedded in centuries of Supreme Court rulings create structural disadvantages that endure today. In White Christian Privilege, Khyati Y. Joshi traces Christianity's influenceTrade Review"Looking at America’s history—including slavery and westward expansion—White Christian Privilege explores how Christian privilege and white racial norms impact the lives of all Americans. The book demonstrates how Christian beliefs have been built into the Constitution and beyond, and the sometimes subtle and overlooked ramifications it has for religious minorities." * Publishers Weekly *"'In order to form a more perfect Union,' books such as White Christian Privilege add enormous value to highlighting the gap between illusion and reality." * New York Journal of Books *"Joshi explores the structures of white Christian privilege embedded in American institutions, laws, and culture ... insightful ... outlines examples of those who have the privilege but are blind to it, and some of the inequities suffered by uneven privilege. Recommended for readers interested in historical roots of religious freedom." * Library Journal *"From the first page of White Christian Privilege, Khyati Joshi makes it plain that she is not interested in euphemizing. Nor is she interested in gently nudging her audience— one comprised at least in part by, if not mostly by, the people whose privilege she is illuminating— into a more aware mindset. Instead, Joshi wastes no time by acknowledging the truth." * Englewood Review of Books *"By the time you have finished reading Khyati Joshi’s first chapter, in which she defines such things as 'separation of Church and State' and 'secularization' as optical illusions to mask the overwhelming dominance of Christianity in American culture, you wonder if you might have stumbled upon a gem. By the time you are finished, you might find yourself wondering if you’ve finished a new classic." * Journal of Interreligious Studies *"Books that unpack problems in and questions about religion and race always feel timely in America; however, Joshi’s intersectional and social justice-grounded approach makes this a necessary read for those who desire a more just America. The book’s accessibility for students and the general public make its contribution all the stronger and more important" * Religions Journal *"Joshi explores how Christian privilege and White racial norms affect the lives of all Americans, often in subtle ways that society overlooks. By shining a light on the inequalities these privileges create, Joshi points the way forward, urging readers to help remake America as a diverse democracy with a commitment to true religious freedom." * Anthropology Book Forum *"Insightful and provocative. Taking a social justice approach, this timely book explores how Christianity has been leveraged to maintain and reproduce structures of domination and subordination, a discussion that is much needed and most welcome as debates about borders, migrants, and citizenship inflect public policy and civic engagement." -- Zayn Kassam, John Knox McLean Professor of Religious Studies, Pomona College"Smart and timely, energetic and approachable, this book is destined to be one of those touchstone texts that finds its way to a varied audience eager both to learn and to make meaningful change in American culture." -- Philip Goff, Director, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis"Illuminates the myriad ways that social structures, individual actions, and cultural assumptions have brought White Christians outsized power and freedom from responsibility. Thoughtful people of all races and faiths need to read and heed her words." -- Paul Spickard, Distinguished Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara"Joshi views subliminal privilege in the common metaphors and underlying assumptions of our society. This privilege is sometimes Christian, sometimes White, and sometimes both. White Christian Privilegesets forth the history and the evidence for this privilege, and then proposes how to change it." -- David R. Blumenthal, Jay and Leslie Cohen Professor of Judaic Studies, Emory University, retired"Joshi’s historical account is one thing, but her ability to bring the reader into her more than two decades of scholarship and practice, offering solutions to long standing issues and concerns within society is some of the most important methodology of the last decade or more. Overall, the book is refreshing, challenging, and timely. The reader should be prepared to experience this book all the way from beginning to end." -- Dr. J Cody Nielson * Journal of Interreligious Studies *"In embracing a head, heart, and hand approach to bringing about religious social justice, Joshi highlights the concept of lived religion—how people within same-named faith communities practice differently, based on personal choice, sociopolitical circumstance, cultural nuance, and other differentiating influences." -- Rosnidar B. Arshad and Christine Clark - University of Nevada * Journal of Church and State *
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New York University Press Smart Suits Tattered Boots
Book SynopsisExplores the complex role that Black religious leaders playor don't playin twenty-first-century racial justice effortsDr. Martin Luther King Jr. along with many of his Black religious contemporaries courageously mobilized for freedom, ushering in the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century. Their efforts laid the groundwork for some of the greatest legislative changes in American history. Today, however, there is relatively limited mass mobilization led by Black religious leaders against systemic racism and racial inequality. Why don't we see more Black religious leadership in today's civil rights movements, such as Black Lives Matter?Drawing on fifty-four in-depth interviews with Black religious leaders and civic leaders in Ohio, Korie Litte Edwards and Michelle Oyakawa uncover several reasons, including a move away from engagement with independent Black-led civic groups toward white-controlled faith-based organizations, religious leaders' nostalgia for and personal links tTrade Review"An excellent analysis of how dynamics such as the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement and a Black Protestant ethic shaped successful efforts by Black clergy in Ohio to get out the vote during the 2012 presidential election. The book also vividly chronicles local tensions between politics and theologies that undermined participation by many of these same leaders with activist groups like Black Lives Matter. Smart Suits, Tattered Boots is a must read for anyone interested in leadership and civic engagement among contemporary Black ministers and the processes that can foster and/or undermine such efforts." -- Sandra L. Barnes, C. V. Starr Professor of Sociology, Brown University"Featuring high quality social science research and drawing richly on a wide and appropriate range of works, Smart Suits, Tattered Boots makes an important contribution to the field." -- Michael Emerson, co-author of Blacks and Whites in Christian America: How Racial Discrimination Shapes Religious Convictions"One must go quite far back to find articles that highlight the impact of Black church leadership (or really any congregational factors) on social movements … That makes the exposure to a top-notch analysis of the kinds of religious actors that Smart Suits, Tattered Boots provides especially important." * Mobilization *
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New York University Press Beyond Doubt
Book SynopsisDemonstrates definitively that the secularization thesis is correct, and religion is losing its grip on societies worldwideIn the decades since its introduction, secularization theory has been subjected to doubt and criticism from a number of leading scholars, who have variously claimed that it is wrong, flawed, or incomplete. In Beyond Doubt, Isabella Kasselstrand, Phil Zuckerman, and Ryan T. Cragun mount a strong defense for the theory, providing compelling evidence that religion is indeed declining globally as a result of modernization. Though defenses of secularization theory have been mounted in the past, we now have many years' worth of empirical data to illuminate trends, and can trace changes not just at a given point in time but over a trajectory. Drawing on extensive survey data from nations around the world, the book demonstrates that, in spite of its many detractors, there is robust empirical support for secularization theory. It also engages with the Trade ReviewSociology professors Kasselstrand, Zuckerman, and Cragun examine the rise of secularization in this edifying entry. The authors draw on rich empirical evidence and careful analysis to make their case, and the global perspective is both ambitious and rewarding. Religion students and scholars will find this illuminating. * Publishers Weekly *Emphatically argues that when empirical measures and rigorous definitions are applied, religion declines. ... The authors take aim at refuting the stances of sociologists Rodney Stark, Peter Berger, Grace Davie, Christian Smith, and others who said otherwise. They also sift through the global survey data on religious beliefs, behaviors, and belonging. From this, they posit that the rationalization and differentiation of modernism has had exactly the effect that secularization theory predicted it would: that religions will decline as societies develop. * Library Journal *Featuring multiple decades’ worth of extensive and comprehensive data, the authors defend and formalize secularization theory in a way that is compelling yet simple. Indeed, Beyond Doubt will be the defining text on the undeniable proof that secularization theory is correct and here to stay. -- Steve Bruce, author of Secularization: In Defence of an Unfashionable TheoryPresents critics’ arguments against secularization theory fairly, yet the case the authors make I think critics will find difficult to reject. This book will make a significant contribution, not just to the sociology of religion, but to anyone interested in the role of religion in society today. -- Jesse M. Smith, co-editor of Secularity and Non-religion in North America
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New York University Press Paranoid Science
