Religion and Power: The Case of Methodism in Norway
... but it could well be related to Nicolai Berdyaev's claims about the origins of Russian communism and to Geoffrey Hosking's comment that the appalling suffering endured by the Russian Orthodox Church represented the clash of a ...
... but it could well be related to nicolai Berdyaev's claims about the origins of Russian communism and to geoffrey Hosking's comment that the appalling suffering endured by the Russian orthodox Church represented the clash of a ...
This volume represents a collection of contributions presented during the Third Annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar Religion and Power: Divine Kingship in the Ancient World and Beyond, held...
In this book David Martin argues, against Habermas, that religion and politics share a common mythic basis and that it is misleading to contrast the rationality of politics with the irrationality of religion.
Religion has power structures that require and justify collaboration with empires. Concentrating on Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism, this book also asserts that religion has subversive energies that undermine its power plays.