God's rule : the politics of world religions / Jacob Neusner, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Neusner, Jacob, 1932-2016

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and politics.

Physical Description:

281 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2003]

Summary:

Resisting the tendency to separate the study of religion and politics, editor Jacob Neusner pulls together a collection of sterling authorities who probe and explore the relationship between the world's major religions and political power. As William Scott Green writes in the introduction, "Because religion is so comprehensive, it is fundamentally about power; it therefore cannot avoid politics." Beginning with the classical sources and texts of Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Confucianism, and Hinduism, God's Rule begins to explore the complex nature of how each religion shapes political power, and how religion shapes itself in relation to that power. The corresponding attention to differing theories of politics and views towards nonbelievers are important not only to studies in comparative religion, but to foreign policy, history, and governance as well. From early Christianity's relationship to the Roman Empire to Hinduism's relationship to Gandhi and the caste system, God's Rule provides a basis of understanding from which undergraduates, seminarians -- indeed all citizens of this shrinking and increasingly violent planet -- can begin asking questions of relationships "both unavoidable and systematically uneasy."

Contents:

Judaism / Jacob Neusner

Primitive and early Christianity / Bruce D. Chilton

Roman Catholic Christianity / Charles E. Curran

Orthodox Christianity / Petros Vassiliadis

Reformation Christianity / Martin E. Marty

Classical Islam / John L. Esposito with Natana J. De Long-Bas

Modern Islam / John L. Esposito with Natana J. De Long-Bas

Hinduism / Brian K. Smith

Confucianism / Mark Csikszentmihalyi

Buddhism / Todd Lewis

Conclusion: retrospective on religion and politics / Jacob Neusner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0878409106

OCLC:

50562077