1st Edition

Politics and the Religious Imagination

Edited By John Dyck, Paul Rowe, Jens Zimmermann Copyright 2010
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Politics and the Religious Imagination is the product of a group of interdisciplinary scholars each analyzing the connections between religious narratives and the construction of regional and global politics, combining a set of theoretical and philosophic insights with several case studies that represent varied geographies and religious customs. The past decade has seen increasing interest... Read more

1. Introduction Rowe, Zimmermann, and Dyck  Section One: Imagining Religion and Politics  2. Politics and the Religious Imagination Richard Kearney  3. Imagining the Catechism of the Citizen Simon Critchley  4. Catechising the Secular Imagination: a Response to Simon Critchley Jens Zimmermann  Section Two: The Religious Imagination in American Politics  5. Agents of Change: Lyndon Johnson, Catholics, and Civil Rights Lawrence McAndrews  6. Narrating Desire: the Gospel of Wealth in Christian America David Gutterman  7. Green for God: Religious Environmentalists in the United States Andrew Pieper  8. Understanding Jewish Women and their Efforts to Secure Political Power Terri Fine  Section Three: The Religious Imagination in Global Politics  9. Accomodating the Other: Lessons from Encounters between Christianity and Confucianism in Early Modern China Hassan Bashir  10. Charles Taylor’s Modernity in a Latin American Catholicism Gustavo Morello  11. Telling Multiple Stories: the BJP’s Appeal to Group-Specific Interests and the Hindutva Master Frame Shelly Ghai  12. Crosscutting Narratives: Diaspora and Indigenous Movements among Coptic Christians in Egypt Paul Rowe  13. Conclusion Rowe, Zimmermann and Dyck

Biography

Paul S. Rowe is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Trinity Western University

Jens Zimmermann is Professor of English and Canada Research Chair in Religion, Interpretation and Culture at Trinity Western University

John H. A. Dyck is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Trinity Western University

All three are senior research fellows in the Religion, Culture, and Conflict Research Group based at Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia, Canada.