Religion, Politics, and the Christian Right: Post-9/11 Powers and American EmpireFortress Press - 194 pagini Princeton theologian Mark Taylor analyzes right-wing Christian movements in the United States amid the powers of religion, politics, empire, and corporate classes in post-9/11 USA.The real gift of Taylor's book is his argument that this militant Christian faith must be viewed against a backdrop of the American political romanticism and corporatist liberalism of U.S. past and present. Taylor uses the best of cultural and historical studies, while deftly drawing lessons for American readers from theologian Paul Tillich's analysis of power and religion during the rise of fascism and nationalism in Germany of the 1930s.The result is an innovative framework for interpreting how Christian nationalists, Pentagon war planners and corporate institutions today are forging alliances in the U.S. that have dramatic and destructive global impact. Moving beyond lament, Taylor also leaves readers with a new romance of revolutionary traditions and a new more radical liberalism, revitalizing American visions of spirit that are both prophetic and public for U.S. residents today. |
Cuprins
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A Tradition of Prophetic Spirit | 9 |
Specters of Empire | 13 |
Plan of the Book | 14 |
Evil in Public Life Today | 17 |
The Just War against Terror Scholars | 19 |
On Understanding Terrorism as Evil | 23 |
Todays AntiLiberal Modernism | 83 |
The Specter of Prophetic Spirit | 96 |
Prophetic Spirit as Broadening and Deepening Being | 97 |
Prophetic Spirit after 911 | 102 |
The Prophetic as Spirit | 104 |
Revolutionary Belonging | 110 |
Revolutionary Subject | 112 |
Revolutionary Tradition | 115 |
Evil as Distortion of the Good | 28 |
The 911 Moment | 35 |
The Historic Moment | 37 |
The Mythic Moment | 39 |
Mythic Restoration and Two Streams of American Nationalism | 42 |
The Specter of American Romanticism | 47 |
Belonging Being and American Romanticism | 48 |
Romanticism and the 911 Moment | 52 |
The Christian Right as Religious Revolutionary Romanticists | 53 |
The Neoconservatives as Secular Revolutionary Romanticists | 62 |
A Deadly Alliance? | 66 |
The Specter of Contractual Liberalism | 71 |
Expectant Being and Contractual Liberalism | 72 |
Contractual Liberalism and the 911 Moment | 80 |
Revolutionary Mythic Language | 118 |
Prophetic Spirit the Specter of the Hydra | 120 |
Revolutionary Expectation | 124 |
Toward a Radical Liberalism | 125 |
Radical Liberalism and Liberalism | 127 |
Agents of Revolutionary Expectation | 129 |
Genres of Revolutionary Expectation | 141 |
Practices of Revolutionary Expectation | 147 |
Christian Faith and Counter imperial Practice | 156 |
Gospel | 158 |
Reconciliatory Emancipation | 160 |
Notes | 164 |
Index | 187 |
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Pagina 7 - torture' means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind...
Pagina 157 - I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order...
Pagina 159 - For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth ; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Pagina 99 - Living as we did — on the edge — we developed a particular way of seeing reality. We looked both from the outside in and from the inside out. We focused our attention on the center as well as on the margin. We understood both.
Pagina 29 - Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
Pagina 29 - Or how can you say to your neighbor, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' while the log is in your own eye?
Pagina 31 - Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
Pagina 110 - These sheep, simple as they are, cannot be gulled as heretofore. In short, there is no ruling them ; and now, to leave the metaphor, the heads of the mobility grow dangerous to the gentry, and how to keep them down is the question.
Pagina 30 - Sin is not something that pertains severally to each individual and exists in relation to him by himself, but in each the work of all, and in all the work of each; and only in its corporate character can it be properly and fully understood.
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