Book SynopsisExplores the Christian Right's fierce opposition to science, explaining how and why its leaders came to see scientific truths as their enemyFor decades, the Christian Right's high-profile clashes with science have made national headlines. From attempts to insert intelligent design creationism into public schools to climate change denial, efforts to cure gay people through conversion therapy, and opposition to stem cell research, the Christian Right has battled against science. How did this hostility begin and, more importantly, why has it endured?Antony Alumkal provides a comprehensive background on the war on sciencehow it developed and why it will continue to endure. Drawing upon Richard Hofstadter's influential 1965 essay The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Antony Alumkal argues that the Christian Right adopts a similar paranoid style in their approach to science. Alumkal demonstrates that Christian Right leaders see conspiracies within the scientific establishment, with scientTrade Review"This is a volume for those who seek a better understanding of the USs contemporary cultural conflict." * Choice *"Particularly in today's America, where science, religion, and politics seem so inflammatory, Alumkal's calm voice of reason has much to offer." * Catholic Library World *"Particularly in todays America, where science, religion, and politics seem so inflammatory, Alumkals calm voice of reason has much to offer. Recommended for all libraries." * Catholic Library World *"Alumkals book is troubling and eye-opening." * Church & State *"Paranoid Science is a reliable and insightful guide to the fever swamps of evangelical science denial. A gripping, disturbing, and important contribution." -- Glenn Branch, Deputy Director, National Center for Science Education""A small but highly organized network of conservative Christians maintains a successful pseudo-scientific campaign to challenge established scientific topics including evolution, sexual orientation, bioethics, and climatology that they find threatening to their worldview. Alumkals unflinching critical analysis of their popular writings and educational media provides an excellent window into the political culture and theological motivations, mindsets and machinations within this movement. Fit for the times, Paranoid Science is engaging reading that elucidates the extent to which religious motivations can distort scientific inquiry for political ends. " -- Jerry Z. Park, Associate Professor of Sociology, Baylor University"Alumkal shows that hostility toward science -- including a kind of fearful contempt toward scientists -- is fairly palpable." * Inside Higher Ed *"Through extensive research, Alumkal provides a rich, nuanced, and detailed view of mid-20th-century American evangelicalisms right-wing political expression and its often dangerous impact on science in the service of the common good. His conclusions indicate that when such a powerful paranoia cannot be deescalated, it must be contained. Education and persuasion are the tools for change, and Alumkals book succeeds in both respects." * Publishers Weekly *"Paranoid Scienceoffers valuable insights about the ability of religious and scientific interests to rally public support and potentially influence public policy. It will be of interestto sociologist who study religion, science, social movements and to those interested in any of the four historical episodes that organize the books empirical chapters." * Sociology of Religion *"Alumkal pulls no punches here… Alumkal’s book deserves a place in the book collections of scholars of the Christian Right... There is much here that furthers our knowledge of a complicated and controversial political movement" -- American Journal of Sociology"An important and timely book." * Nova Religio *"Alumkal’s text is about the beliefs, politics, and propaganda of the Evangelical Right in American Christianity [...] Paranoia is the leitmotif that links the 4 chapters of this book." * IEEE Technology and Society Magazine *
£66.60
New York University Press Whispers in the Pews
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New York University Press Whispers in the Pews
£21.84
New York University Press Reconfiguring Refugees
Book SynopsisShows how domestic identity narratives and political polarization shape the sociopolitical response to refugeesThe United States once played a major role in global refugee resettlement, accounting for nearly two-thirds of all refugees resettled worldwide. However, in recent years, it has dramatically cut refugee admissions and implemented discriminatory policies on refugee protection. These policies have been justified amid intensifying xenophobic rhetoric against specific groups.In this book, Alise Coen explains why the monumental shift around refugee resettlement occurred, particularly in response to the high-profile conflict in Syria. She shows how refugeesand broader global migration debatesbecame contentious political issues in the US, revealing the many ways in which refugees have been increasingly weaponized as partisan symbols by Democrats and Republicans. The book calls attention to the power of rhetoric and identity narratives, and shows how the language
£62.90
New York University Press Reconfiguring Refugees
Book SynopsisShows how domestic identity narratives and political polarization shape the sociopolitical response to refugeesThe United States once played a major role in global refugee resettlement, accounting for nearly two-thirds of all refugees resettled worldwide. However, in recent years, it has dramatically cut refugee admissions and implemented discriminatory policies on refugee protection. These policies have been justified amid intensifying xenophobic rhetoric against specific groups.In this book, Alise Coen explains why the monumental shift around refugee resettlement occurred, particularly in response to the high-profile conflict in Syria. She shows how refugeesand broader global migration debatesbecame contentious political issues in the US, revealing the many ways in which refugees have been increasingly weaponized as partisan symbols by Democrats and Republicans. The book calls attention to the power of rhetoric and identity narratives, and shows how the language
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New York University Press White Christian Privilege
Book SynopsisExposes the invisible ways in which white Christian privilege disadvantages racial and religious minorities in AmericaThe United States is recognized as the most religiously diverse country in the world, and yet its laws and customs, which many have come to see as normal features of American life, actually keep the Constitutional ideal of religious freedom for all from becoming a reality. Christian beliefs, norms, and practices infuse our society; they are embedded in our institutions, creating the structures and expectations that define the idea of Americanness. Religious minorities still struggle for recognition and for the opportunity to be treated as fully and equally legitimate members of American society. From the courtroom to the classroom, their scriptures and practices are viewed with suspicion, and bias embedded in centuries of Supreme Court rulings create structural disadvantages that endure today. In White Christian Privilege, Khyati Y. Joshi traces Christianity's influenceTrade ReviewLooking at America’s history—including slavery and westward expansion—White Christian Privilege explores how Christian privilege and white racial norms impact the lives of all Americans. The book demonstrates how Christian beliefs have been built into the Constitution and beyond, and the sometimes subtle and overlooked ramifications it has for religious minorities. * Publishers Weekly *'In order to form a more perfect Union,' books such as White Christian Privilege add enormous value to highlighting the gap between illusion and reality. * New York Journal of Books *Joshi explores the structures of white Christian privilege embedded in American institutions, laws, and culture ... insightful ... outlines examples of those who have the privilege but are blind to it, and some of the inequities suffered by uneven privilege. Recommended for readers interested in historical roots of religious freedom. * Library Journal *From the first page of White Christian Privilege, Khyati Joshi makes it plain that she is not interested in euphemizing. Nor is she interested in gently nudging her audience— one comprised at least in part by, if not mostly by, the people whose privilege she is illuminating— into a more aware mindset. Instead, Joshi wastes no time by acknowledging the truth. * Englewood Review of Books *By the time you have finished reading Khyati Joshi’s first chapter, in which she defines such things as 'separation of Church and State' and 'secularization' as optical illusions to mask the overwhelming dominance of Christianity in American culture, you wonder if you might have stumbled upon a gem. By the time you are finished, you might find yourself wondering if you’ve finished a new classic. * Journal of Interreligious Studies *Books that unpack problems in and questions about religion and race always feel timely in America; however, Joshi’s intersectional and social justice-grounded approach makes this a necessary read for those who desire a more just America. The book’s accessibility for students and the general public make its contribution all the stronger and more important * Religions Journal *Joshi explores how Christian privilege and White racial norms affect the lives of all Americans, often in subtle ways that society overlooks. By shining a light on the inequalities these privileges create, Joshi points the way forward, urging readers to help remake America as a diverse democracy with a commitment to true religious freedom. * Anthropology Book Forum *Insightful and provocative. Taking a social justice approach, this timely book explores how Christianity has been leveraged to maintain and reproduce structures of domination and subordination, a discussion that is much needed and most welcome as debates about borders, migrants, and citizenship inflect public policy and civic engagement. -- Zayn Kassam, John Knox McLean Professor of Religious Studies, Pomona CollegeSmart and timely, energetic and approachable, this book is destined to be one of those touchstone texts that finds its way to a varied audience eager both to learn and to make meaningful change in American culture. -- Philip Goff, Director, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Indiana University-Purdue