Secular Socialists

Author : J.T. Morley
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773593466

Get Book

Secular Socialists by J.T. Morley Pdf

Secular Socialists is a comprehensive history of the NDP in Ontario - and its predecessor, the CCF - from its beginnings in the early 1930s to the contemporary period. It is also a provocative analysis of the survival of the CCF/NDP in the ideologically hostile environment of Ontario. Morley considers the party structure, the ideological forces that have shaped the party platform, the relationship between the caucus and the party executive and membership, the membership and ordinary conventions, and such factional disputes as the expulsion of Communists and the Waffle affair. Morley draws an analogy between the "party individual" and the "human individual." His description of party development has a biographical character and allows an analysis of the complex relationships that exist between the party and the environment in which it grows. That environment, generally the political culture of Ontario, more specifically labelled the union class culture of Ontario, shapes the party's organizational, ideological, and political choices. The author also critically examines several prevailing theories about CCF/NDP development, including the view that over the years the party has consistently drifted towards the right - a view that is specifically contradicted here.

Author : Andrei Znamenski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498557313

Get Book

Socialism as a Secular Creed by Andrei Znamenski Pdf

Andrei Znamenski argues that socialism arose out of activities of secularized apocalyptic sects, the Enlightenment tradition, and dislocations produced by the Industrial Revolution. He examines how, by the 1850s, Marx and Engels made the socialist creed “scientific” by linking it to “history laws” and inventing the proletariat—the “chosen people” that were to redeem the world from oppression. Focusing on the fractions between social democracy and communism, Znamenski explores why, historically, socialism became associated with social engineering and centralized planning. He explains the rise of the New Left in the 1960s and its role in fostering the cultural left that came to privilege race and identity over class. Exploring the global retreat of the left in the 1980s–1990s and the “great neoliberalism scare,” Znamenski also analyzes the subsequent renaissance of socialism in wake of the 2007–2008 crisis.

Author : John Terence Morley
Publisher : Kingston [Ont.] : McGill-Queen's University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0773503900

Get Book

Secular Socialists by John Terence Morley Pdf

Secular Socialists is a comprehensive history of the NDP in Ontario - and its predecessor, the CCF - from its beginnings in the early 1930s to the contemporary period. It is also a provocative analysis of the survival of the CCF/NDP in the ideologically hostile environment of Ontario. Morley considers the party structure, the ideological forces that have shaped the party platform, the relationship between the caucus and the party executive and membership, the membership and ordinary conventions, and such factional disputes as the expulsion of Communists and the Waffle affair. Morley draws an analogy between the "party individual" and the "human individual." His description of party development has a biographical character and allows an analysis of the complex relationships that exist between the party and the environment in which it grows. That environment, generally the political culture of Ontario, more specifically labelled the union class culture of Ontario, shapes the party's organizational, ideological, and political choices. The author also critically examines several prevailing theories about CCF/NDP development, including the view that over the years the party has consistently drifted towards the right - a view that is specifically contradicted here.

Author : Todd H. Weir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107132030

Get Book

Red Secularism by Todd H. Weir Pdf

Illuminates the culture and worldview of socialist secularism and its impact on German history between the Kaiserreich and the Third Reich.

Author : PRAHALAD RAO
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

SECULAR, SOCIALIST & RELIGION IN INDIA - THE MISCONCEPTIONS by PRAHALAD RAO Pdf

Constituent Assembly Debates, which made the Constitution of India, are the original source to understanding how the Constitution was made. The debates are bold and blunt, conducted using soft expressions and language. Rather than reading the Constitution as it is, what we discovered over the last fifty years of its adoption is that it is read differently, suiting the persons of the political parties speaking as they selectively suppress the spirit of the Letters. Terms such as socialist" and "secular were later inserted in the Preamble through the 42nd Amendment in 1976 and that opened up Pandora's box. Unfortunate derivation continued to progress, opening up opportunities to influence the meaning of socialism, secularism, and religion. Politicians didn't even glance at the spirited debates, on how those very words were used to rench the consensus collectively among them. Inequality continued to increase year after year, which should not have been there after the insertion of those words. Politicians and religious leaders at that time considered it more appropriate to convert those words as more relevant terms like religion, caste and creed. There onwards, the country started experiencing a different taste of socialism, secularism, and religion. In the author's view, all such conceptions were solely serving self-interests. This is where we stand today. The author has made a humble effort in this book to highlight the misconceptions of these terms as envisioned in the Constitution. People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is a spiritual and emotional one. Be cautious with what you feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let that fuel propel you into positive metion." - Dr. Steve Maraboli.

