Library Catalogue
Crossing the Gods : World religious and wordly politics (Record no. 38669)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20210510114230.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780813532073 |
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| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 291.177000 |
| Item number | DEM |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Demerath N J |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Crossing the Gods : World religious and wordly politics |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Rutgers University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2001 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 284p |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price amount | Gratis |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Summary: <br/>Crossing the Godsexamines the sometimes antagonistic and sometimes cozy but always difficult and dangerous relationship between religion and politics in countries around the globe. <br/><br/>Eminent sociologist of religion Jay Demerath traveled to Brazil, China, Egypt, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Northern Ireland, Pakistan, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, and Thailand to explore the history and current relationship of religion, politics, and the state in each country. In the first part of this wide-ranging book, he asks, What are the basic fault lines along which current tensions and conflicts have formed? What are the trajectories of change from past to present, and how do they help predict the future?<br/><br/>In the book's second part the author returns home to focus on the United States the only nation founded specifically on the principle of a separation between religion and state and examines the extent to which this principle actually holds and the consequences when it does not. Highlighting such issues as culture wars, violence, globalization, and the fluidity of individual religious identity, Demerath exposes the provincialism and fallacies underlying many of our views of religion and politics worldwide.Finally, Demerath examines America's status as the world's most religious nation. He places that claim within a comparative context and argues that our country is not ""more religious" but ""differently religious." He argues that it represents a unique combination of congregational religion, religious pluralism, and civil religion. But the United States also illustrates the universal tendency for the sacred to give way to the secular and for the secular to generate new forms of the sacred. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | 1. Religion & Politics - U S A |
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| Not For Loan | . | . | Mansfield Section | 30.05.2017 | 291.177 DEM | 32972 | 30.05.2017 | 30.05.2017 | BOOKs |