University IndianapolisIlluminates the myriad ways that social structures, individual actions, and cultural assumptions have brought White Christians outsized power and freedom from responsibility. Thoughtful people of all races and faiths need to read and heed her words. -- Paul Spickard, Distinguished Professor of History, University of California, Santa BarbaraJoshi views subliminal privilege in the common metaphors and underlying assumptions of our society. This privilege is sometimes Christian, sometimes White, and sometimes both. White Christian Privilegesets forth the history and the evidence for this privilege, and then proposes how to change it. -- David R. Blumenthal, Jay and Leslie Cohen Professor of Judaic Studies, Emory University, retiredJoshi’s historical account is one thing, but her ability to bring the reader into her more than two decades of scholarship and practice, offering solutions to long standing issues and concerns within society is some of the most important methodology of the last decade or more. Overall, the book is refreshing, challenging, and timely. The reader should be prepared to experience this book all the way from beginning to end. -- Dr. J Cody Nielson * Journal of Interreligious Studies *In embracing a head, heart, and hand approach to bringing about religious social justice, Joshi highlights the concept of lived religion—how people within same-named faith communities practice differently, based on personal choice, sociopolitical circumstance, cultural nuance, and other differentiating influences. -- Rosnidar B. Arshad and Christine Clark - University of Nevada * Journal of Church and State *
£66.60
New York University Press Religion and Progressive Activism
Book SynopsisNew stories about religiously motivated progressive activism challenge common understandings of the American political landscape.To many mainstream-media saturated Americans, the terms progressive and religious may not seem to go hand-in-hand. As religion is usually tied to conservatism, an important way in which religion and politics intersect is being overlooked. Religion and Progressive Activism focuses on this significant intersection, revealing that progressive religious activists are a driving force in American public life, involved in almost every political issue or area of public concern. This volume brings together leading experts who dissect and analyze the inner worlds and public strategies of progressive religious activists from the local to the transnational level. It provides insight into documented trends, reviews overlooked case studies, and assesses the varied ways in which progressive religion forces us to deconstruct common political binaries suTrade ReviewConsisted of helpful introductory and concluding essays as well as 15 wide-ranging and engagingly written contributions from knowledgeable scholars, this volume greatly enhances our understanding of progressive religion’s role in American politics today… I know of no book—in terms of topic, breath, and acuity of analysis—quite like this one. At seemingly every turn, I learned something new. -- Journal for the Scientific Study of ReligionOn its main premise, the book is successful: readers will be convinced of the existence of a religious Left. Pockets of progressive religion and its carriers sit in churches, on the border, in suburbia, on buses, in campaigns, and more. But the books longest-lasting success may resound even more so from contributors efforts to expose the undergirdingstructuresof modern religion in action. * Sociology of Religion *In this edited volume, the authors do a great service to scholars of religion and social change by bringing needed attention to the often invisible religious underpinnings of progressive civic and political engagement. In response to the media’s commonplace portrayal of religious politics as that of the Religious Right, which is often shown in contrast to the secular Left, these authors showcase various examples of religiously influenced progressive activism. They map out key contours of this often unrecognized field, showing how progressive religious activism is influenced both by the secular Left and religious Right, yet distinctive from each of these groups in pursuing change through religiously inspired activism to address stratification and inequality in American society. -- Review of Religious ResearchAn edited volume by two rising stars in the sociology of religion, Ruth Braunstein and Todd Fuist, and an eminent scholar in the same field, Rhys Williams, Religion and Progressive Activism does not disappoint with its exploration of the role progressive religion has played in past and contemporary social movements. Many of its contributors are among the top scholars in the sub-discipline. As a whole, the volume assesses the political and intellectual conditions under which progressive religious activism has abated as a socio-political force. It attempts to come to terms with what exactly is progressive religious activism. It identifies the causal factors behind progressive religious mobilization. The book also explores a variety of contemporary cases in an effort to understand the factors that potentially facilitate and impede its political constancy and expression. -- Critical Research on ReligionThis commendable collection, centered on sociological analyses of left-liberal Christians, makes a timely intervention into debates about religion in the United States. Its strongest takeaway arguments are: (1) to remind anyone who may need reminding that left-of-center Christian activism has not lost its salience and potential, however much it is discounted by the media or scholarly fashions; (2) to critique culture war analyses in which religion is mainly on the right and progressives are mainly non-religious—and by extension to revise sociological frames that approach religious activism in ways that make more sense for the right than the left; and (3) to document activism, especially in the two forms most valorized here: Faith Based Community Organizations (FBCOs) in Saul Alinsky’s tradition, and work related to immigrant rights. -- Reading ReligionMuch of our current understanding of religion and politics is based on studies of the activism of conservative, even extremist forms of religious practice. But historically that is not necessarily the most important connection. In the 19th Century progressive religious groups were instrumental to abolitionist and woman's suffrage movements. And in the current context religious groups have a leading role in many struggles for justice. Braunstein, Fuist, and Williams' volume brings together some leading scholars of religion to look at some of the most important cases and theorize what they mean for our understanding of religion and social activism. -- David Smilde,Charles A and Leo M Favrot Professor of Social Relations, Tulane UniversitySocial scientists have invested a great deal of energy in trying to understand the religious right, but not nearly enough time and effort has been devoted to the crucial role, in our past and present, of the religious left. This book is thus an enormous contribution and a groundbreaking work. This timely volume shatters the myth of the religious rights monopoly on faith-based political activism. While acknowledging the difficulties confronted by religious liberals in organizing for social justice, the authors provide a wealth of new evidence-based insights about how to strengthen the progressive religious movement at a time when its witness is badly needed. -- E.J. Dionne Jr.,Author of Why the Right Went Wrong
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New York University Press Paranoid Science
Book SynopsisExplores the Christian Right's fierce opposition to science, explaining how and why its leaders came to see scientific truths as their enemyFor decades, the Christian Right's high-profile clashes with science have made national headlines. From attempts to insert intelligent design creationism into public schools to climate change denial, efforts to cure gay people through conversion therapy, and opposition to stem cell research, the Christian Right has battled against science. How did this hostility begin and, more importantly, why has it endured?Antony Alumkal provides a comprehensive background on the war on sciencehow it developed and why it will continue to endure. Drawing upon Richard Hofstadter's influential 1965 essay The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Antony Alumkal argues that the Christian Right adopts a similar paranoid style in their approach to science. Alumkal demonstrates that Christian Right leaders see conspiracies within the scientific establishment, with scientTrade Review"This is a volume for those who seek a better understanding of the USs contemporary cultural conflict." * Choice *"Particularly in today's America, where science, religion, and politics seem so inflammatory, Alumkal's calm voice of reason has much to offer." * Catholic Library World *"Particularly in todays America, where science, religion, and politics seem so inflammatory, Alumkals calm voice of reason has much to offer. Recommended for all libraries." * Catholic Library World *"Alumkals book is troubling and eye-opening." * Church & State *"Paranoid Science is a reliable and insightful guide to the fever swamps of evangelical science denial. A gripping, disturbing, and important contribution." -- Glenn Branch, Deputy Director, National Center for Science Education""A small but highly organized network of conservative Christians maintains a successful pseudo-scientific campaign to challenge established scientific topics including evolution, sexual orientation, bioethics, and climatology that they find threatening to their worldview. Alumkals unflinching critical analysis of their popular writings and educational media provides an excellent window into the political culture and theological motivations, mindsets and machinations within this movement. Fit for the times, Paranoid Science is engaging reading that elucidates the extent to which religious motivations can distort scientific inquiry for political ends. " -- Jerry Z. Park, Associate Professor of Sociology, Baylor University"Alumkal shows that hostility toward science -- including a kind of fearful contempt toward scientists -- is fairly palpable." * Inside Higher Ed *"Through extensive research, Alumkal provides a rich, nuanced, and detailed view of mid-20th-century American evangelicalisms right-wing political expression and its often dangerous impact on science in the service of the common good. His conclusions indicate that when such a powerful paranoia cannot be deescalated, it must be contained. Education and persuasion are the tools for change, and Alumkals book succeeds in both respects." * Publishers Weekly *"Paranoid Scienceoffers valuable insights about the ability of religious and scientific interests to rally public support and potentially influence public policy. It will be of interestto sociologist who study religion, science, social movements and to those interested in any of the four historical episodes that organize the books empirical chapters." * Sociology of Religion *"Alumkal pulls no punches here… Alumkal’s book deserves a place in the book collections of scholars of the Christian Right... There is much here that furthers our knowledge of a complicated and controversial political movement" -- American Journal of Sociology"An important and timely book." * Nova Religio *"Alumkal’s text is about the beliefs, politics, and propaganda of the Evangelical Right in American Christianity [...] Paranoia is the leitmotif that links the 4 chapters of this book." * IEEE Technology and Society Magazine *
