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"In Native Americans and the Christian Right, Andrea Smith advances social movement theory beyond simplistic understandings of social-justice activism as either right-wing or left-wing and urges a more open-minded approach to the role of religion in social movements. In examining the interplay of biblical scripture, gender, and nationalism in Christian Right and Native American activism, Smith rethinks the nature of political strategy and alliance-building for progressive purposes, highlighting the potential of unlikely alliances, termed "cowboys and Indians coalitions" by one of her Native activist interviewees. She also complicates ideas about identity, resistance, accommodation, and acquiescence in relation to social-justice activism. Smith draws on archival research, interviews, and her own participation in Native struggles and Christian Right conferences and events. She considers American Indian activism within the Promise Keepers and new Charismatic movements. She also explores specific opportunities for building unlikely alliances. For instance, while evangelicals' understanding of the relationship between the Bible and the state may lead to reactionary positions on issues including homosexuality, civil rights, and abortion, it also supports a relatively progressive position on prison reform. In terms of evangelical and Native American feminisms, she reveals antiviolence organizing to be a galvanizing force within both communities, discusses theories of coalition politics among both evangelical and indigenous women, and considers Native women's visions of sovereignty and nationhood. Smith concludes with a reflection on the implications of her research for the field of Native American studies."--Back cover.
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The Muslim Brotherhood has achieved a level of influence nearly unimaginable before the Arab Spring. The Brotherhood was the resounding victor in Egypt's 2011-2012 parliamentary elections, and six months later, a leader of the group was elected president. Yet the implications of the Brotherhood's rising power for the future of democratic governance, peace, and stability in the region is open to dispute. Drawing on more than one hundred in-depth interviews as well as Arabic language sources not previously accessed by Western researchers, Carrie Rosefsky Wickham traces the evolution of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt from its founding in 1928 to the fall of Mubarak and the watershed elections of 2011-2012. Further, she compares the Brotherhood's trajectory with those of mainstream Islamist groups in Jordan, Kuwait, and Morocco, revealing a wider pattern of change. Wickham highlights the internal divisions of such groups and explores the shifting balance of power among them. She shows that they are not proceeding along a linear path toward greater moderation.Rather, their course has been marked by profound tensions and contradictions, yielding hybrid agendas in which newly embraced themes of freedom and democracy coexist uneasily with illiberal concepts of Shari'a carried over from the past. Highlighting elements of movement continuity and change, and demonstrating that shifts in Islamist worldviews, goals, and strategies are not the result of a single strand of cause and effect, Wickham provides a systematic, fine-grained account of Islamist group evolution in Egypt and the wider Arab world.
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Chi sono i fondamentalisti cristiani? Qual è il loro rapporto con il testo sacro? Davvero il loro stile interpretativo consiste semplicemente nella lettura letterale della Bibbia? Quanto peso ha nei loro discorsi la Bibbia in sé, e quanto l'opposizione al sistema sociale e culturale postmoderno? La ricerca che questo libro ripercorre nasce come risposta a un’esigenza di senso e di comprensione posta da un fenomeno molto attuale e molto complesso, adotta una metodologia semiotica e si concentra sull’analisi di una spaccatura notevole e affascinante all’interno del mondo fondamentalista: quella tra evangelici conservatori e pentecostali. Lo studio della letteratura sul tema della glossolalia, o dono del parlare in lingue, finisce per mettere in discussione non solo il letteralismo dei fondamentalisti, o l’esistenza di un loro stile interpretativo peculiare, ma la stessa nozione di fondamentalismo.Jenny Ponzo mostra in maniera molto convincente che il fondamentalismo non è affatto, come pretende di essere, una “non-interpretazione”, un grado ermeneutico zero in conflitto con l’ermeneutica allegorizzante e a tratti antiletteralista che si ritrova ampiamente nella tradizione ebraica […] e in quella cattolica. […] il lavoro particolarmente ampio e ben documentato […] è sempre convincente, presenta un'ampia rassegna della letteratura sul tema, utilizza correttamente le tecniche semiotiche correnti, dimostrando ottima consapevolezza metodologica, e sviluppa un'analisi personale del proprio tema, con tratti certamente originali.
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