Defending the faith : global histories of apologetics and politics in the 20th century
Defending the faith
Bok · Engelsk · 2020
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| Omfang | x, 308 sider
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| Opplysninger | 1. The apologetics of modern culture wars: The case of Weimar Germany / Todd H. Weir -- 2. Ideology and futurology in early 20th-century Britain: Wells, Haldane, Bernal, and their critics / Peter J. Bowler -- 3. Vivat Christus Rex! The cult of Christ the King, Vatican apologetics, Catholic action, and the far right / John Pollard -- 4. Between Rome and the godless: Martin Niemöller's apologetic moves, 1930-50 / Benjamin Ziemann -- 5. British and Muslim? British converts and their apologetics for Islam in the interwar period / Umar Ryad -- 6. From mental slavery to brainwashing: Anti-Catholic legacies in anti-communist polemics / Jennifer M. Miller and Udi Greenberg -- 7. 'Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the devil himself': Billy Graham's apologetics and the Cold War West / Uta Andrea Balbier -- 8. The apologetics of decolonisation: Defending religion in South and Southeast Asia after the Second World War / Clemens Six -- 9. Atheism as a vocation: Soviet communism and its atheist apologists / Victoria Smolkin -- 10. Sacred values: Islam, communism, and Moroccan nationalism in the long 1960s / Alma Rachel Heckman -- 11. 'A world to be transfigured': Shaping a cold war vision of orthodoxy from the South / Vlad Naumescu -- 12. Louis Jacobs, revelation, and the ongoing battle to defend Jewish orthodoxy / Miri Freud-Kandel -- 13. Recognising secularisation: The Church of England and its struggle for a political role (1960-90) / Peter Itzen -- Afterword: Apologetics as a seismograph of social change and an arena of secular-religious conflicts / Monika Wohlrab-Sahr. - This volume explores how conflicts between secularist ideologies and religious faiths shaped global history in the twentieth century. The chapters approach the dynamic effects of these struggles by focussing on ‘apologetics’, i.e. the discourses, strategies and institutions deployed by religious and secularist actors on the front lines to articulate the faith and defend against the enemy. From the futurology of HG Wells to Cold War evangelicalism to the contentious negotiations over Islam between Communists and the royal house in 1970s Morocco, apologetics is here revealed to be a key site interaction across ideological boundaries. By bringing the dynamics of religious and secular apologetics into a comparative perspective, with examples drawn from Western Europe, the USSR, the USA, North Africa and Asia, the chapters offer new perspectives on the religious dimension of local and global religious politics between the First World War and the end of the Cold War. -- Forlagets beskrivelse
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| Emner | apologetikk trosforsvar
politikk religion |
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| ISBN | 9780197266915
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