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Intro -- Half title -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Spirit of Brotherhood: Foundations of British Christian Socialism -- 2 Identity Crisis: Christian Socialism in Post-War Britain -- 3 A Hostile Environment: Religious Socialism in Europe -- 4 What Would Jesus Do? Social Gospel and Socialism in the United States -- 5 Moral Minority: The Christian Left in the Age of the Christian Right -- 6 Preferential Option for the Poor: Liberation Theology in Latin America -- 7 Liberty to the Captives: Liberation Theology Across the World -- 8 Where Next for the Christian Left? -- Notes -- Index.

"Taking stock of contemporary social, cultural, and political currents, Timothy Brennan explores key turning points in the recent history of American intellectual life. He contends that a certain social-democratic vision of politics has been banished from public discussion, leading to an unlikely convergence of the political right and the academic left and a deadening of critical opposition. Brennan challenges the conventional view that affiliations based on political belief, claims upon the state, or the public interest have been rendered obsolete by the march of events in the years before and after Reagan. Instead, he lays out a new path for a future infused with a sense of intellectual and political possibility." "In highlighting the shift in America's intellectual culture, Brennan makes the case for seeing belief as an identity. As much as race or ethnicity, political belief, Brennan argues, is itself an identity - one that remains unrecognized and without legal protections while possessing its own distinctive culture. Brennan also champions the idea of cosmopolitanism and critiques those theorists who relegate the left to the status of postcolonial "other."" "Wars of Position documents how alternative views were chased from the public stage by strategic acts of censorship, including within supposedly dissident wings of the humanities. He explores how the humanities entered the cultural and political mainstream and settled into an awkward secular religion of the "middle way." Throughout the work, Brennan draws on and critiques the ideas and influence of Heidegger, Lyotard, Kristeva, and other influential theorists." --Book Jacket

11. The 'Che Guevara of the Middle East': Remembering Khalid Ahmad Zaki's Revolutionary Struggle in Iraq's Southern Marshes -- 12. Crisis and Critique: The Transformation of the Arab Radical Tradition between the 1960s and the 1980s -- 13. The Afterlives of Husayn Muruwwa: The Killing of an Intellectual, 1987 -- Afterword. The Arab Left: From Rumbling Ocean to Revolutionary Gulf -- Index

"Many of America's political debates stem from media-constructed opposition between the religious right and secular left. However, the contentious dialogue between two seemingly-contrasting camps is based upon assumptions and stereotypes, rather than facts: the Christian right misrepresents the left as a movement inspired by moral relativism, while the left erroneously frames the Christian right as theocratically-driven. Beyond Religious Right and Secular Left Rhetoric uncovers the actual differences between these groups, examining how both movements have similar conceptual histories. By stressing their oft-ignored similarities (promotion of religious freedom, freedom of conscience, and separation of church and state), the book seeks to better inform partisans and the public at-large in order to move the debate beyond assumptions"--

Taking stock of contemporary social, cultural, and political currents, Timothy Brennan explores key turning points in the recent history of American intellectual life. Wars of Position documents how alternative views were chased from the public stage by strategic acts of censorship, including within supposedly dissident wings of the humanities. He explores how the humanities entered the cultural and political mainstream and settled into an awkward secular religion of the ""middle way."" In a series of interrelated chapters, he considers narratives of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Clinto

A robust empirical literature suggests that the development of one's political ideology is the product of an "elective affinity" between the discursive, socially constructed elements of ideological belief systems and the psychological constraints, motives, and interests of those who are drawn to those belief systems. However, most studies which support this elective affinity theory have been conducted in the West. In the present study, we tested the theory in China to see whether elective affinities between psychological traits and political ideology are more likely to be universal. Across a nationally representative sample (N = 509), we found initial support for the characterization of the left‐right divide in China, albeit in reverse. Namely, the "liberal Right in China mostly evinces traits of the psychological Left in the West (e.g., lower intolerance of ambiguity), while the "conservative Left" mostly evinces traits of the psychological right in the West (e.g., higher system justification). Epistemic motives were most reliably related to political ideology, while existential and relational motives were more mixed; economic and political aspects of ideology were more closely linked to psychological traits than social/cultural aspects. The present findings provide an extension of existing theory and opportunities for further development.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- References -- About the Author -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction: Two Dogs, No Fights -- Dogs-and-Bubbles -- Chapter 2 -- Projections: The Shadow of Left and Right -- Origins -- Reference -- Chapter 3 -- Understandings: A Vote against Pythagoras -- Chapter 4 -- Goods: Life, Love, Play, Freedom and Much More -- Claimed Relationships amongst the Human Goods -- Chapter 5 -- Likes: The Little Art of the Cheeseburger -- References -- Chapter 6 -- Ethics: The Golden Rule and the Gold That Rules -- Ethical Egoism -- Deontology -- The Golden Rule -- Contractarianism -- Ethic of Care -- The Spanning Theories -- Chapter 7 -- Timing: Worry about That Later -- Chapter 8 -- Capitals: Profane Cows and Sacred Cows -- Chapter 9 -- Language: Like Lambs to the Slaughter -- Chapter 10 -- Limits: The Known Limitations of Markets -- Chapter 11 -- Regulations: One Plus One Plus One Equals Three -- Social Regulations -- Chapter 12 -- Strategies: Two Sides, Nine Arenas -- Right-Strategy -- Left Strategy -- Reference -- Chapter 13 -- Games: Don't Even Think about It -- Ranking the Outcomes -- References -- Chapter 14 -- Trust: The King Is in the Shopping Mall -- Chapter 15 -- Dynamics: The Quiet Evolution of Death -- The Evolution of Death -- Governments and Corporations -- Chapter 16 -- Intentions: The Road to Hell and the Canal in Panama -- Sustained Dual-Objectives -- References -- Chapter 17 -- Passions: The Soul, the Psyche and the Will to Power -- Dynamics -- References -- Chapter 18 -- Hopes: Burned Wings and Freedom Songs -- References -- Chapter 19 -- Scopes: My Brothers and I -- Scope of Justice -- Identities -- Veil of Ignorance -- National vs. Global -- References -- Chapter 20 -- Loci: Don't Project Those Voices -- Projections -- Environmental and Social Justice -- Reference -- Chapter 21

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. The Reputation of the American Left -- 2. The Socialist Origins of Social Security -- 3. Early Achievers on the American Left -- 4. Socialists in Congress -- 5. The Identification of America and its Fascist Enemy -- 6. The New Deal's Undeclared Socialism -- 7. The Republican Re-invention of Socialism -- 8. The New Left Shares the Credit -- 9. The Newer Left -- 10. The Republican Road to Nationalization -- 11. Obama: A President for the Left? -- Appendix: Defining the Left and Adjacent Terms -- Notes -- Abbreviations used in the Notes -- Bibliography -- Index