Author : Vincent Geoghegan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136709593

Get Book

Socialism and Religion by Vincent Geoghegan Pdf

In the past decade philosophers and political theorists have increasingly pondered the role of religion in a modern secular society, and of the possible value of religion as a resource for contemporary thinking. The global resurgence of a new religious politics – graphically symbolised by 9/11 - has added a new urgency to this project; how is religion to be integrated, and if necessary contested, in such a time? As this study shows, the desire to integrate religion into a ‘progressive’ politics is not new. Providing a comprehensive analysis of the Common Wealth movement, this work seeks to bring together for the first time the religious and political commitments of four of the leading thinkers in the movement, bringing to light the significance of the relationships between them. This study examines at four interwar British radicals – the philosopher John Macmurray, the novelist and sexual theorist Kenneth Ingram, the Science Fiction writer Olaf Stapledon, and the Liberal M.P. Richard Acland – and examines their attempts to develop a socialism that whilst defending the achievements of the secular age was also sensitive to the virtues of religious traditions. Thus it considers Macmurray’s attempt to draw on the seemingly antagonistic traditions of Marxism and Christianity, Ingram’s long struggle to develop a Christian response to ‘deviant’ sexual behaviour, Stapledon’s exploration of a non-Christian religious spirit, and Acland’s journey from liberal atheist to Christian socialist. It then follows the activities of all four in the radical political movement founded by Acland in the midst of the Second World War, Common Wealth, particularly focusing on the positions they took in the serious battles over the function of religion that convulsed the leadership of this body. This work will be of great interest to scholars of political theory, religious studies, social and political thought.

Author : Chapman Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Socialism and Christianity
ISBN : UOM:39015081779731

Get Book

Socialism and the Churches by Chapman Cohen Pdf

Author : Bonnie Cousens
Publisher : IISHJ-NA
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780967325972

Get Book

Secular Spirituality by Bonnie Cousens Pdf

"Can you be spiritual without being religious? Can you be rational and spiritual at the same time? Is there an ethical dimension to spirituality?"--Back cover

Author : Martin Hägglund
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781101873731

Get Book

This Life by Martin Hägglund Pdf

Winner of the René Wellek Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Millions, and The Sydney Morning Herald This Life offers a profoundly inspiring basis for transforming our lives, demonstrating that our commitment to freedom and democracy should lead us beyond both religion and capitalism. Philosopher Martin Hägglund argues that we need to cultivate not a religious faith in eternity but a secular faith devoted to our finite life together. He shows that all spiritual questions of freedom are inseparable from economic and material conditions: what matters is how we treat one another in this life and what we do with our time. Engaging with great philosophers from Aristotle to Hegel and Marx, literary writers from Dante to Proust and Knausgaard, political economists from Mill to Keynes and Hayek, and religious thinkers from Augustine to Kierkegaard and Martin Luther King, Jr., Hägglund points the way to an emancipated life.

Author : T. Ngo,J. Quijada
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137438386

Get Book

Atheist Secularism and its Discontents by T. Ngo,J. Quijada Pdf

Atheist Secularism and Its Discontents takes a comparative approach to understanding religion under communism, arguing that communism was integral to the global experience of secularism. Bringing together leading researchers whose work spans the Eurasian continent, it shows that appropriating religion was central to Communist political practices.

Author : Chapman Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Atheism
ISBN : HARVARD:32044005005970

Get Book

Socialism, Atheism, and Christianity by Chapman Cohen Pdf

Author : Catherine Riegger Harris
Publisher : Warren H Green
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0875274692

Get Book

Karl Marx, Socialism as Secular Theology by Catherine Riegger Harris Pdf

Author : H. Zeynep Bulutgil
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197598443

Get Book

The Origins of Secular Institutions by H. Zeynep Bulutgil Pdf

An original theory and meticulous analysis of how advocates of political secularization emerged historically and why they succeeded in some contexts but not others. Why do some countries adopt secular institutions while others do not? In The Origins of Secular Institutions, Zeynep Bulutgil develops a theory that combines ideational and organizational mechanisms to explain how institutional secularization occurs. She first focuses on why political groups with a secularizing agenda emerge. Her argument is that the circulation of Enlightenment literature among the elite and associations through which the elite could exchange ideas were the main factors that influenced the early emergence of secularizing political movements. She then turns to the conditions under which these movements succeed. Secularizing political groups are at a comparative disadvantage when it comes to recruiting grassroots support because, unlike religious actors, they cannot rely on a pre-existing institutional structure. They become likely to overcome this obstacle if they have time to build a robust organization before religious political movements emerge. Bulutgil supports these arguments by combining statistical analysis of original historical data with comparative analysis of countries in Europe (France, Spain, The United Kingdom) and the Middle East/North Africa (Turkey, Morocco, and Tunisia). An authoritative explanation of why political secularization occurred in some countries but not others, this book will reshape our understanding of an issue of unsurpassed importance for over two centuries: the effects of modernity on politics.

Author : Roel Meijer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136834882

Get Book

The Quest for Modernity by Roel Meijer Pdf

This book analyses the political ideologies of the several highly influential liberal, socialist and communist thinkers, groups and movements which sought to modernize Egypt after World War II. Most of the representatives of these currents intended to transform Egyptian society completely through rapid industrialization, land reforms and economic planning, which would eliminate the peasantry, rationalize the economy and create a new Egyptian citizen who would live 'in accordance with the spirit of the age'. This study explains why and how most liberal and left-wing intellectuals eventually supported the authoritarian modernization programme of the July Revolution of 1952. It gives new insights into intellectual life during one of the most optimistic periods in Egyptian history, a time when Egypt was at the height of its power and believed a whole new future lay before it, uniting the Arab world and joining Asia and Africa in the common struggle for independence and dignity.

Author : Patricia J. Woods
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791473993

Get Book

Judicial Power and National Politics by Patricia J. Woods Pdf

Uses the case of Israel to examine the circumstances that lead national courts to engage heated political issues.