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Book Faith in Numbers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Hoffman
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2021-01-18
  • ISBN : 0197538037
  • Pages : 213 pages

Download or read book Faith in Numbers written by Michael Hoffman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does religion sometimes increase support for democracy and sometimes do just the opposite? In Faith in Numbers, political scientist Michael Hoffman presents a theory of religion, group interest, and democracy. Focusing on communal religion, he demonstrates that the effect of communal prayer on support for democracy depends on the interests of the religious group in question. For members of groups who would benefit from democracy, communal prayer increases support for democratic institutions; for citizens whose groups would lose privileges in the event of democratic reforms, the opposite effect is present. Using a variety of data sources, Hoffman illustrates these claims in multiple contexts. He places particular emphasis on his study of Lebanon and Iraq, two countries in which sectarian divisions have played a major role in political development, by utilizing both existing and original surveys. By examining religious and political preferences among both Muslims and non-Muslims in several religiously diverse settings, Faith in Numbers shows that theological explanations of religion and democracy are inadequate. Rather, it demonstrates that religious identities and sectarian interests play a major part in determining regime preferences and illustrates how Islam in particular can be mobilized for both pro- and anti-democratic purposes. It finds that Muslim religious practice is not necessarily anti-democratic; in fact, in a number of settings, practicing Muslims are considerably more supportive of democracy than their secular counterparts. Theological differences alone do not determine whether members of religious groups tend to support or oppose democracy; rather, their participation in communal worship motivates them to view democracy through a sectarian lens.

Book Sacred Violence

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  • Author : Brent D. Shaw
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2011-09
  • ISBN : 0521196051
  • Pages : 931 pages

Download or read book Sacred Violence written by Brent D. Shaw and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 931 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employs the sectarian battles which divided African Christians in late antiquity to explore the nature of violence in religious conflicts.

Book Moving Beyond Sectarianism

Download or read book Moving Beyond Sectarianism written by Joseph Liechty and published by Columba Press (IE). This book was released on 2001 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A six-year research project of the Irish School of Ecumenics concerned with Christianities and sectarianism in Northern Ireland, and offering a detailed analysis of sectarian dynamics.

Book Christianity and Sectarianism  An address delivered at a liberal Christian Convention  held  at  Cairo  Greene County  N Y   etc

Download or read book Christianity and Sectarianism An address delivered at a liberal Christian Convention held at Cairo Greene County N Y etc written by Amory Dwight MAYO and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beyond Sectarianism

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  • Author : Philip D. Kenneson
  • Publisher : Trinity Press International
  • Release : 1999-06-01
  • ISBN : 9781563382789
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Beyond Sectarianism written by Philip D. Kenneson and published by Trinity Press International. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author sets forth a model that suggests that the church's role in contemporary society is to serve a "contrast-society." In this model, the church is animated by a different spirit than that which animates "the world.">

Book History of Religious Sectarianism in Russia  1860s 1917

Download or read book History of Religious Sectarianism in Russia 1860s 1917 written by Aleksandr Ilʹich Klibanov and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1982 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Arab World

Download or read book Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Arab World written by Bruce Masters and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and evolution of Christian and Jewish communities in the Ottoman empire over 400 years.

Book Christianity   Sectarianism

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  • Author : W. B. Godbye
  • Publisher : First Fruits Press
  • Release : 2021-07-31
  • ISBN : 9781648170515
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Christianity Sectarianism written by W. B. Godbye and published by First Fruits Press. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Philosophy of Sectarianism  Or  a Classified View of the Christian Sects in the United States  with Notices of Their Progress and Tendencies  Etc

Download or read book The Philosophy of Sectarianism Or a Classified View of the Christian Sects in the United States with Notices of Their Progress and Tendencies Etc written by Alexander BLAIKIE and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sectarianism and Orestes Brownson in the American Religious Marketplace

Download or read book Sectarianism and Orestes Brownson in the American Religious Marketplace written by Ángel Cortés and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the origins of the American religious marketplace by examining the life and work of reformer and journalist Orestes Brownson (1803-1876). Grounded in a wide variety of sources, including personal correspondence, journalistic essays, book reviews, and speeches, this work argues that religious sectarianism profoundly shaped participants in the religious marketplace. Brownson is emblematic of this dynamic because he changed his religious identity seven times over a quarter of a century. Throughout, Brownson waged a war of words opposing religious sectarianism. By the 1840s, however, a corrosive intellectual environment transformed Brownson into an arch religious sectarian. The book ends with a consideration of several explanations for Brownson’s religious mobility, emphasizing the goad of sectarianism as the most salient catalyst for change.

