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What kind of freedom, and what kind of individual, has the French Revolutionary tradition sought to propagate? Paul Cohen finds a distinctly French articulation of freedom in the texts and lives of eight renowned cultural critics who lived between the eighteenth century and the present day. Arranged not according to the lives and times of its protagonists but to the narrative themes and structures they held in common, Cohen's study discerns a single master narrative of liberty in modern France. He captures these radicals, whose tradition bids them to resist the authority of power structures and public opinion. They denounce bourgeois and utilitarian values, the power of Church and State, and the corrupting influence of everyday politics, and they dream of a revolutionary rupture, a fleeting instant of sometimes violent but always meaningful transgression. An eloquent and insightful work on French political culture, Freedom's Moment also helps explain how France, even as it has oscillated between political stagnation and crisis, has held onto its faith that liberty, equality, and fraternity remain within its grasp. Examines the ideas of Rousseau, Robespierre, Stendahl, Michelet, Bergson, Peguy, Sartre, and Foucault.
Liberty --- Philosophy, French. --- French philosophy --- History. --- Philosophy, French --- History --- freedom, france, french, european, europe, liberty, free, cultural studies, culture, narrative themes, radicals, authority, power structures, public opinion, church and state, religion, government, revolutionary, politics, political, philosophy, equality, fraternity, jean-jacques rousseau, michel foucault, maximilien robespierre, stendhal, marie-henri beyle, jules michelet, henri-louis bergson, charles pierre peguy, jean-paul sartre.
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After centuries of near silence, Latin poetry underwent a renaissance in the late fourth and fifth centuries CE evidenced in the works of key figures such as Ausonius, Claudian, Prudentius, and Paulinus of Nola. This period of resurgence marked a milestone in the reception of the classics of late Republican and early imperial poetry. In Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry, Philip Hardie explores the ways in which poets writing on non-Christian and Christian subjects used the classical traditions of Latin poetry to construct their relationship with Rome's imperial past and present, and with the by now not-so-new belief system of the state religion, Christianity. The book pays particular attention to the themes of concord and discord, the ";cosmic sense"; of late antiquity, novelty and renouatio, paradox and miracle, and allegory. It is also a contribution to the ongoing discussion of whether there is an identifiably late antique poetics and a late antique practice of intertextuality. Not since Michael Robert's classic The Jeweled Style has a single book had so much to teach about the enduring power of Latin poetry in late antiquity.
Christian poetry, Latin --- Political poetry, Latin --- Christian poetry, Latin. --- Literature. --- Political poetry, Latin. --- History and criticism. --- Rome --- Rome (Empire). --- In literature. --- History and criticism --- In literature --- Christian poetry, Latin - History and criticism --- Political poetry, Latin - History and criticism --- Rome - In literature --- allegory. --- antique poetics. --- antiquity. --- ausonius. --- christian subjects. --- classical traditions. --- classicism. --- classics. --- claudian. --- concord. --- cosmic sense. --- discord. --- imperial past. --- imperial poetry. --- intertextuality. --- late republican. --- latin poetry. --- non christian. --- novelty. --- paradox and miracle. --- paulinus of nola. --- poets. --- prudentius. --- relationship. --- renaissance. --- renouatio. --- rome. --- state religion.
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In recent years, as government agencies have encouraged faith-based organizations to help ensure social welfare, many black churches have received grants to provide services to their neighborhoods' poorest residents. This collaboration, activist churches explain, is a way of enacting their faith and helping their neighborhoods. But as Michael Leo Owens demonstrates in God and Government in the Ghetto, this alliance also serves as a means for black clergy to reaffirm their political leadership and reposition moral authority in black civil society. Drawing on both survey data and fieldwork in New York City, Owens reveals that African American churches can use these newly forged connections with public agencies to influence policy and government responsiveness in a way that reaches beyond traditional electoral or protest politics. The churches and neighborhoods, Owens argues, can see a real benefit from that influence-but it may come at the expense of less involvement at the grassroots. Anyone with a stake in the changing strategies employed by churches as they fight for social justice will find God and Government in the Ghetto compelling reading.