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New York University Press The Production of American Religious Freedom
Book SynopsisAmericans love religious freedom. Few agree, however, about what they mean by either religion or freedom. Rather than resolve these debates, Finbarr Curtis argues that there is no such thing as religious freedom. Lacking any consistent content, religious freedom is a shifting and malleable rhetoric employed for a variety of purposes. While Americans often think of freedom as the right to be left alone, the free exercise of religion works to produce, challenge, distribute, and regulate different forms of social power.The book traces shifts in the notion of religious freedom in America from The Second Great Awakening, to the fiction of Louisa May Alcott and the films of D.W. Griffith, through William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes Trial, and up to debates over the Tea Party to illuminate how Protestants have imagined individual and national forms of identity. A chapter on Al Smith considers how the first Catholic presidential nominee of a major party challenged Protestant views aTrade ReviewA bold, surprising, and timely intervention into ongoing debates about the political and ethical dimensions of secularism. . . . Curtis offers a revisionist history that challenges easy readings of American identity and progress and those scholarly paradigms that have made such readings so convenient. Through a series of case studies that span the last two centuries of American life, Curtis demonstrates that religious freedom is a messy business, a tangled skein of sweat and blood as well as malleable concept with viral propensities. In his deft and richly told tale, religious freedom is both the hinge of affective discipline of the nation-state and the grounds for ethnic, racial, and gendered forms of collective identity within; religious freedom is both the modus operandi of whiteness as well as the source of its potential undoing. The Production of American Religious Freedom is an exceptional and elegantly conceived project. It will change the way in which scholars of American religion and politics approach the concept of religion, in general, and where and how they locate it within history. -- John Modern,Franklin & Marshall CollegeAt a moment when scholars of religion are rethinking their contribution to public debate, Finbarr CurtissThe Production of American Religious Freedom exemplifies the power of sustained academic engagement with the assumptions and histories that shape our fractious condition and toxic discourse...Learned, provocative, and interdisciplinary in the best sense, this book is an archaeology of conceptual confusion and a model for new conversations that might deepen our understandings of American religion and public life, historically and at present. -- Jason C. Bivins,North Carolina State UniversityOffers a nuanced understanding of religious freedom. * Choice *Ambitious, and laudably so. In fact, I found myself wondering if the book ought to have been titled The Religious Production of American Freedominstead ofThe Production of American Religious Freedom, since it seems that Curtis wants ultimately to make broader and farther-reaching claims about the views Americans have historically held about their own choices in the political, social, economic, and religious realms. * Politics and Religion *Each chapter, without exception, presents intriguing and provocative insights, raising questions of race (Griffith, Malcolm X), gender (Alcott,Hobby Lobby), science (Bryan, Intelligent Design), and religion more narrowly and institutionally understood (Finney, Smith). Scholars interested in the broad interconnections between the religious and the political particularly scholars with capacious definitions of those two terms will find food for thought throughout. * Politics and Religion *The Production of American Religious Freedomreadslike a collection of meditations on important themes in American religious history that serve as case studies for conceptual problems in the study of religion. * Reading Religion *Curtis work is valuable, spurring readers to interrogate the meaning and application of freedom and its relation to justice. It is also timely, helpfully framing many of the issues pertinent to our times regarding how Americans understand the tradition of religious freedom in daily life. This book benefits historians and laypersons alike as we grapple with what we mean when we claim we are religiously free. * The Journal of Church and State *For all its historical breadth, the book feels extraordinarily timely for our current political moment. The case studies are ripe for use in the undergraduate classroom individually and graduate students would be well served to engage Curtis’s sweeping genealogy of “religious freedom.” Specialists in American religion, religion and politics, or secular studies will find the book well worth their time. -- Religious Studies Review
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New York University Press Spirituality and the State
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the production and reception of nature and spirituality in America's national park systemAmerica's national parks are some of the most powerful, beautiful, and inspiring spots on the earth. They are often considered spiritual places in which one can connect to oneself and to nature. But it takes a lot of work to make nature appear natural. To maintain the apparently pristine landscapes of our parks, the National Park Service must engage in traffic management, landscape design, crowd-diffusing techniques, viewpoint construction, behavioral management, and moreand to preserve the spiritual experience of the park, they have to keep this labor invisible.Spirituality and the State analyzes the way that the state manages spirituality in the parks through subtle, sophisticated, unspoken, and powerful techniques. Following the demands of a secular ethos, park officials have developed strategies that slide under the church/state barrier to facilitaTrade Review"This is a fascinating perspective, especially during the centennial of the NPS." * Choice Connect *"Mitchell seeks to unmask this politics of spirituality so that park users can engage in critical reflection and assume the responsibilities of informed citizenship… Citizens with an interest in public lands management should read this book. In the academic realm, it will be of interest to upper-level students and scholars in religion and ecology, the environmental humanities, and recreation management." -- Reading Religion"Impressively harnessing both historical and ethnographic data, Kerry Mitchell provides a fresh take on the politics of religion-making in America. He offers a counter-narrative to scholarly celebrations of spirituality that is respectful of his subjects and acknowledges the fact that very few of us, if any, have a clear understanding of why we do what we do. Mitchell denaturalizes the concept of spirituality, showing, however, that this mode of piety is not simply made-up. On the contrary, it accomplishes an incredible amount of work in places like the John Muir Trail or Joshua Tree National Park by naturalizing the nation state and socializing the interior states of individuals. This book also generates new insight into what might be called negative aestheticsthat is, how concealment can be revelatory and how the vagueness of nature serves to connect a range of individuals by way of a shared humanity that is rather specifically defined. A must read for anyone interested in American religion in these times of late but ever pressing capitalism." -- John Modern,Franklin & Marshall College"You will never look at National Parks or spirituality the same way again! Kerry Mitchells insightful analysis of the relationship between state-organized nature and individual spiritual experience contributes to our understanding of the entanglements of the secular and the religious. With careful attention to the revelations and concealments of power in the productions of the National Park Service, Mitchell demonstrates how the conceptions and practices of a loosely-defined nature-based spirituality are tied to a pervasive secular ethos that underlies modern American subjectivity and state power." -- Richard J. Callahan, Jr.,University of Missouri
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New York University Press Muslim American Politics and the Future of US
