Faith In Empire

Author : Elizabeth A. Foster
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804786225

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Faith in Empire is an innovative exploration of French colonial rule in West Africa, conducted through the prism of religion and religious policy. Elizabeth Foster examines the relationships among French Catholic missionaries, colonial administrators, and Muslim, animist, and Christian Africans in colonial Senegal between 1880 and 1940. In doing so she illuminates the nature of the relationship between the French Third Republic and its colonies, reveals competing French visions of how to approach Africans, and demonstrates how disparate groups of French and African actors, many of whom were unconnected with the colonial state, shaped French colonial rule. Among other topics, the book provides historical perspective on current French controversies over the place of Islam in the Fifth Republic by exploring how Third Republic officials wrestled with whether to apply the legal separation of church and state to West African Muslims.

Author : RAHEB
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608334339

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FAITH IN THE FACE OF EMPIRE by RAHEB Pdf

A Palestinian Christian theologian shows how the reality of empire shapes the context of the biblical story, and the ongoing experience of Middle East conflict.

Author : Vincent D. Rougeau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190293260

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Christians in the American Empire by Vincent D. Rougeau Pdf

What does it mean to be a Christian citizen of the United States today? This book challenges the argument that the United States is a Christian nation, and that the American founding and the American Constitution can be linked to a Christian understanding of the state and society. Vincent Rougeau argues that the United States has become an economic empire of consumer citizens, led by elites who seek to secure American political and economic dominance around the world. Freedom and democracy for the oppressed are the public themes put forward to justify this dominance, but the driving force behind American hegemony is the need to sustain economic growth and maintain social peace in the United States. This state of affairs raises important questions for Christians. In recent times, religious voices in American politics have taken on a moralistic stridency. Individual issues like abortion and same-sex marriage have been used to "guilt" many Christians into voting Republican or to discourage them from voting at all. Using Catholic social teaching as a point of departure, Rougeau argues that conservative American politics is driven by views of the individual and the state that are inconsistent with mainstream Catholic social thought. Without thinking more broadly about their religious traditions and how those traditions should inform their engagement with the modern world, it is unwise for Christians to think that pressing single issues is an appropriate way to actualize their faith commitments in the public realm. Rougeau offers concerned Christians new tools for a critical assessment of legal, political and social questions. He proceeds from the fundamental Christian premise of the God-given dignity of the human person, a dignity that can only be realized fully in community with others. This means that the Christian cannot simply focus on individual empowerment as 'freedom' but must also seek to nurture community participation and solidarity for all citizens. Rougeau demonstrates what happens when these ideas are applied to a variety of specific contemporary issues involving the family, economics, and race. He concludes by offering a new model of public engagement for Christians in the American Empire.

Author : Karl Debreczeny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Buddhism and art
ISBN : 0692194606

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Faith and Empire by Karl Debreczeny Pdf

"This catalog is published in conjunction with the exhibition Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism, organized and presented by the Rubin Museum of Art, New York, February 1-July 15, 2019, and curated by Karl Debreczeny, Senior Curator, Collections and Research, with the assistance of Lizzie Doorly"--Colophon.

Author : Geoffrey Parker
Publisher : Allan Lane
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015051562216

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Empire, War and Faith in Early Modern Europe by Geoffrey Parker Pdf

Failure is fascinating, partly because it is so common. In the 20th century, Enoch Powell claimed that All political lives end in failure; while, according the Winston Churchill, Success is never final. This has always been true: Geoffrey Parker's new book examines ten cases, from the history of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, of defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.

Author : Susan George
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429710933

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Faith And Credit by Susan George Pdf

The authors compare the ideologies of the free-market with religious faith, giving the World Bank the role of a secular church setting out to convert the world's underdeveloped economies to the consumer capitalist way, and so to create an enormous secular empire. This book is published in September 1994 to coincide with the World Bank's 50th annive

Author : C. Wess Daniels
Publisher : Barclay Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1594980632

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Resisting Empire: The Book of Revelation as Resistance by C. Wess Daniels Pdf

Revelation speaks to the reality that we are caught in the fray of cosmic conflict. We are guilty. We've already been contaminated. But it's not too late for us to exit empire and enter the kingdom. We are yet both victim and victimizer. We have healing work to do, and we must take responsibility for the ways in which we have benefited from and been complicit with the religion of empire. This is the truth of Revelation. God wants to liberate us in body, heart, soul, and mind.Revelation reveals how scapegoating functions within empire to define its own boundaries and contours as being over and against wicked others.Revelation critiques wealth and shows that even in the first century there was prophetic critique against an economic system that was based on abundance for some, while exploiting the rest.Revelation demonstrates the importance of liturgy as something that forms people into the likeness of either empire or the lamb.Revelation reveals an alternative social order which becomes the center of resistance rooted in a vision of what the book describes as "the multitude."

