Red State Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Red State Religion write by Robert Wuthnow. This book was released on 2012. Red State Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What Kansas really tells us about red state America No state has voted Republican more consistently or widely or for longer than Kansas. To understand red state politics, Kansas is the place. It is also the place to understand red state religion. The Kansas Board of Education has repeatedly challenged the teaching of evolution, Kansas voters overwhelmingly passed a constitutional ban on gay marriage, the state is a hotbed of antiabortion protest—and churches have been involved in all of these efforts. Yet in 1867 suffragist Lucy Stone could plausibly proclaim that, in the cause of universal suffrage, "Kansas leads the world!" How did Kansas go from being a progressive state to one of the most conservative? In Red State Religion, Robert Wuthnow tells the story of religiously motivated political activism in Kansas from territorial days to the present. He examines how faith mixed with politics as both ordinary Kansans and leaders such as John Brown, Carrie Nation, William Allen White, and Dwight Eisenhower struggled over the pivotal issues of their times, from slavery and Prohibition to populism and anti-communism. Beyond providing surprising new explanations of why Kansas became a conservative stronghold, the book sheds new light on the role of religion in red states across the Midwest and the United States. Contrary to recent influential accounts, Wuthnow argues that Kansas conservatism is largely pragmatic, not ideological, and that religion in the state has less to do with politics and contentious moral activism than with relationships between neighbors, friends, and fellow churchgoers. This is an important book for anyone who wants to understand the role of religion in American political conservatism.
Faith and the State
Faith and the State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Faith and the State write by Amelia Fauzia. This book was released on 2013-02-21. Faith and the State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Faith and the State offers a historical development of Islamic philanthropy from the time of the Islamic monarchs, through the period of Dutch colonialism and up to contemporary Indonesia.
Religion and the State
Religion and the State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and the State write by J. M. Barbalet. This book was released on 2011. Religion and the State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With a clear statement of the theoretical issues in the debates about secularization and post-secularism,?Religion and the State: A Comparative Sociology? considers a number of major case studies? from China, Europe, Singapore and South Asia? in order to understand the rise of public religions in the modern state. By distinguishing between political secularization? the separation of state and religion? and social secularization? the transformation of the everyday practice of religion? this volume offers an integrating framework within which to analyze these different societies.
Politicization of Religion, the Power of Symbolism
Politicization of Religion, the Power of Symbolism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Politicization of Religion, the Power of Symbolism write by G. Ognjenovic. This book was released on 2014-12-17. Politicization of Religion, the Power of Symbolism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the role religion played in the dismantling of Yugoslavia; addressing practical concerns of inter-ethnic fighting, religiously-motivated warfare, and the role religion played within the dissolution of the nation.
Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy
Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy write by David M. Elcott. This book was released on 2021-05-01. Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy highlights the use of religious identity to fuel the rise of illiberal, nationalist, and populist democracy. In Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy, David Elcott, C. Colt Anderson, Tobias Cremer, and Volker Haarmann present a pragmatic and modernist exploration of how religion engages in the public square. Elcott and his co-authors are concerned about the ways religious identity is being used to foster the exclusion of individuals and communities from citizenship, political representation, and a role in determining public policy. They examine the ways religious identity is weaponized to fuel populist revolts against a political, social, and economic order that values democracy in a global and strikingly diverse world. Included is a history and political analysis of religion, politics, and policies in Europe and the United States that foster this illiberal rebellion. The authors explore what constitutes a constructive religious voice in the political arena, even in nurturing patriotism and democracy, and what undermines and threatens liberal democracies. To lay the groundwork for a religious response, the book offers chapters showing how Catholicism, Protestantism, and Judaism can nourish liberal democracy. The authors encourage people of faith to promote foundational support for the institutions and values of the democratic enterprise from within their own religious traditions and to stand against the hostility and cruelty that historically have resulted when religious zealotry and state power combine. Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy is intended for readers who value democracy and are concerned about growing threats to it, and especially for people of faith and religious leaders, as well as for scholars of political science, religion, and democracy.
