{"product_id":"god-botherers-and-other-true-believers-gandhi-hitler-and-the-religious-right-9781845455125","title":"God-botherers and Other True-believers: Gandhi,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tWhen reason fails to guide us in our everyday lives, we turn to faith, to religion; we close our minds; we reject austere reasoning. This rejection, which is a faith-based social and intellectual malignancy, has two unfortunate consequences: it blocks the way to knowledge that might enhance the quality of life and it opens the way to charlatans who exploit the faith of others. Examining two unquestionable malignancies of “the Christian Right” in present-day politics in the United States and the “secular religion” of Hitler’s National Socialism, as well as the third, more complex case of Gandhi, the author asserts that we need religion, but we also need to make sure it does no harm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eIn this book, which is carefully reasoned, engagingly written, and resolutely grounded in systematic thinking – as well as seething with incredulity towards the politics of faith – one can sense the passion of Bailey’s academic conviction: that questions are the only true formulations of knowledge worth fighting for.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cstrong\u003e  ·  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJRAI\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART I: FAITH AND POLITICS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1. Faith, Reason and Consequences\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThree kinds of faith\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tOnly believe!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tHumanism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tOneness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tA Point of View\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2. Religion and Persuasion in Politics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tReligion and Political Involvement\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Problem of Order\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tWhat should go on and what does go on\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDefining Situations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tInformation Costs: Political Clairvoyance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tCreating Trust\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPersuading Reality-testing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II ANTAGONISTIC RELIGIONS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3. Desert, Marketplace, and Forum\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Religious Right (and Left) Hypocrisy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tRender therefore unto Caesar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tModes of Clerical Involvement in Politics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tAntagonism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tParaclerics: Repenting Religion as a Weapon: Mrs. Schiavo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Religious Mode of Political Persuasion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4. The Need for Enemies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPol Pot and Secular Religion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\t“Ardent and Even Hysterical Passions”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tManufacturing Enemies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tGroup Sentiment and Violence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tHitler’s Faith\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tFascism and Christian Fascism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART III: A RELIGION OF LOVE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5. Gandhi: The Freedom Fight\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Freedom-Fight\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPeacemaking Failures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6. Gandhi's Charisma\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tCalculation Charisma: the Mass Audience\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tCharisma: Elite and Entourage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tSingle-Mindedness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7. Gandhi's Religion and Political Reality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tGandhi and Hitler\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tFaith and Responsibility\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tSecular Disciplines in the Freedom Fight\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tGandhian Morality and “Sectarian” religions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tGandhi’s Universalism and Political Action\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8. The First Cause and the Last Word\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPropagating the Faith\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tWalk Gently\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tMorality and Evolution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tOneness and its consequences: diseducation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tOneness and its consequences: strife ~\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDiseducation and Authority\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tOnly Think!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tReferences\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042978201943,"sku":"9781845455125","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845455125.jpg?v=1750956496","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/god-botherers-and-other-true-believers-gandhi-hitler-and-the-religious-right-9781845455125","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}