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"Prejudice and Religion" published on by Oxford University Press.

En las páginas de Cristianismo y Revolución. El origen de Montoneros (2016) se analizan con rigurosidad el rol que jugó la revista Cristianismo & Revolución (C&R) en la consolidación de un proyecto hegemónico alternativo desde el Golpe que llevó al poder a la autodenominada Revolución Argentina, el 28 de junio de 1966, y la gestación de un discurso legitimador de la lucha armada como método eficaz de resistencia a la Dictadura. Esteban Campos, el autor de la investigación, propone para ello un recorrido por el clima de ebullición y de movilización social que vivió el país entre fines de los sesenta y principios de los setenta1 y que quedó plasmado en la revista a partir de la convergencia en su espacio redaccional (Borrat, 1989) de las luchas de los diferentes actores que gravitaron en el universo social y político de la época. ; Facultad de Periodismo y Comunicación Social

Roney reviews Religion and Politics in Enlightenment Europe edited by James E. Bradley and Dale K. Van Kley.

Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian war was the arena for a dramatic battle between politics and religion in the hearts and minds of the people. 'Fear and loathing in ancient athens', originally published in German but now available for the first time in an expanded and revised English edition, sheds new light on this dramatic period of history and offers a new approach to the study of Greek religion. The book explores an extraordinary range of events and topics: impiety charges and prosecutions; the horrors of the plague; the mutilation of hermai and the profanation of the mysteries; the controversy created by the adoption of new gods; the impressive architectural structures of the sculptor Phidias; the military conflicts of the Peloponnesian war; and the thoughts of the mysterious philosopher Socrates. 'Fear and Loathing in Ancient Athens' will be an indispensible study for students and scholars studying Athenian religion and politics

Anthropological studies of religion have been largely concerned with belief, with ritual, and with the general integrative significance of religious institutions for society. But many issues in the power relations of religious affiliation are still not clear. The political implications of religion involve grave practical as well as theoretical problems. Abstractly, religion and politics are often conceived as opposed; concretely, they interact. While religion can be a powerful political instrument, it can also adapt to political ends and generate its own political structures. In contrast to the broadly affirmative role assigned by anthropologists to religion in society is Karl Marx's thesis of religion as political ideology. Reasons for granting some validity to this position but also for questioning its basic assumptions are given. The whole analysis is illustrated by a wide range of examples, from Polynesian ethnography to the history of Christianity and of Islam, and the situation of religion in modem socialist states.

"Authority, Authoritarianism, and Religion" published on by Oxford University Press.