Book Description
This book examines the role religion played in the dismantling of Yugoslavia; addressing practical concerns of inter-ethnic fighting, religiously-motivated warfare, and the role religion played within the dissolution of the nation.
Author : G. Ognjenovic
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,92 MB
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 113747789X
This book examines the role religion played in the dismantling of Yugoslavia; addressing practical concerns of inter-ethnic fighting, religiously-motivated warfare, and the role religion played within the dissolution of the nation.
Author : G. Ognjenovic
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 39,20 MB
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137477865
(Ab)use of religion as a political means to an end: the achievement of nationalist political goals, analyzing 'how' through which mechanisms this phenomenon has been and still is practiced in South-Eastern Europe.
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Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,63 MB
Release : 1996
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Author : Gustavo Benavides
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,73 MB
Release : 1989-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791400272
This book explores the interaction between two of the most charged topics in the modern world, religion and politics. It shows the inextricable connection between religious attitudes and representations, and political activities. After an introductory chapter explores theoretically the religious articulations of political power, the authors examine the role played by religion in the current political situation in several countries. Approaching these cases as anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and political scientists, the authors make visible the dialectical relationship between religion and the pursuit of political poweron the one hand, the political significance of religious choices, and on the other, the almost unavoidable need to articulate in religious terms a groups attempt to acquire, maintain, or expand political power.
Author : Frederick William Dillistone
Publisher : Crossroad Publishing Company
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,46 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Christian art and symbolism
ISBN : 9780824507848
Author : Frederick William Dillistone
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 16,44 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Reference
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Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 2021-06-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781032086651
Symbolism and Politics is a timely intervention into ongoing debates around the function of political symbols in a historical period characterized by volatile electoral behaviour, fragmented societies in search of collective identifications, and increasingly polarized political models. Symbols are central features of organized human life, helping to define perception, shaping the way we view the world and understand what goes on within it. But, despite this key role in shaping understanding, there is never a single interpretation of a symbol that everyone within the community will accept, and the way in which symbols can mobilize antagonistic political factions demonstrates that they are as much a central element in power struggles as they are avenues to facilitate processes of identification. This dual potential is the object of discussion in the chapters of this book, which sheds new light on our understanding of the political function of symbols in a historical period. Symbolism and Politics will be of great interest to scholars working on Political Symbols, Nationalism, Regime Change and Political Transitions. The chapters originally published as a special issue of Politics, Religion & Ideology.
Author : Emilio Gentile
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 21,31 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1400827213
Emilio Gentile, an internationally renowned authority on fascism and totalitarianism, argues that politics over the past two centuries has often taken on the features of religion, claiming as its own the prerogative of defining the fundamental purpose and meaning of human life. Secular political entities such as the nation, the state, race, class, and the party became the focus of myths, rituals, and commandments and gradually became objects of faith, loyalty, and reverence. Gentile examines this "sacralization of politics," as he defines it, both historically and theoretically, seeking to identify the different ways in which political regimes as diverse as fascism, communism, and liberal democracy have ultimately depended, like religions, on faith, myths, rites, and symbols. Gentile maintains that the sacralization of politics as a modern phenomenon is distinct from the politicization of religion that has arisen from militant religious fundamentalism. Sacralized politics may be democratic, in the form of a civil religion, or it may be totalitarian, in the form of a political religion. Using this conceptual distinction, and moving from America to Europe, and from Africa to Asia, Gentile presents a unique comparative history of civil and political religions from the American and French Revolutions, through nationalism and socialism, democracy and totalitarianism, fascism and communism, up to the present day. It is also a fascinating book for understanding the sacralization of politics after 9/11.
Author : Emile Sahliyeh
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 1990-08-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1438418477
This book examines the highly politicized religious groups and movements that have surfaced since the late 1970s in the United States, Central America, South Africa, the Philippines, India, and the Middle East. Sahliyeh and others analyze this trend toward the politicization of religious conservatism and question a number of assumptions central to concepts of modernization. For example, it has been assumed by development theorists that the interrelated components of modernization would enhance the trend toward secularization of societies. This book shows that in many societies today religious revivalism and fundamentalism seem to be direct products of modernization. A global, comparative approach is utilized to formulate general explanations for religious revivalism and its implications for modernization, development, and politics.
Author : Rollo May
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 14,88 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
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ISBN : 9781258045388