Author : Edward N. Luttwak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351297981

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The Virtual American Empire by Edward N. Luttwak Pdf

This is Edward Luttwak's third and arguably fi nest collection of essays. In a challenge to the intellectual backbone of those who write about peace as something one wishes into existence through mediation and good will, Luttwak's view of warfare is bracing: "An unpleasant truth, often overlooked, is that although war is a great evil, it does have a great virtue: it can resolve political confl icts and lead to peace." Luttwak articulates positions shared by military fi gures and political heroes who have their feet on the ground rather than in the sand. He shares his thoughts in essays covering America at war and the new Bolshevism in Russia, ranging in place from the Middle East to Latin America and stops along the way to Byzantium. Luttwak examines military reform, great powers grown small, and drugs, crime and corruption as part of the common culture of the West. Th ough his message is sometimes delivered in a light tone, he is never foolish and never trivial. Luttwak develops the bracing thesis that cease fi res and armistices in states of war, while sometimes inconclusive, are lesser evils than prospects for a nuclear meltdown. Even in arenas of geopolitical antagonism, neither Americans nor Russians have been inclined to intervene competitively in wars of lesser powers. As a consequence, intermittent war persists; and greater dangers to the world are averted. It is no exaggeration to compare Luttwak to Clausewitz in the nineteenth century and Herman Kahn in the twentieth century. Th is volume deserves to be read and digested by all who would understand contemporary geopolitics.

Author : Teresa Morgan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191036095

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Roman Faith and Christian Faith by Teresa Morgan Pdf

This study investigates why 'faith' (pistis/fides) was so important to early Christians that the concept and praxis dominated the writings of the New Testament. It argues that such a study must be interdisciplinary, locating emerging Christianities in the social practices and mentalités of contemporary Judaism and the early Roman empire. This can, therefore, equally be read as a study of the operation of pistis/fides in the world of the early Roman principate, taking one but relatively well-attested cult as a case study in how micro-societies within that world could treat it distinctively. Drawing on recent work in sociology and economics, the book traces the varying shapes taken by pistis/fides in Greek and Roman human and divine-human relationships: whom or what is represented as easy or difficult to trust or believe in; where pistis/fides is 'deferred' and 'reified' in practices such as oaths and proofs; how pistis/fides is related to fear, doubt and scepticism; and which foundations of pistis/fides are treated as more or less secure. The book then traces the evolution of representations of human and divine-human pistis in the Septuagint, before turning to pistis/pisteuein in New Testament writings and their role in the development of early Christologies (incorporating a new interpretation of pistis Christou) and ecclesiologies. It argues for the integration of the study of pistis/pisteuein with that of New Testament ethics. It explores the interiority of Graeco-Roman and early Christian pistis/fides. Finally, it discusses eschatological pistis and the shape of the divine-human community in the eschatological kingdom.

Author : Jaś Elsner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108473071

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Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity by Jaś Elsner Pdf

Explores the problems for studying art and religion in Eurasia arising from ancestral, colonial and post-colonial biases in historiography.

Author : Néstor Medina
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004363090

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Christianity, Empire and the Spirit by Néstor Medina Pdf

In Christianity, Empire and The Spirit, Néstor Medina uncovers the interwoven cultural processes that influence how people understand reality, express faith, and think about God. Countering Eurocentric theological articulations, he proposes that the Spirit is at work in the cultural.

Author : Earl Thomas Allnutt Brassey,Earl Thomas Brassey Brassey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:220445327

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Problems of Empire by Earl Thomas Allnutt Brassey,Earl Thomas Brassey Brassey Pdf

Author : Andrew Porter
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 071902823X

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Religion Versus Empire? by Andrew Porter Pdf

This is the only book that addresses the relations between religion, Protestant missions, and empire building, linking together all three fields of study by taking as its starting point the early eighteenth century Anglican initiatives in colonial North America and the Caribbean. It considers how the early societies of the 1790s built on this inheritance, and extended their own interests to the Pacific, India, the Far East, and Africa. Fluctuations in the vigor and commitment of the missions, changing missionary theologies, and the emergence of alternative missionary strategies, are all examined for their impact on imperial expansion. Other themes include the international character of the missionary movement, Christianity's encounter with Islam, and major figures such as David Livingstone, the state and politics, and humanitarianism, all of which are viewed in a fresh light.

Author : Anthony Bianco
Publisher : Crown Business
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998-10
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0812930630

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The Reichmanns by Anthony Bianco Pdf

Bianco's riveting family saga tells "a gripping tale of huge talent, huge fortune, and even huger hubris. . . . A fine, well-researched, and elegantly written book" ("Los Angeles Times Book Review".) 16-page photo insert.

Author : John Dominic Crossan
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780061744280

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God and Empire by John Dominic Crossan Pdf

The bestselling author and prominent New Testament scholar draws parallels between 1st–century Roman Empire and 21st–century United States, showing how the radical messages of Jesus and Paul can lead us to peace today Using the tools of expert biblical scholarship and a keen eye for current events, bestselling author John Dominic Crossan deftly presents the tensions exhibited in the Bible between political power and God’s justice. Through the revolutionary messages of Jesus and Paul, Crossan reveals what the Bible has to say about land and economy, violence and retribution, justice and peace, and ultimately, redemption. He examines the meaning of “kingdom of God” prophesized by Jesus, and the equality recommended to Paul by his churches, contrasting these messages of peace against the misinterpreted apocalyptic vision from the book of Revelations, that has been co-opted by modern right-wing theologians and televangelists to justify the United State’s military actions in the Middle East.