Book SynopsisReveals the important role of Muslim Americans in American politics Since the 1950s, and especially in the post-9/11 era, Muslim Americans have played outsized roles in US politics, sometimes as political dissidents and sometimes as political insiders. However, more than at any other moment in history, Muslim Americans now stand at the symbolic center of US politics and public life. This volume argues that the future of American democracy depends on whether Muslim Americans are able to exercise their political rights as citizens and whether they can find acceptance as social equals. Many believe that, over time, Muslim Americans will be accepted just as other religious minorities have been. Yet Curtis contends that this belief overlooks the real barrier to their full citizenship, which is political rather than cultural. The dominant form of American liberalism has prevented the political assimilation of American Muslims, even while leaders from Eisenhower to ObamaTrade Review"Argues that full cultural and social citizenship has not yet been achieved, yet Muslim Americans matter to key events and ideas in modern America." -- Kathleen Moore,University of California, Santa Barbara"Reminding us that the Nation of Islam and Malik El-Shabazz are the predecessors of the contemporary landscape of Muslim politics, Curtis describes the challenges to liberalism and American empire that came through the forging of an Islamic liberation theology. Written by one of the leading scholars of Muslim history in the United States, this is an urgent book for our time." -- Junaid Rana,Author of Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora"[Curtis] explores this theme with accessible personal stories, including the evolution of Malcolm X into Malik Shabazz, the stories of four Muslim American women, the deaths of Muslim American soldiers Corporal Kareem Khan and Captain Humayun Khan, and dissident activist Linda Sarsour." * Choice *
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New York University Press Religion Law USA
Book SynopsisOffers insight into the complex relationship between religion and law in contemporary America Why religion? Why law? Why now? In recent years, the United States has witnessed a number of high-profile court cases involving religion, forcing Americans to grapple with questions regarding the relationship between religion and law. This volume maps the contemporary interplay of religion and law within the study of American religions. What rights are protected by the Constitution's free exercise clause? What are the boundaries of religion, and what is the constitutional basis for protecting some religious beliefs but not others? What characterizes a religious-studies approach to religion and law today? What is gained by approaching law from the vantage point of religious studies, and what does attention to the law offer back to scholars of religion? Religion, Law, USA considers all these questions and more. Each chapter considers a specific keyword in the study oTrade ReviewThis artfully constructed, richly complex collection does an excellent job of examining the persistent disconnect between scholarly understanding of religion and court cases involving religion. * Choice *Here, we finally have a thoroughly interdisciplinary text that relies on case studies to (1) illustrate significant theoretical insights, and (2) model future work in American religious studies. * Reading Religion *Essential reading for scholars of new and alternative religious movements because the book provides concrete examples of people and groups who do not conform to white Protestant norms. It describes their struggle under the burdens that come as a result of the ways in which religion and law are adjudicated in the United States. The reviewer highly recommends the book to religion scholars in general, legal scholars, as well as graduate students in those fields. * Nova Religio *Religion, Law, USA, edited by Joshua Dubler and Isaac Weiner, explores various terms associated with law and religion…the inquiry has been fruitful…The discussion is detailed and helpful. -- Luke C. Sheahan - Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA * Journal of Church and State *
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New York University Press Religion Law USA
Book SynopsisOffers insight into the complex relationship between religion and law in contemporary America Why religion? Why law? Why now? In recent years, the United States has witnessed a number of high-profile court cases involving religion, forcing Americans to grapple with questions regarding the relationship between religion and law. This volume maps the contemporary interplay of religion and law within the study of American religions. What rights are protected by the Constitution's free exercise clause? What are the boundaries of religion, and what is the constitutional basis for protecting some religious beliefs but not others? What characterizes a religious-studies approach to religion and law today? What is gained by approaching law from the vantage point of religious studies, and what does attention to the law offer back to scholars of religion? Religion, Law, USA considers all these questions and more. Each chapter considers a specific keyword in the study oTrade ReviewThis artfully constructed, richly complex collection does an excellent job of examining the persistent disconnect between scholarly understanding of religion and court cases involving religion. * Choice *Here, we finally have a thoroughly interdisciplinary text that relies on case studies to (1) illustrate significant theoretical insights, and (2) model future work in American religious studies. * Reading Religion *Essential reading for scholars of new and alternative religious movements because the book provides concrete examples of people and groups who do not conform to white Protestant norms. It describes their struggle under the burdens that come as a result of the ways in which religion and law are adjudicated in the United States. The reviewer highly recommends the book to religion scholars in general, legal scholars, as well as graduate students in those fields. * Nova Religio *Religion, Law, USA, edited by Joshua Dubler and Isaac Weiner, explores various terms associated with law and religion…the inquiry has been fruitful…The discussion is detailed and helpful. -- Luke C. Sheahan - Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA * Journal of Church and State *
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Baylor University Press Converts to Civil Society
Book SynopsisCaptures the public ramifications of a personal, Christian faith at the time of Hong Kong's pivotal political turmoil. Whether identifying as Catholic or Protestant, or growing up in religious or secular households, Lida Nedilsky's interviewees share an important characteristic: a story of choosing faith.Trade ReviewNedilsky traces individual developments over time and examines how the entrances and exits involved in religious groups build a sense of agency, adding to the sense of competence and possibility for self-rule. -- Rhys H Williams, Professor of Sociology, Loyola University ChicagoNot only does Nedilsky offer a refreshing look at the role of religion in public life in Hong Kong, she also presents peoples voices and choices in the context of a society undergoing rapid changes. -- Lui Tai-Lock, Professor of Sociology, the University of Hong Kong"Lida Nedilsky gives us the memorable voices of Hong Kong Chinese Christians who are bravely and creatively building bridges between a Western Faith and Chinese political and social realities. With sociological insight she shows us the possibilities and perils embedded in this cultural encounter." -- Richard Madsen, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego...Nedilsky's volume presents a fascinating array of some of the most socially active Christian personalities in Hong Kong during a remarkable period of momentous change. -- Wai Ching Angela Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China -- China Information... Converts to Civil Society is an interesting and valuable study. It has much for general readers, as well as researchers on civil society, Hong Kong politics, and the highly topical issue of the interaction between religion and politics. -- Phil Entwistle -- International Journal for the Study of the Christian ChurchLida Nedilsky's timely and well-written book provides a rich view into the journeys of select individuals as they convert to civil society,expressing their Christian faiths through Hong Kong NGOs. Converts to Civil Society is a focused treatment on an important segment of Hong Kong that cannot be ignored by researchers interested in the public role of religion. -- Alexander Chow -- Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. A Question of Competence 2. Conversion to Christianity 3. Conversion to Civil Society 4. The Work of Civil Society 5. Passing the Torch 6. The Question of Convergence Conclusion
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Baylor University Press The End of Civility
Book SynopsisAnalyses the development of the concept of ‘civility’ as we know it in modern discourse and names some of the criteria Christians can use to judge between healthy and toxic appeals to civility. The challenge, Ryan Andrew Newson contends, is discerning when civility is called for and when its pursuit becomes vicious.Table of Contents Preface Introduction 1. The Genesis of Civility 2. Whose Etiquette? Which Christ? 3. Civil Rites and Uncivil Bodies 4. The End of Civility 5. Agonism, Abolition, Absolution
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Baylor University Press Kingdoms of This World
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Baylor University Press Transpacific Political Theology
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University of Toronto Press The Givenness of Desire
