Religious Anarchism
Subtitle: New Perspectives
By: edited by Alexandre J.M.E. Christoyannopoulos.
Contributors: Christoyannopoulos, Alexandre J. M. E.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9781443811323
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Anarchism; Christian philosophy; Religion and politics
Description: Both religion and anarchism have been increasingly politically active of late. This edited volume presents twelve chapters of fresh scholarship on diverse facets of the area where they meet: religious anarchism. The book is structured along three themes: early Christian anarchist 'pioneers,' including Pelagius, Coppe, Hungarian Nazarenes, and Dutch Christian anarchists; Christian anarchist reflections on specific topics such as Kierkegaardian indifference, Romans 13, Dalit religious practice, and resistance to race and nation; religious anarchism in other traditions, ranging from Wu Nengzi s Daoism and Rexroth s Zen Buddhism to various currents of Islam, including an original Anarca-Islamic 'clinic.' This unique book therefore furthers scholarship on anarchism, on millenarian and revolutionary thinkers and movements, and on religion and politics. It is also of value to members of the wider public interested in radical politics and in the political implications of religion. And of course, it is relevant to those interested in any of the specific themes and thinkers focused on within individual chapters. In short, this book presents a range of innovative perspectives on a web of topics that, while held together by the common thread of religious anarchism, also speaks to numerous broader themes which have been increasingly prominent in the twenty-first century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: PREFACE
pagenum: vii; title: INTRODUCTION BY PETER MARSHALL
pagenum: xiii; label: I
title: Christian Anarchist Pioneers; label: 1
title: The Pelagian Mentality: Radical Political Thought in Fifth Century Christianity by Richard Fitch
pagenum: 2; label: 2
title: A Theology of Revolutions: Abiezer Coppe and the Uses of Tradition by Peter Pick
pagenum: 30; label: 3
title: Religious Dissenters and Anarchists in Turn of the Century Hungary by Bojan Aleksov
pagenum: 47; label: 4
title: A Dead Seed Bearing Much Fruit: The Dutch Christian Anarchist Movement of the International Fraternity by André de Raaij
pagenum: 69; label: II
title: Christian Anarchist Reflections; label: 5
title: Love, Hate, and Kierkegaard’s Christian Politics of Indifference by Richard A. Davis
pagenum: 82; label: 6
title: Responding to the State: Christian Anarchists on Romans 13, Rendering to Caesar, and Civil Disobedience by Alexandre J. M. E. Christoyannopoulos
pagenum: 106; label: 7
title: Building a Dalit World in the Shell of the Old: Conversations between Dalit Indigenous Practice and Western Anarchist Thought by Keith Hebden
pagenum: 145; label: 8
title: The Church as Resistance to Racism and Nation: A Christian, Anarchist Perspective by Nekeisha Alexis-Baker
pagenum: 166; label: III
title: Buddhist, Daoist, and Muslim Anarchism; label: 9
title: Anarchism or Nihilism: The Buddhist-Influenced Thought of Wu Nengzi by John A. Rapp
pagenum: 202; label: 10
title: Kenneth Rexroth’s Integrative Vision: Anarchism, Poetry, and the Religious Experience in Post-World War II San Francisco by Michael T. Van Dyke
pagenum: 226; label: 11
title: To Be Condemned to a Clinic: The Birth of the Anarca-Islamic Clinic by Mohamed Jean Veneuse
pagenum: 249; label: 12
title: Imagining an Islamic Anarchism: A New Field of Study Is Ploughed by Anthony T. Fiscella
pagenum: 280; title: Contributors
pagenum: 318; title: Index
pagenum: 323