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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.
Political culture --- Religion and politics --- Culture --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Politics and religion --- Religion --- Religions --- History. --- Religious aspects --- Political aspects --- Kansas --- US-KS --- KS --- KA --- Kans. --- Kan. --- Kansas Territory --- Politics and government --- Abraham Lincoln. --- Bill Clinton. --- Catholics. --- Dwight D. Eisenhower. --- Franklin D. Roosevelt. --- George Tiller. --- George W. Bush. --- Great Depression. --- Harry S. Truman. --- Kansas. --- Laura Beers. --- Methodist Episcopal Church. --- Methodists. --- Middle West. --- Populism. --- Prohibition. --- Protestant churches. --- Protestants. --- Religious Right. --- Republican Party. --- Republicans. --- Richard Nixon. --- Robert F. Kennedy. --- Vietnam War. --- W. L. Beers. --- abortion. --- activism. --- anti-communism. --- antiboss Republicans. --- black power. --- churches. --- civic order. --- conservatism. --- creationism. --- crime of passion. --- desegregation. --- education. --- evolution. --- fundamentalism. --- good citizenship. --- homes. --- hometowns. --- inequality. --- moral activism. --- murder. --- political activism. --- political isolation. --- political movements. --- politics. --- racial equality. --- red state politics. --- red state religion. --- red states. --- religion. --- religious movements. --- same-sex marriage. --- slavery. --- statehood. --- Politics and government.
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Religious ideas, practices, discourses, institutions, and social expressions are in constant flux. This volume addresses the internal and external dynamics, interactions between individuals, religious communities, and local as well as global society. The contributions concentrate on four areas: 1. Contemporary religion in the public sphere: The Tactics of (In)visibility among Religious Communities in Europe; Religion Intersecting De-nationalization and Re-nationalization in Post-Apartheid South Africa;2. Religious transformations: Forms of Religious Communities in Global Society; Political Contributions of Ancestral Cosmologies and the Decolonization of Religious Beliefs; Esoteric Tradition as Poetic Invention; 3. Focus on the individual: Religion and Life Trajectories of Islamists; Angels, Animals and Religious Change in Antiquity and Today; Gaining Access to the Radically Unfamiliar in Today's Religion; Religion between Individuals and Collectives; 4. Narrating religion: Entangled Knowledge Cultures and the Creation of Religions in Mongolia and Europe; Global Intellectual History and the Dynamics of Religion; On Representing Judaism.
291 <063> --- 291 <063> Godsdienstwetenschap: vergelijkend--Congressen --- 291 <063> Science et histoire comparée des religions--Congressen --- Godsdienstwetenschap: vergelijkend--Congressen --- Science et histoire comparée des religions--Congressen --- Conferences - Meetings --- Religion and culture. --- Apartheid --- Shinto and state --- Imperialism --- Buddhism --- Established churches. --- Cultural pluralism. --- Fuxi (Legendary character) --- Islamic fundamentalism. --- Judaism and culture. --- Religious aspects. --- National churches --- State churches --- State religion --- Church and state --- Ecclesiastical law --- Religion and state --- Free churches --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Separate development (Race relations) --- Segregation --- Anti-apartheid movements --- Post-apartheid era --- Culture and religion --- Culture --- Culture and Judaism --- Fundamentalism, Islamic --- Islamism --- Islam --- Religious fundamentalism --- Baoxi (Legendary character) --- Fu Hsi (Legendary character) --- Fu-hsi-shih (Legendary character) --- Fu Xi (Legendary character) --- Fuxishi (Legendary character) --- Mi Hsi (Legendary character) --- Mixi (Legendary character) --- Pao Hsi (Legendary character) --- Tai Hao (Legendary character) --- Legends --- Cultural diversity --- Diversity, Cultural --- Diversity, Religious --- Ethnic diversity --- Pluralism (Social sciences) --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Religious diversity --- Cultural fusion --- Ethnicity --- Multiculturalism --- Religious change. --- historiography of religion. --- religion in society. --- spirituality.
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