The Terrible meek : religion and revolution in cross-cultural perspective / edited by Lonnie D. Kliever.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kliever, Lonnie D.

Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revolutions--Religious aspects.

Revolutions.

Physical Description:

xvi, 259 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Paragon House Publishers, [1987]

Contents:

Introduction / Lonnie D. Kliever

American republicanism and Christian piety / Stanley Johannesen

Order, chaos, and renunciation : the reign of dharma in modern India / Harvey P. Alper

Religion, ideology, and revolution : the problematical case of post-1979 Iran / Bruce B. Lawrence

Ideology in rural struggle : contradictions of popular movements in Highland Peru / William W. Stein

Revolution in the tradition of Jan Hus : the confluence of Christian religion and Marxist ideology in Czechoslovakia / Martin Rumscheidt

Religion, ideology, and economic justice / Richard L. Rubenstein

The religious legitimation of counterviolence : insights from Latin American liberation theology / William R. Jones

Religion and the problem of power : South Africa / Austin M. Ahanotu.

Notes:

Papers originally prepared for a symposium held in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the Washington Institute for Values in Public policy on the topic "Ideology, religion, and revolution."

Subtitle on cover: Essays on religion and revolution.

"A Washington Institute book."

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

0887022154

0887022146

OCLC:

14377306