Politics and the religious imagination / / edited by John Dyck, Paul Rowe and Jens Zimmermann

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon, England : , : New York, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 201/.7209
• Soggetto topico: Religion and politics; Political science
• Altri autori: DyckJohn <1951-> (John H. A.) RowePaul ZimmermannJens <1965->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Imagining religion and politics; 1 Imagining the sacred stranger: Hostility or hospitality?; 2 Imagining the catechism of the citizen; 3 Catechizing the secular imagination: A response to Simon Critchley; Part II the religious imagination in american politics; 4 Agents of change: Lyndon Johnson, Catholics, and civil rights; 5 Narrating Desire: The gospel of wealth in Christian America; 6 Green for God: Religious environmentalists in the United States ; 7 Understanding Jewish women and their efforts to secure political powerAppendix A; Part III the religious imagination in global politics; 8 Accommodating the other: Lessons from encounters between Christianity and Confucianism in early modern China; 9 Charles taylor's modernity in a Latin american Catholicism; 10 Telling multiple stories: The BJP's appeal to groupspecific interests and the Hindutva master frame; 11 Crosscutting narratives: Diaspora and indigenous movements among Coptic Christians in Egypt; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Politics and the Religious Imagination is the product of a group of interdisciplinary scholars each analyzing the connections between religious narratives and the construction of regional and global politics, combining a set of theoretical and philosophic insights with several case studies that represent varied geographies and religious customs. The past decade has seen increasing interest in the links between religion and politics, and this edited volume seeks to take religion seriously as a motivator of action. Few studies have attempted to bring together the multi-disciplin
• Titolo autorizzato: Politics and the religious imagination
• ISBN: 1-136-95385-X; 1-136-95386-8; 1-282-62913-1; 9786612629136; 0-203-84922-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791350703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in religion and politics.