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For many, U2's Bono is an icon of both evangelical spirituality and secular moral activism. In this book, Chad E. Seales examines the religious and spiritual culture that has built up around the rock star over the course of his career and considers how Bono engages with that religion in his music and in his activism. Looking at Bono and his work within a wider critique of white American evangelicalism, Seales traces Bono's career, from his background in religious groups in the 1970s to his rise to stardom in the 1980s and his relationship with political and economic figures, such as Jeffrey Sachs, Bill Clinton, and Jesse Helms. In doing so, Seales shows us a different Bono, one who uses the spiritual meaning of church tradition to advocate for the promise that free markets and for-profits will bring justice and freedom to the world's poor. Engaging with scholarship in popular culture, music, religious studies, race, and economic development, Seales makes the compelling case that neoliberal capitalism is a religion and that Bono is its best-known celebrity revivalist. Engagingly written and bitingly critical, Religion Around Bono promises to transform our understanding of the rock star's career and advocacy. Those interested in the intersection of rock music, religion, and activism will find Seales's study provocative and enlightening.

Evangelicalism. --- Neoliberalism --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Bono, --- Religion. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Africa. --- Bono. --- Capitalism. --- Corporate Philanthropy. --- Globalization. --- Neoliberalism. --- Revivalism. --- U2.

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Today's Islamists are not a reproduction of an ancient legacy, but are modern political actors defined by modern discourses, argues Basheer Nafiin The Islamists. He examines the emergence and development of political Islam in the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century, discussing the historical context within which political Islam arose, and relating it to the social movements and political parties that lead the phenomenon today. On questions concerning the state, economics and law, the differences among Islamists are no less than their agreements. Nafit eases out some of these agreements and differences relating to governance, citizenship, pluralism, unity, revivalism, and truth. This very accessible work, intended for both an academic and general audience, highlights these matters by examining the groups and individuals that constitute the broad category of political Islam, considering how they have developed over time, and how they have impacted on the countries in which they operate.

Islam --- Violence --- Political violence --- Political parties --- Islamic renewal. --- Islam and politics. --- Politics and Islam --- Political science --- Islamic reform --- Islamic revivalism --- Islamic revivalist movement --- Ṣaḥwah (Islam) --- Religious awakening --- Wahhābīyah --- Parties, Political --- Party systems, Political --- Political party systems --- Divided government --- Intra-party disagreements (Political parties) --- Political conventions --- Religious aspects --- Islam. --- Political aspects --- Reform --- Renewal

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In Vanuatu, commoditization and revitalization of culture and the arts do not necessarily work against each other; both revolve around value formation and the authentication of things. This book investigates the meaning and value of (art) objects as commodities in differing states of transit and transition: in the local place, on the market, in the museum. It provides an ethnographic account of commoditization in a context of revitalization of culture and the arts in Vanuatu, and the issues this generates, such as authentication of actions and things, indigenized copyright, and kastom disputes over ownership and the nature of kastom itself.

Art and society --- Authenticity (Philosophy). --- Heritage tourism --- Tourism and art --- Authenticity (Philosophy) --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A76 --- Philosophy --- Cultural tourism --- Tourism --- Art --- Art and sociology --- Society and art --- Sociology and art --- Art and tourism --- Tourist trade and art --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Etnografie: Oceanië --- Social aspects --- Sociologie van de cultuur --- Toerisme --- Volkenkunde. Culturele antropologie --- Vanuatu --- Sociology of culture --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Cultural Revivalism, Vanuatu, Kastom Culture, The Art Trade, Anthropology of Tourism, Repatriation.