Politics of fear, practices of hope / Stefan Skrimshire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Skrimshire, Stephen.

Series:

Continuum studies in religion and political culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and politics.

Fear.

Hope.

Physical Description:

221 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, [2008]

Summary:

This book is about the relationship between two hugely influential ideas in political life: fear and hope. How are cultures of resistance nurtured within an environment of paranoia and social paralysis? Stefan Skrimshire argues that grass-roots responses to a politics of fear coincide with an explosion of interest in the quasi-religious themes of apocalypse, eschatology and utopia in cultural life. Where visions of a better future are replaced by the acceptance of a fearful present a state of 'war with no end' this is an important examination of the beliefs that underpin our capacity to hope.

Contents:

Politics of fantasy

Politics of imagination

Experiments in hope.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-215) and index.

ISBN:

9781847060754

1847060757

OCLC:

225532361