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1 online resource (x, 218 pages) |
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Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Watch!": The Meanings of Christian Antiliberalism -- Notes -- 1. The Irony of the Liberal State -- Traditions of Dissent -- The Sixties and Their Aftermath -- Theory as Usual? -- Notes -- 2. Christianity Faithfully Lived Is Politics Enough: Prophetic Politics in the Sojourners Community -- Roots and Relations -- Inner-City Koinonia -- Establishing Judgment in the Gate: Prophetic Theology -- A Local Geography of Christ's Passion -- Call to Renewal -- A Very Unexpected Place: Meanings and Interpretations -- Notes |
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3. The Rootedness of Discontent: Culture and Identity in the New Christian Right -- An Antiliberal History -- Keeping Safe from the Liberal State -- Educrats of Sexology -- Drawing the Line -- The Sacred Registers of Education -- Notes -- 4. The Fracture of Good Order: The Berrigans and Ritual Protest -- Blood and the Signs of Contradiction -- "No Man of State Has Seen His Own Heart": The Berrigans and Caesar -- "Pissing on the Dynamite": Ritual Protest and Sacramental Politics -- "It's Impolite Not to Tell the Judge He's Terrible": The Berrigans in Court |
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In the Belly of the Whale: Jonah House and Community -- Notes -- 5. Joy Cometh with the Morning: Democracy, Power, and Christian Antiliberalism -- The Shapes of American Religion -- A Refuge from Liberalism -- Power, Religion, and Democracy -- The Stubborn Quality of Truth and Experience -- Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A-C -- D-F -- G-L -- M-N -- O-S -- T-Z |
| Summary |
Whether picketing outside abortion clinics, speaking out at school board meetings, or attending anti-death penalty vigils, many Americans have publicly opposed local, state, or federal government policies on the basis of their religious convictions. In this book, Jason Bivins examines the growing phenomenon of Christian protest against civil authority and political order in the United States. He argues that since the 1960s, there has been a proliferation of religious activism against what the protesters perceive as government's excessive power and lack of moral principle. Calling this phenomenon "Christian antiliberalism," Bivins finds at its center a belief that American politics is based on a liberal tradition that threatens the practice of a religious life and gives government too much social and economic influence. Focusing on the Catholic pacifism of Daniel and Philip Berrigan and the Jonah House resistance community, the Christian Right's homeschooling movement, and the evangelical Sojourners community, Bivins combines religious studies with political theory to explore the common ground shared by these disparate groups. Despite their vast ideological and institutional differences, these activists justify their actions in overtly religious terms based on a rejection of basic tenets of the American political system. Analyzing the widespread dissatisfaction with the conventional forms of political identity and affiliation that characterize American civic life today, this book sheds light on the complex relations between religion and democratic society |
| Analysis |
Samfundsvidenskab Politologi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-211) and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Christianity and politics -- United States
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Liberalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Political activists -- Religious life -- United States
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Liberalism -- United States
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
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Christianity and politics
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Liberalism
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Liberalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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United States
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0807861502 |
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9780807861509 |
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0807827932 |
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9780807827932 |
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