Book SynopsisIn The Givenness of Desire, Randall S. Rosenberg examines the human desire for God through the lens of Lonergan’s concrete subjectivity. Rosenberg engages and integrates two major scholarly developments: the tension between Neo-Thomists and scholars of Henri de Lubac over our natural desire to see God and the theological appropriation of the mimetic theory of René Girard, with an emphasis on the saints as models of desire. With Lonergan as an integrating thread, the author engages a variety of thinkers, including Hans Urs von Balthasar, Jean-Luc Marion, René Girard, James Alison, Lawrence Feingold, and John Milbank, among others. The theme of concrete subjectivity helps to resist the tendency of equating too easily the natural desire for being with the natural desire for God without at the same time acknowledging the widespread distortion of desire found in the consumer culture that infects contemporary life. The Givenness of Desire investigates our paradoxical Trade Review‘This volume is a valuable resource for any scholar interested in the desire for self-transcendence and the natural desire for God.’ -- J.M. Meinert * Choice Magazine *"Rosenberg has achieved something rare: a genuine and sympathetic conversation among neo-Scholastics, Lonergan, Girard, and la nouvelle théologie. The result is a valuable and immensely stimulating book, funded by terrific insight, for a theologically sophisticated readership." -- Jeremy D. Wilkins * Horizons: The Journal of the College of Theological Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements INTRODUCTION PART ONE: DE LUBAC, RESSOURCEMENT, AND NEO-THOMISM CHAPTER 1: De Lubac's Lament: Loss of the Supernatural CHAPTER 2: Ressourcement and Neo-Thomism: A Narrative under Scrutiny, A Dialogue Renewed PART TWO: A LONERGAN RETRIEVAL: PURE NATURE TO CONCRETE SUBJECT CHAPTER 3: The Erotic Roots of Intellectual Desire CHAPTER 4: Concretely-Operating Nature: Lonergan on the Natural Desire to See God CHAPTER 5: Being-in-Love and the Desire for the Supernatural: Erotic-Agapic Subjectivity PART III: MIMETIC DESIRE, MODELS OF HOLINESS, AND THE LOVE OF DEVIATED TRANSCENDENCE CHAPTER 6: Incarnate Meaning and Mimetic Desire: Saints and the Desire for God CHAPTER 7: The Metaphysics of Holiness and the Longing for God in History: Therese of Lisieux and Etty Hillesum CHAPTER 8: Distorted Desire and the Love of Deviated Transcendence CONCLUSION
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University of Toronto Press Undoing Babel
Book SynopsisUndoing Babel is the first extensive examination of the development of the Babel narrative amongst Anglo-Saxon authors from late antiquity to the eleventh century.Trade Review"Major’s surprising larger point [of this work] is how the story of Babel proves less foundational than one would expect…[This] is a detailed study that impressively brings out the handling of [various biblical texts] across a wide range of retellings throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, even as Major convincingly demonstrates that there may be less at stake in those retellings than meets the eye." -- Jonathan Wilcox * The Review of English Studies, New Series, 1-2 *"Undoing Babel, wide-ranging yet everywhere sensitive in its analyses, is a fascinating window not only on the fate of Genesis 10-11 in Anglo-Saxon England, but also on wider movements in the ecclesiastical, political, and literary landscapes, presenting a clear picture of both the idiosyncrasies of individual authors and the ways they fit into broader interpretive trends." -- Matthew D. Coker, St. Hilda's College, University of Oxford * Notes and Queries, vol 66 no 1, March '19 *"[Major’s book] results in a detailed study that impressively brings out the handling of biblical texts across a range of retellings throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, even as he convincingly demonstrates that there may be less at stake in these retellings than meets the eye." -- R. M. Luizza * Journal of English and Germanic Philology, July 2019 *"Undoing Babel offers a substantial contribution to this field. It will be a very useful book for students, too, and will appeal to readers interested in Christian history, in ethnicity, language, and origins in the early medieval period, and in the reception of the Bible in English more broadly." -- Carl Kears, King’s College London * Modern Philology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Genesis 10-11 Introduction 1 Early Jewish and Christian Antiquity 2 Latin Christian Antiquity 3 The Early Anglo-Saxon School at Canterbury 4 Bede and Alcuin 5 Alfred the Great and the Literature of his Reign 6 The Tenth and Early Eleventh Centuries 7 The Biblical Poems of Junius 8 Conclusion Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press Catholic Education in the Wake of Vatican II
Book SynopsisCatholic Education in the Wake of Vatican II is the first work dedicated to the effects of the Second Vatican Council on catholic education in various national and cultural contexts.Trade Review"There are two or three very good chapters on Catholic schools in Spain and France detailing and providing us with valuable historical expositions. The book also addresses some key issues challenging Catholic education and provides some interesting insights." -- James Arthur, University of Birmingham * The Catholic Historical Review vol. 104 no. 2, Spring 2018 *"The chapters of Catholic Education in the Wake of Vatican II are well researched, well written, and have the capacity to significantly augment one’s understanding of the permanent and dramatic change that took place in Catholic education in the twentieth century." -- K.M. Gemmell, University of British Columbia * Historical Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction Rosa Bruno-Jofre and Jon Igelmo Zaldivar Emerging Issues and Approaches in the Analysis of Catholicism and Education: Fifty Years after Vatican II PART I. The Theological Framework: From Objectivity to Subjectivity and the Varied Strands Chapter 1 Michael Attridge From Objectivity to Subjectivity: Changes in the 19th and 20th Centuries and Their Impact on Post-Vatican II Theological Education PART II. The Relationship between Church and State Chapter 2 Bernard Hugonnier and Gemma Serrano Going to the Past: A Longue Duree Analysis of Catholic Education and the State in France Chapter 3 Carlos Martinez Valle Active Methods and Social Secularization in School Catechesis during the Franco Dictatorship (1939-1975): A Transfer in a Cultural System in Change Chapter 4 Pauli Davila and Luis M. Naya Garmendia Turning Need into a Virtue: The Adjustment to the Educational Demands of the Religious Congregations: The Case of De La Salle in the Basque Country, Spain Chapter 5 Rosa Bruno-Jofre The Sisters of the Infant Jesus in Bembibre, Leon, Spain, during the Second Stage of Francoism (1957-1975): The School with No Doors PART III. The Processes of Re-signification of Missions Chapter 6 Rosa Bruno-Jofre and Jon Igelmo Zaldivar Ivan Illich, the Critique of the Church as It: From a Vision of the Missioner to a Critique of Schooling Chapter 7 Elizabeth Smyth From Serving in the Missions at Home to Serving in Latin America: The Post-Vatican II Experience of Canadian Women Religious Chapter 8 Heidi MacDonald Women Religious, Vatican II, Education, and the State in Atlantic Canada Chapter 9 Rosa Bruno-Jofre The Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions (RNDM) in Canada, the Long 1960s, and Vatican II: From Carving Spaces in the Educational State to Living the Radicality of the Gospel PART IV. Changes in Curriculum and the Catholic Classroom after Vatican II Chapter 10 Joe Stafford The Conditions of Reception for the Declaration on Christian Education: Secularization and the Educational State of Ontario Chapter 11 Cristian Cox and Patricia Imbarack Catholic Elite Education in Chile: Worlds Apart PART V: Catholicism and Aboriginal Education in Canada Chapter 12 Lindsay Morcom Balancing the Spirit in Aboriginal Catholic Education in Ontario Chapter 13 Chris Beeman Indigenous Education as Failed Ontological Reconfiguration PART VI: Religious Renewal and Public Pedagogy Chapter 14 William Pinar "The Scandalous Revolutionary Force of the Past": On Pasolini's The Gospel According to Saint Matthew Conclusion Carlos Martinez Valle and Gemma Serrano Conclusion - Catholicism and Education: Points of Intersection, Opposition, and Configuration Contributors
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University of Toronto Press Educationalization and Its Complexities
Book SynopsisBringing a new dimension to the literature on educationalization, this book is grounded in historical research, curricular analysis, and philosophical reflection.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Problematizing 'Educationalization' Rosa Bruno-Jofré, Queen’s University Part One: Contesting Views of Processes of Educationalization at the Intersection with Christianity 1. The Dignity of Protestant Souls: Protestant Trajectories in the Educationalization of the World Daniel Tröhler, University of Vienna 2. Multiple Early Modernities and "Educationalization": Reframing the Confessional Debate on Education, Politics and Religion in Early Modern Europe Carlos Martínez Valle, Universidad Complutense de Madrid 3. Catholicism and "Educationalization" Rosa Bruno-Jofré, Queen’s University 4. Antigonish, or an "Education that is not Educationalization" Adam Josh Cole, Queen’s University Part Two: Catholicism, Spirituality, and Educationalization 5. Educationalization of the Modern World: The Case of the Loretto Sisters in British North America Elizabeth Smyth, University of Toronto 6. Women Religious’ New Educational Approaches in the Global South, 1968-80 Heidi MacDonald, University of New Brunswick 7. The Educationalization Process and the Roman Catholic Church in North America during the Long Nineteenth Century Joseph Stafford, Queen’s University 8. The Educationalization in the Spanish Second Republic and the Expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain in 1932 Jon Igelmo Zaldívar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid 9. Waldorf Education and the Educationalization of Spirituality in the Plural Context in Late Twentieth-century Spain Patricia Quiroga Uceda, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia Part Three: Educationalization and the Right to Education/Schooling 10. Educationalization, Schooling, and the Right to Education Felicitas Acosta, Universidad General Sarmiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina Part Four: Educationalization and Democratic Spaces in the Digital Era 11. Educationalization as Technologization William Pinar, University of British Columbia 12. Countering Patterns of Educationalization: Creating Digital Tools for Critical Evidence-based Thinking Ana Jofré, SUNY Polytechnic, Utica Part Five: Educationalization as a Tool of Colonization and its Counter-dimension in Indigenous Educational Agendas: Limits and Possibilities 13. Educationalization in Canada: The Use of Native Teacher Education as a Tool of Decoloniality Bonita Uzoruo, Queen’s University 14. Indigeneity and Educationalization Chris Beeman, Brandon University 15. Capuchin Missions in Mapuche Territory: The Education of an Original People in Chile from 1880 to 1930 Sol Serrano, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Macarena Ponce de León, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Concluding Analysis: Turning the Problem on its Head: Looking to New Critical Directions Adam Josh Cole, Queen’s University and Ian McKay, McMaster University List of Contributors Index
