Opis: God-Botherers and Other True Believers - F.G. Bailey, F Bailey

When reason fails to guide us in our everyday lives, we turn to faith, to religion; we close our minds; we reject austere reasoning. This rejection, which is a faith-based social and intellectual malignancy, has two unfortunate consequences: it blocks the way to knowledge that might enhance the quality of life and it opens the way to charlatans who exploit the faith of others. Examining two unquestionable malignancies of the Christian RightA" in present-day politics in the United States and the secular religionA" of Hitler's National Socialism, as well as the third, more complex case of Gandhi, the author asserts that we need religion, but we also need to make sure it does no harm.Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: FAITH AND POLITICS Chapter 1. Faith, Reason and Consequences Three kinds of faith Only believe! Humanism Oneness A Point of View Chapter 2. Religion and Persuasion in Politics Religion and Political Involvement The Problem of Order What should go on and what does go on Defining Situations Information Costs: Political Clairvoyance Creating Trust Persuading Reality-testing PART II ANTAGONISTIC RELIGIONS Chapter 3. Desert, Marketplace, and Forum The Religious Right (and Left) Hypocrisy Render therefore unto Caesar Modes of Clerical Involvement in Politics Antagonism Paraclerics: Repenting Religion as a Weapon: Mrs. Schiavo The Religious Mode of Political Persuasion Chapter 4. The Need for Enemies Pol Pot and Secular Religion Ardent and Even Hysterical PassionsA" Manufacturing Enemies Group Sentiment and Violence Hitler's Faith Fascism and Christian Fascism PART III: A RELIGION OF LOVE Chapter 5. Gandhi: The Freedom Fight The Freedom-Fight Peacemaking Failures Chapter 6. Gandhi's Charisma Calculation Charisma: the Mass Audience Charisma: Elite and Entourage Single-Mindedness Chapter 7. Gandhi's Religion and Political Reality Gandhi and Hitler Faith and Responsibility Secular Disciplines in the Freedom Fight Gandhian Morality and SectarianA" religions Gandhi's Universalism and Political Action Chapter 8. The First Cause and the Last Word Propagating the Faith Walk Gently Morality and Evolution Oneness and its consequences: diseducation Oneness and its consequences: strife Diseducation and Authority Only Think! References Index

Szczegóły: God-Botherers and Other True Believers - F.G. Bailey, F Bailey

Tytuł: God-Botherers and Other True Believers
Autor: F.G. Bailey, F Bailey
Producent: Berghahn Books Ltd.
ISBN: 9781845455125
Rok produkcji: 2008
Ilość stron: 244
Oprawa: Twarda

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