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Claiming society for God : religious movements and social welfare in Egypt, Israel, Italy, and the United States / Nancy J. Davis and Robert V. Robinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Nancy Jean, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and social status.
- Religion and sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (234 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Claiming Society for God focuses on common strategies employed by religiously orthodox, fundamentalist movements around the world. Rather than employing terrorism, as much of post-9/11 thinking suggests, these movements use a patient, under-the-radar strategy of infiltrating and subtly transforming civil society. Nancy J. Davis and Robert V. Robinson tell the story of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Shas in Israel, Comunione e Liberazione in Italy, and the Salvation Army in the United States. They show how these movements build massive grassroots networks of religiously based social servic
- Contents:
- Contesting the state by bypassing it
- The Muslim brotherhood: building a state within a state in Egypt
- The Sephardi Torah guardians: penetrating the Israeli state to circumvent it
- Comunione e liberazione: laying the building blocks of a parallel Christian society in Italy
- The Salvation Army USA: doing good to hasten the second coming.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613626370
- 9781280596544
- 1280596546
- 9780253007148
- 0253007143
- OCLC:
- 794663273
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