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University of Toronto Press The Growth of Minds and Culture
Book SynopsisIn The Growth of Minds and Cultures Vanderburg shows how the culture of a society underlies its science, technology, economy, social structure, political institutions, morality, religion, and art.Trade Review"The book is meticulously researched, using extensively the work of Piaget, Kuhn, Toynbee, and Jung among others, as well as the ideas related to open systems theory." -- Dirk Leemans Canadian Book Review Annual "...the very ambition of this book commends it to the attention of anyone interested in the complex relation between modern science and technology, on the one hand, and the traditional notions of culture, society, and history, on the other." -- Hayden White ISIS: A Journal of the History of Science SocietyTable of ContentsForeword Preface Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Our Senses and the World Chapter 3 The Structure of Experience Chapter 4 The Development of Mind Chapter 5 Language Chapter 6 Individual Diversity Chapter 7 Cultural Unity Chapter 8 Culture and History Envoi Notes Index
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University of Toronto Press The Givenness of Desire
Book SynopsisIn The Givenness of Desire, Randall S. Rosenberg examines the human desire for God through the lens of Lonergan’s concrete subjectivity. Rosenberg engages and integrates two major scholarly developments: the tension between Neo-Thomists and scholars of Henri de Lubac over our natural desire to see God and the theological appropriation of the mimetic theory of René Girard, with an emphasis on the saints as models of desire. With Lonergan as an integrating thread, the author engages a variety of thinkers, including Hans Urs von Balthasar, Jean-Luc Marion, René Girard, James Alison, Lawrence Feingold, and John Milbank, among others. The theme of concrete subjectivity helps to resist the tendency of equating too easily the natural desire for being with the natural desire for God without at the same time acknowledging the widespread distortion of desire found in the consumer culture that infects contemporary life. The Givenness of Desire investigates our paradoxical Trade Review‘This volume is a valuable resource for any scholar interested in the desire for self-transcendence and the natural desire for God.’ -- J.M. Meinert * Choice Magazine vol 55:05:2018 *"Rosenberg has achieved something rare: a genuine and sympathetic conversation among neo-Scholastics, Lonergan, Girard, and la nouvelle théologie. The result is a valuable and immensely stimulating book, funded by terrific insight, for a theologically sophisticated readership." -- Jeremy D. Wilkins * Horizons: The Journal of the College of Theological Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements INTRODUCTION PART ONE: DE LUBAC, RESSOURCEMENT, AND NEO-THOMISM CHAPTER 1: De Lubac’s Lament: Loss of the Supernatural CHAPTER 2: Ressourcement and Neo-Thomism: A Narrative under Scrutiny, A Dialogue Renewed PART TWO: A LONERGAN RETRIEVAL: PURE NATURE TO CONCRETE SUBJECT CHAPTER 3: The Erotic Roots of Intellectual Desire CHAPTER 4: Concretely-Operating Nature: Lonergan on the Natural Desire to See God CHAPTER 5: Being-in-Love and the Desire for the Supernatural: Erotic-Agapic Subjectivity PART III: MIMETIC DESIRE, MODELS OF HOLINESS, AND THE LOVE OF DEVIATED TRANSCENDENCE CHAPTER 6: Incarnate Meaning and Mimetic Desire: Saints and the Desire for God CHAPTER 7: The Metaphysics of Holiness and the Longing for God in History: Thérèse of Lisieux and Etty Hillesum CHAPTER 8: Distorted Desire and the Love of Deviated Transcendence CONCLUSION
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University of Toronto Press The Persistence of the Sacred
Book SynopsisFor millions of Catholic believers, pilgrimage has offered possible answers to the mysteries of sickness, life, and death. The Persistence of the Sacred explores the religious worldviews of Europeans who travelled to Trier and Aachen, two cities in Western Germany, to view the sacred relics in their cathedrals. The Persistence of the Sacred challenges the narrative of widespread secularization in Europe during the long nineteenth century and reveals that religious practices thrived well into the modern period. It shows both that men were more active in their faith than historians have realized and how clergy and pilgrims did not always agree about the meaning of relics. Drawing on private ephemeral and material sources including films, photographs, postcards, correspondence, and souvenirs, Skye Doney uncovers the enduring and diverse sacred worldview of German Catholics and argues that laity and clergy had very different perspectives on the meaning of pilgrimageTrade Review“An eminently readable and very fruitful study.” -- Jonathan Sperber, University of Missouri * Catholic Historical Review *“The work offers readers new, engaging ways of thinking about German Catholicism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and provides a glimpse into the world of everyday German Catholics and their attempts to navigate the practice of their religious faith in the modern world.” -- Beth Griech-Polelle, Pacific Lutheran University * German Studies Review *“Offering a tightly bounded history of Catholic pilgrimages to Trier and Aachen, Skye Doney has ably foregrounded how Catholicism in Germany, both as an institutional religion and as a mass movement of millions, sought to straddle faith and empirically-based science.” -- Matthew P. Fitzpatrick, Flinders University * Journal of Religious History *Table of ContentsArchive Abbreviations Acknowledgments Select Dates in German Catholicism: 1813–1939 Introduction 1. What They Practiced: Prayer, Songs, and Processions 2. Modern Miracles 3. The Sacred Economy 4. Rending Religiosity: Johannes Ronge and the 1840s Trier Controversy 5. Clerical Crossroads: Medical Verifiability of the Sacred 6. Historical Authenticity as Presence Conclusion: Verifying Presence Appendix 1: Selected Pilgrim Songs in Translation, 1839–1933 Appendix 2: Daily Pilgrim Totals in 1891 Appendix 3: Daily Pilgrim Totals in 1933 Appendix 4: Holy Coat Songs in Trier Hymnal, 1846–1955 Appendix 5: Pilgrimage Dates Appendix 6: 1933 Trier Pilgrimage Sick Pilgrim Complaints Appendix 7: 1867 Aachen Closing Ceremony Procession Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press The Roman Catholic Church and the NorthWest School Question
Book SynopsisThe separate school question is a continuing controversy in Canada - a variation on the classical issue in western history of church-state relations in education, heightened by the conflict between French and English. In this carefully researched work, Dr Lupul investigates the school question in the North-West Territories in the late nineteenth century before the division of the area into the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. This was an impotant development in Canada's educational, political, and religious history. The last quarter of the nineteenth century was an era of intense nationalism that embraced the political principles of the primacy of the state and the need for a common school system for all children. In the North-West the Roman Catholic Church has exercised a dominant influence on social development up to the mid-1870s , which it was most unwilling to relinquish to the state and its vanguard of Anglo-Protestant settlers. In this scrupulously objective account, D
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Cornell University Press Fragile Conviction
Book SynopsisHow do specific secular and religious ideologiessuch as nationalism, neoliberalism, atheism, Pentecostalism, Tablighi Islam, and shamanismgain popularity and when do they lose traction? To answer these questions, Mathijs Pelkmans critically examines the trajectories of a range of ideologies as they move into the post-Soviet frontier in Central Asia. Ethnographically rooted in the everyday life of a former mining town in southern Kyrgyzstan, Fragile Conviction shows how residents have dealt with the existential and epistemic crises that arose after the collapse of the Soviet Empire. Residents became enchanted by the truths of Muslim and Christian missionaries, embraced the teachings of neoliberal and nationalist ideologues, and were riveted by the visions of shamanic healers. But no matter how much enthusiasm and hope these ideas first engendered, the commitment to any of them rarely lasted very long.Pelkmans finds that there is an inverse relationship between the tenacity andTrade ReviewRooted in the author's deep understanding of Kyrgyz society, this is a complex, well-structured and nuanced text.... Readers will come away from the book with a very clear understanding of modern small-town Kyrgyzstan and the nuances governing its society. * LSE Review of Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Ideational Power in Times of TurmoilPart I: Uncertain Times and Places1. Shattered Transition: The Reordering of Kyrgyz Society2. Condition of Uncertainty: Life in an Industrial WastelandPart II: Dynamics of Conviction3. What Happened to Soviet Atheism?4. Walking the Truth in Islam with the Tablighi Jamaat5. Pentecostal Miracle Truth on the Frontier6. The Tenacity of Spiritual Healing and Seeing Conclusion: Pulsation and the Dynamics of Conviction
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Cornell University Press The Politics of the Headscarf in the United
