The politics of religion and social change

Paragon House

1988

xx, 284 p.

Religion and the Political Order ; vol. 2

Religion and social change; the critical connection / Anson Shupe and Jeffrey K. Haddon -- A theory of prophetic religion and politics / Theodore E. Long -- Kingdoms of heaven on earth: new religious movements and political orders / Eileen Barker -- Mormon assimilation and politics: toward a theory of Mormon church involvement in national U.S. politics / Armand L. Mauss and M. Gerald Bradford -- State-within-a-state diplomacy: Mormon missionary efforts in communist and Islamic countries / Anson Shupe and John Heinerman -- The role and response of the Catholic Church in the redemocratization of Brazil / Thomas C. Bruneau -- Nicaragua: the struggle for the church / Michael Dodson -- Liberation theology and the concept of human rights / William R. Garrett -- The influence of certain political movements in South Africa on the church's role in the struggle for liberation / Bonganjalo Goba -- Muslims in communist nations: the cases of Albania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and the Soviet Union / Jerry G. Pankhurst -- The roots of Hindu-Muslim conflict in India: British colonialism and religious revival / K.L. Seshagiri Rao -- The Sikh crisis in India: a question of identity / Arvind Sharma -- Self-preservation and the embattled church: the case of the Greek orthodox patriarchate of Jerusalem / Donald A. Luidens --Christian zionism and Jewish zionism; points of contact / Roland Robertson -- A Christian love for Israel / Grace Halsell

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