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1 online resource (230 pages) |
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Continuum Studies in Religion and Political Culture |
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Continuum studies in religion and political culture
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| Contents |
Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Politics of Fantasy; Chapter 1: Post-Democracy and the War on Terror; Chapter 2: From Fear to Desire; Chapter 3: Accidents Waiting to Happen; Reflections on Part I; Part II: Politics of Imagination; Chapter 4: Utopia: Radical Imagination; Chapter 5: Eschatology: Radical Waiting; Chapter 6: Apocalypse: Radical Seeing; Reflections on Part II; Part III: Experiments in Hope; Chapter 7: The Performance of Dissent; Chapter 8: How to Be Common; Chapter 9: Bodies of Resistance; Reflections on Part III; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F |
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| Summary |
Politics of Fear, Practices of Hope is about the relationship between two hugely influential ideas in political life: fear and hope . How are cultures of resistance nurtured within an environment of paranoia and social paralysis? Stefan Skrimshire argues that grass-roots responses to a politics of fear coincide with an explosion of interest in the quasi-religious themes of apocalypse, eschatology and utopia in cultural life. Where visions of a better future are replaced by the acceptance of a fearful present - a state of 'war with no end' - this is an important examination of the beliefs that |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Religion and politics.
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Fear.
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Hope.
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Fear
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fear.
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Fear
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Hope
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Religion and politics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441114709 |
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144111470X |
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