Essays in Anarchism and Religion
Subtitle: Volume 3
Contributors: Adams, Matthew S.; Christoyannopoulos, Alexandre; Adams, Matthew S.
Series: Essays in Anarchism and Religion, 3; Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion, 7
Publisher: Stockholm University Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Stockholm, Sweden
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9789176351086
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Comparative religion; Political ideologies; Religion & politics; Society & culture: general; General & world history; Political activism
Description: Anarchism and religion have historically had an uneasy relationship. Indeed, representatives of both sides have regularly insisted on the fundamental incompatibility of anarchist and religious ideas and practices. Yet, ever since the emergence of anarchism as an intellectual and political movement, a considerable number of religious anarchists have insisted that their religious tradition necessarily implies an anarchist political stance.

Reflecting both a rise of interest in anarchist ideas and activism on the one hand, and the revival of religious ideas and movements in the political sphere on the other, this multi-volume collection examines congruities and contestations between the two from a diverse range of academic perspectives.

The third volume of Essays in Anarchism & Religion includes five essays focusing on particular individuals (Abraham Heyn, Leo Tolstoy, Herbert Read, Daniel Guérin and Martin Buber), one essay on the affinities between mysticism and anarchism, and one surveying the vast territory of ‘spiritual anarchism’.

In a world where political ideas increasingly matter once more, and religion is an increasingly visible aspect of global political life, these essays offer scholarly analysis of overlooked activists, ideas and movements, and as such reveal the possibility of a powerful critique of contemporary global society.

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English
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: ix; title: Anarchism, Religion, and the Religiousness of Political Ideologies, Alexandre Christoyannopoulos & Matthew S. Adams
pagenum: 1; title: Abraham Heyn’s Jewish Anarcho-Pacifism, Hayyim Rothman
pagenum: 21; title: Tolstoy’s Christian Anarcho-Pacifism: An Exposition, Alexandre Christoyannopoulos
pagenum: 71; title: Community, Communion, and Communism: Religion and Spirituality in Herbert Read’s Anarchism, Matthew S. Adams
pagenum: 119; title: Revolution as Redemption: Daniel Guérin, Religion and Spirituality, David Berry
pagenum: 151; title: Martin Buber’s Notion of Grace as a Defense of Religious Anarchism, Sarah Scott
pagenum: 189; title: Contra Externalisation: Analogies between Anarchism and Mysticism, Stefan Rossbach
pagenum: 223; title: From Benign Anarchy to Divine Anarchy: A Critical Review of “Spiritual Anarchism”, Anthony Fiscella
pagenum: 255; title: Contributors
pagenum: 327; title: Index
pagenum: 329