Book Sectarianism and Religious Persecution in China

Download or read book Sectarianism and Religious Persecution in China written by Jan Jakob Maria Groot and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Understanding  Sectarianism

Download or read book Understanding Sectarianism written by Fanar Haddad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sectarianism" is one of the most over-discussed yet under-analyzed concepts in debates about the Middle East. Despite the deluge of commentary, there is no agreement on what "sectarianism" is. Is it a social issue, one of dogmatic incompatibility, a historic one or one purely related to modern power politics? Is it something innately felt or politically imposed? Is it a product of modernity or its antithesis? Is it a function of the nation-state or its negation? This book seeks to move the study of modern sectarian dynamics beyond these analytically paralyzing dichotomies by shifting the focus away from the meaningless '-ism' towards the root: sectarian identity. How are Sunni and Shi'a identities imagined, experienced and negotiated and how do they relate to and interact with other identities? Looking at the modern history of the Arab world, Haddad seeks to understand sectarian identity not as a monochrome frame of identification but as a multi-layered concept that operates on several dimensions: religious, subnational, national and transnational. Far from a uniquely Middle Eastern, Arab, or Islamic phenomenon, a better understanding of sectarian identity reveals that the many facets of sectarian relations that are misleadingly labelled "sectarianism" are echoed in intergroup relations worldwide.

Book The Christian Alliance at Home  Or  Sectarianism Defined and Corrected

Download or read book The Christian Alliance at Home Or Sectarianism Defined and Corrected written by Darwin H. RANNEY and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Real Peace Process

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  • Author : Siobhan Garrigan
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-04-01
  • ISBN : 1134940408
  • Pages : 239 pages

Download or read book The Real Peace Process written by Siobhan Garrigan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Good Friday Agreement resulted in the cessation of paramilitary violence in Northern Ireland. However, prejudice and animosity between Protestants and Catholics remains. The Real Peace Process draws on extensive fieldwork in Protestant and Catholic churches across Ireland to analyse how Christian worship can become caught up in sectarianism. The book examines the need for a peace process that changes hearts and minds and not merely civic structures of their inhabitants. Aspects of everyday worship – ranging from the spatial and symbolic to the verbal, musical and interpersonal – are explored as the means by which sectarianism can be challenged and transformed.

Book Hell Know   New Revised Edition

Download or read book Hell Know New Revised Edition written by Dirk Waren and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hell is a hot topic! The Bible teaches that unredeemed people will stand before God on Judgment Day and those whose names are not found in the Book of Life will be cast into the lake of fire. The Bible calls this the "second death." What is the nature of this second death? Will these people suffer fiery torment forever and ever, as has been taught since the time of Augustine in the early 5th Century? Or will they be BURNED UP-literally destroyed forever with no hope of resurrection? And what about universalism, the idea that everyone will ultimately be saved? The author used to subscribe to the eternal torture doctrine until he honestly studied the Scriptures and discovered what they plainly teach on the subject-EVERLASTING DESTRUCTION. The biblical evidence is actually overwhelming! Read HELL KNOW and see for yourself. HELL KNOW has been a hit on the internet for years. This is the NEW REVISED EDITION (2016) with 26 pages of NEW MATERIAL.

Book Johannine Sectarianism in Perspective

Download or read book Johannine Sectarianism in Perspective written by Kåre Sigvald Fuglseth and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central aim of the investigation is to evaluate the claim that the Gospel of John was a product of a ‘sectarian’ milieu. Fuglseth is using methods primarily derived from sociology and the study of new religious movements today. He discusses in particular the ‘cult’-model as an alternative to ‘sect,’ and compares the Johannine texts with texts from two contemporary milieus: Philo and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The thesis is embedded in a comprehensive survey of research and discussions of methods and of the existence of a Johannine community. There are still serious debates going on about the existence and nature of the Johannine group, its ‘Jewish’ roots and settings, the attitude to the ‘Jews’ and the ‘synagogue’, and the two levels of meanings in the Johannine text according to Martyn and Brown. In this situation Fuglseth’s investigation is of great current interest and gives new answers to central questions in the Johannine research.