
God's Rule
The Politics of World Religions
Suzanne Neusner(Editor)
Georgetown University Press
Published on 6. May 2003
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-87840-910-5 (ISBN)
Description
Resisting the tendency to separate the study of religion and politics, editor Jacob Neusner pulls together a collection of ten essays in which various authors explain 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 non-believers 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 and others can begin asking questions of relationships "both unavoidable and systematically uneasy."
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Language
English
Place of publication
Washington, DC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
With printed dust jacket
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 181 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
526 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87840-910-5 (9780878409105)
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Persons
Jacob Neusner is Senior Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. He is the author of several books on Judaism, including Judaism's Theological Voice: The Melody of the Talmud, A History of Jews in Babylonia and numerous analytical translations of Jewish texts.
Content
Introduction: Religion and Politics-A Volatile MixWilliam Scott Green 1. JudaismJacob Neusner2. Primitive and Early ChristianityBruce Chilton 3. Catholic ChristianityCharles E. Curran 4. Orthodox ChristianityPetros Vassiliadis 5. Reformation ChristianityMartin E. Marty 6. Classical IslamJohn L. Esposito and Natana J. De Long-Bas7. Modern IslamJohn L. Esposito and Natana J. De Long-Bas 8. HinduismBrian K. Smith9. ConfucianismMark A. Csikszentmihalyi 10. BuddhismTodd Lewis ConclusionTodd Lewis