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Evangelicalism --- Recreation --- Sports --- 27 <41> "18" --- 283.3 --- 796.011.2 --- 796 <09> --- 796 <09> Lichamelijke opvoeding. Sport en spel--Geschiedenis van ... --- Lichamelijke opvoeding. Sport en spel--Geschiedenis van ... --- 283.3 Anglicanisme. Victorian Church:--19de eeuw --- Anglicanisme. Victorian Church:--19de eeuw --- Field sports --- Pastimes --- Recreations --- Athletics --- Games --- Outdoor life --- Physical education and training --- Manners and customs --- Amusements --- Community centers --- Leisure --- Evangelical religion --- Protestantism, Evangelical --- Evangelical Revival --- Fundamentalism --- Pietism --- Protestantism --- History --- Religious aspects --- Protestant churches --- History of doctrines --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- Sport en religie --- Lichamelijke opvoeding. Sport en spel--Geschiedenis van --- Great Britain --- Church history --- Social life and customs

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Conscience --- Faith --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History of doctrines

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At the heart of the Soviet experiment was a belief in the impermanence of the human spirit: souls could be engineered; conscience could be destroyed. The project was, in many ways, chillingly successful. But the ultimate failure of a totalitarian regime to fulfill its ambitions for social and spiritual mastery had roots deeper than the deficiencies of the Soviet leadership or the chaos of a "command" economy. Beneath the rhetoric of scientific communism was a culture of intellectual and cultural dissidence, which may be regarded as the "prehistory of perestroika." This volume explores the contribution of Christian thought and belief to this culture of dissent and survival, showing how religious and secular streams of resistance joined in an unexpected and powerful partnership. The essays in The Dangerous God seek to shed light on the dynamic and subversive capacities of religious faith in a context of brutal oppression, while acknowledging the often-collusive relationship between clerical elites and the Soviet authorities. Against the Marxist notion of the "ideological" function of religion, the authors set the example of people for whom faith was more than an opiate; against an enduring mythology of secularization, they propose the centrality of religious faith in the intellectual, political, and cultural life of the late modern era. This volume will appeal to specialists on religion in Soviet history as well as those interested in the history of religion under totalitarian regimes.

Christianity --- Soviet Union --- Church history.

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"This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation's fathers did not intend the Second Amendment to guarantee an individual right to bear arms-and that this intentional distortion of the record is an urgent threat to democracy. Hundreds of lives are lost to firearms every day in America. The cost is more than the numbers-it is also the fear, the anxiety, the dread of public spaces that an armed society has created under the tortured rubric of freedom. But the norms of today are not the norms of American history or the values of its Founders. They are the product of a gun culture that has imposed its vision on a sleeping nation. Historian Dominic Erdozain argues that we have wrongly ceded the big-picture argument on guns-as we parse legislation on background checks and automatic weapons bans, we fail to ask: Do individual gun rights have any place at all in American democracy? Taking readers on a brilliant historical journey, Erdozain shows how the Founders feared the tyranny of individuals as much as the tyranny of kings-the idea that any person had a right to walk around armed was anathema to their notion of freedom and the enduring republic they hoped to build. They baked these ideas into the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, ideas that were subsequently affirmed as bedrock by two centuries of jurisprudence. And yet: the twin scourges of America's sickness on race and its near-religious nationalism would work in tandem to create an alternate, darker vision of American freedom. This vision was defined by a mystic conception of good guys and bad guys, underpinned by a host of assumptions about innocence and guilt, power and entitlement. By the time the US Supreme Court essentially invented an individual gun right in 2008 by torturing the words of the Second Amendment in Heller-a decision that Erdozain convincingly eviscerates-many Americans had already acceded to gun activists' perverse unfreedom. To save our democracy, he argues, we must fight for the Founders' true idea of what it means to be free"--

Firearms --- Firearms --- Gun control --- Social aspects --- Law and legislation

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