Book SynopsisThe Politics of the Headscarf in the United States investigates the social and political effects of the practice of Muslim-American women wearing the headscarf (hijab) in a non-Muslim state. The authors find the act of head covering is not politically motivated in the US setting, but rather it accentuates and engages Muslim identity in uniquely American ways.Transcending contemporary political debates on the issue of Islamic head covering, The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States addresses concerns beyond the simple, particular phenomenon of wearing the headscarf itself, with the authors confronting broader issues of lasting import. These issues include the questions of safeguarding individual and collective identity in a diverse democracy, exploring the ways in which identities inform and shape political practices, and sourcing the meaning of citizenship and belonging in the United States through the voices of Muslim-American women themselves.<Trade ReviewThose who are looking at the identity construction and citizenship practices of Muslim-American women will find this book useful for understanding the intersection of religion and politics in the lives of American Muslim women. This book also illuminates several research areas such as American Islam, Islam and politics, and Muslim women in a minority context. * Choice *Featuring interviews as well as quantitative data, this book is an excellent assessment of the experience of Muslim-American women who wear the hijab.... This is an important read for those interested in understanding the unique experiences of Muslim women in America today. * Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual *Offers notable results to interpret the role of religion in the current political environment in the United States. * Reading Religion *This book provides an immense amount of data and is essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of the veil. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Islamic Head Covering 2. Unity amid Diversity? 3. Visibly Different 4. Islamic Ethics and Practices of Head Covering in American Political Life 5. Head Covering and Political Participation 6. Citizenship without Representation Conclusion and Implications
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Cornell University Press Order out of Chaos
Book SynopsisOrder out of Chaos explains why Iraqis turned to the mosque after state collapse. In 2003, the US-led invasion of Iraq destroyed the Bathist state. Despite this the citizens of Basra established predictable routines of daily life and social order as the familiar and customary structures of state-imposed order collapsed. What enabled individuals in Basra to work together to produce order amid anarchy? The answer: the Friday mosque. A week after the regime fell, Shii imams introduced Friday congregational prayers and associated sermons for the first time in most places since the 1950s. These sermons facilitated the spread of common knowledge and coordination, both locally and nationally, and contributed to the emergence of a relatively cohesive imagined community of Iraqi Shia that came to dominate Iraq''s political order.Combining rational choice approaches, ethnographic understanding, and GIS analysis, David Siddhartha Patel reveals the interconnecTable of Contents1. Order, Authority, and Identity 2. The Sanctions-Era Roots of Postinvasion Developments 3. Collapse 4. The Emergence of Local Orders 5. The Geography of Order 6. Ayatollahs' Networks and National Authority 7. The Limits of Sunni Religious Authority 8. Beyond Basra and Beyond Sermons
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Cornell University Press The Basque Seroras
Book SynopsisThe Basque Seroras explores the intersections between local community, women''s work, and religious reform in early modern northern Spain. Amanda L. Scott illuminates the lives of these uncloistered religious women, who took no vows and were free to leave the religious life if they chose. Their vocation afforded them considerably more autonomy and, in some ways, liberty, than nuns or wives.Scott''s archival work recovers the surprising ubiquity of seroras, with every Basque parish church employing at least one. Their central position in local religious life revises how we think about the social and religious limitations placed on early modern women. By situating the seroras within the social dynamics and devotional life of their communities, The Basque Seroras reconceives of female religious life and the opportunities it could provide. It also shows how these devout laywomen were instrumental in the process of negotiated reform during the Counter-Reformation.Trade ReviewScott's deep dive into three centuries of notarial and diocesan archives is truly impressive. Her writing is crisp and concise. Scott admirably succeeds in reconstructing the history of a group of exceptionally autonomous women who found purpose, esteem, and economic stability in the spaces between the religious and the secular. * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *Through meticulous archival research, Scott crafts a compelling narrative of the lives of seroras from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. The varied source materials—church records, criminal records, notarial documents, and legal cases—enable her to piece disparate accounts into a detailed history of how the seroras were critical to local religious life and reform * Early Modern Women *As Amanda Scott's excellent study shows, the seroras reveal how timeless concerns coexist with and extend beyond great institutional change. In this study of seroras, Scott combines discussions pertinent to church reform, alongside institutional, social, and women's history, in order to depict habits similar to but distinct from what many scholars know. This book is an excellent contribution to all those fields, but remains, like the seroras themselves, interesting and valuable as a rare English-language study of early modern Basque life. * Renaissance and Reformation *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Basque Seroras and Lay Female Religious Life in the Early Modern World 2. "Her Duty and Obligation": Selecting and Employing a Serora 3. Local Religion and Tridentine Reform in the Early Modern Basque Country 4. "Nothing More Certain Than Death": Seroras and Their Communities through Their Testaments 5. The Virgin, the Witch, and the Widow: Suspicion and Transgression in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 6. Conflict and Community in the Seventeenth Century 7. From Seroras to Sacristans: Reforms in the Eighteenth Century Conclusion
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Cornell University Press To Bring the Good News to All Nations
Book SynopsisWhen American evangelicals flocked to Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century to fulfill their Biblical mandate for global evangelism, their experiences abroad led them to engage more deeply in foreign policy activism at home. Lauren Frances Turek tracks these trends and illuminates the complex and significant ways in which religion shaped America''s role in the lateCold War world. In To Bring the Good News to All Nations, she examines the growth and influence of Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s, assesses the effectiveness of Christian efforts to attain foreign aid for favored regimes, and considers how those same groups promoted the imposition of economic and diplomatic sanctions on those nations that stifled evangelism.Using archival materials from both religious and government sources, To Bring the Good News to All Nations links the development of evangelical foreTrade ReviewThis work is a welcome addition to the growing literature on religion and US foreign policy. * Choice *To Bring the Good News to All Nations is a thoughtful, lucidly written study of how activist networks are built and exert influence at the nexus of international and domestic politics. The book adeptly treats conservative evangelicals and their beliefs with sensitivity even while still evaluating them critically, providing a model for other scholars interested in similar topics. * Passport *Lauren Frances Turek's 2020 study, To Bring the Good News to All Nations, provides the basis for a more complete and accurate assessment of the inspirations, aims, and achievements of the movement. * First Things *Well researched, insightful, and solidly documented, To Bring Good News to All Nations is a significant scholarly achievement. * International Journal of Frontier Missiology *[T]his volume, which is richly researched and well organized, is a timely and valuable contribution to existing studies on the American Christian Right. * Idées d'Amériques *Lauren Frances Turek's new book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on evangelical Christianity and U.S. foreing relations. * The Review of Faith & International Afffairs *Lauren Turek's To Bring the Good News to All Nations is a welcome contribution to the burgeoning subfield of the religious history of U.S. foreign relations, bringing to light the poorly understood contours of white U.S. evangelical engagement with U.S. foreign policy in the 1970s and 1980s. With impressively detailed and careful archival, textual, and other media-related research, Turek breaks clichés, unlocks impasses, and fills misleading silences in conventional narratives of the rise of the Religious Right. * Church History *Turek succeeds in demonstrating how powerful evangelical networks influenced U.S. foreign policy. The book provides an important analysis of the development of evangelical human rights that is becoming even more relevant as the inheritors of this tradition have taken charge of the State Department. Turek's analysis also suggests the ways that a globally-focused Cold War politics defined white U.S. evangelicalism. * Diplomatic History *Extensively researched and well-written, To Bring the Good News to All Nations makes a convincing case for the role of American evangelicals in international affairs. [T]he book is a wide-ranging work that greatly adds to our understanding of the role of religion in the last two decades of the Cold War. * Religion, State & Society *[The book] is a deeply researched, cogently argued, and utterly compelling study of conservative Protestant 'influence' on American foreign policy. Turek's work is an important reminder to historians of religion that state power, political economy, and international exchange are never absent from religion's work in the world. * Religion *Turek is careful to show that U.S. evangelicals were not mere promoters of American interests overseas. Neither did they always speak in one voice. Turek's book invites readers to take a critical look at the present and future of evangelical human rights advocacy. * The Review of Faith and International Affairs *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Defining and Defending Rights 1. A Global Shift in Missionary Christianity 2. The Communications Revolution And Evangelical Internationalism 3. Religious Freedom and the New Evangelical Foreign Policy Lobby 4. Fighting Religious Persecution behind the Iron Curtain 5. Supporting a "Brother in Christ" in Guatemala 6. The Challenge of South African Apartheid Conclusion: Evangelical Foreign Policy Activism Ascendant
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