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Religion Is Made of Stolen Mythologies
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Religion and Realpolitik: Reflections on Sacrifice
In: Political theology, Volume 15, Issue 6, p. 522-535
ISSN: 1743-1719
Religion and power-no logos without mythos
In this book David Martin argues, against Juergen Habermas, that religion and politics share a common mythic basis and that it is misleading to contrast the rationality of politics with the irrationality of religion. In contrast to Richard Dawkins (and New Atheists generally), Martin argues that the approach taken is brazenly unscientific and that the proclivity to violence is a shared feature of religion, nationalism and political ideology alike rooted in the demands of power and social solidarity.
David Martin and the sociology of religion
"David Martin is a pioneer of a political sociology of religion that integrates a combined analysis of nationalism and political religions with the history of religion. He was one of the first critics of the so-called secularization thesis, and his historical orientation makes him one of the few outstanding scholars who have continued the work begun by Max Weber and Emile Durkheim. This collection provides the first scholarly overview of his hugely influential work and includes a chapter written by David Martin himself. Starting with an introduction that contextualises David Martins theories on the sociology of religion, both currently and historically, this volume aims to cover David Martins lifework in its entirety. An international panel of contributors sheds new light on his studies of particular geographical areas (Britain, Latin America, Scandinavia) and on certain systematic fields (secularization, violence, music, Pentecostalism, the relation between sociology and theology). David Martins concluding chapter addresses the critical points raised in response to his theories. This book addresses one of the key figures in the development of the sociology of religion, and as such it will be of great interest to all scholars of the sociology of religion."--Provided by publisher.
Marxism, Religion and the Taiping Revolution
In: Historical materialism: research in critical marxist theory, Volume 24, Issue 2, p. 3-24
ISSN: 1569-206X
This study offers a specific interpretation of the Taiping Revolution in China in the mid-nineteenth century. It was not only the largest revolutionary movement in the world at the time, but also one that was inspired by Christianity. Indeed, it marks the moment when the revolutionary religious tradition arrived in China. My account of the revolution stresses the role of the Bible, its radical reinterpretation by the Taiping revolutionaries, and the role it played in their revolutionary acts and reconstruction of economic and social relations. After providing this account, I raise a number of implications for Marxist approaches to religion. These involve the revolutionary religious tradition, first identified by Engels and established by Karl Kautsky, the question of political ambivalence of a religion like Christianity, and the distinction between ontological and temporal transcendence.
Civil religion and anticlericalism in James Harrington
In: European journal of political theory: EJPT, Volume 13, Issue 4, p. 388-407
ISSN: 1741-2730
In the last few years, there has been a notable surge of interest in the themes of civil religion and the battle against "priestcraft" among historians of political thought. Examples include Eric Nelson's The Hebrew Republic; Paul Rahe's Against Throne and Altar; Jeffrey Collins's The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes; Jonathan Israel's work on the legacy of Spinoza; Justin Champion's work on John Toland; and my own book, Civil Religion. Within the intellectual space created by this recent scholarship, this article focuses on relevant themes in the work of the one of the two thinkers who J.G.A. Pocock identified as most responsible for the "implantation of the values of civic humanism in English political thought" – namely, James Harrington (the other being the 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury).
European Politics Gets Old-Time Religion
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Volume 107, Issue 707, p. 126-132
ISSN: 1944-785X
The reintroduction of religious diversity into European society … is also reintroducing religion, and religiously motivated conflicts, to European politics.
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Religion, Recht, Politik: Reformen des marokkanischen Personalstatuts
In: Informationsprojekt Naher und Mittlerer Osten: INAMO ; Berichte & Analysen zu Politik und Gesellschaft des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens, Volume 11, Issue 44, p. 15-19
ISSN: 0946-0721, 1434-3231
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Modernisierungsgewinner : Religion, Geschichtssinn, direkte Demokratie und Moral
Hermann Lübbe ; Inhaltsverzeichnis ; Volltext // Exemplar mit der Signatur: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- PVA 2004.1684
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