The Terrible meek : religion and revolution in cross-cultural perspective / edited by Lonnie D. Kliever.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Paragon House Publishers, c1987.Description: xvi, 259 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0887022154 (pbk.) :
  • 0887022146 (hard)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 291.1/77 19
LOC classification:
  • BL65.R48 T47 1987
Contents:
Introduction / Lonnie D. Kliever -- American republicanism and Christian piety / Stanley Johannesen --Order, chaos, and renunciation : the reign of dharma in modern India / Harvey P. Alper -- Religion, ideology, and revolution : the problematical case of post-1979 Iran / Bruce B. Lawrence -- Ideology in rural struggle : contradictions of popular movements in Highland Peru / William W. Stein -- Revolution in the tradition of Jan Hus : the confluence of Christian religion and Marxist ideology in Czechoslovakia / Martin Rumscheidt -- Religion, ideology, and economic justice / Richard L. Rubenstein -- The religious legitimation of counterviolence : insights from Latin American liberation theology / William R. Jones -- Religion and the problem of power : South Africa / Austin M. Ahanotu.
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection BL 65 .R48 T47 1987 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39216

Papers originally prepared for a symposium held in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy on the topic "Ideology, religion, and revolution."

Subtitle on cover: Essays on religion and revolution.

"A Washington Institute book."

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction / Lonnie D. Kliever -- American republicanism and Christian piety / Stanley Johannesen --Order, chaos, and renunciation : the reign of dharma in modern India / Harvey P. Alper -- Religion, ideology, and revolution : the problematical case of post-1979 Iran / Bruce B. Lawrence -- Ideology in rural struggle : contradictions of popular movements in Highland Peru / William W. Stein -- Revolution in the tradition of Jan Hus : the confluence of Christian religion and Marxist ideology in Czechoslovakia / Martin Rumscheidt -- Religion, ideology, and economic justice / Richard L. Rubenstein -- The religious legitimation of counterviolence : insights from Latin American liberation theology / William R. Jones -- Religion and the problem of power : South Africa / Austin M. Ahanotu.

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