Faith and polity : essays on religion and politics /

Faith and polity : essays on religion and politics / [print] editors, Mart Bax, Peter Kloos, Adrianus Koster. - Amsterdam : VU University Press, (c)1992. - xiii, 252 pages ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Chap. 1. Religion, the subject and the state Chap. 2. Religion, state formation and white-settler societies; with special reference to Australia Chap. 3. Islam and the Islamic state: ambivalence and utopism Chap. 4. Islam and the history of the Libyan state Chap. 5. The Ulama of Madura: rise and expansion of a religious regime Chap. 6. Religious regimes and elite cultures in colonial New England: Puritan and Quaker influences in Connecticut and Rhode Island Chap. 7. The damaging abuse of attending mass in hacienda chapels; on rivalling religious regimes and state development in eighteenth-century Peru Chap. 8. Myths in politics and politics in religion: early state formation in Belize Chap. 9. On power and imagination: religious regimes and collective fantasies Chap. 10. Potential polities: Jewish saints in the Moroccan countryside and in Israel / Harvey E. Goldberg. Jonathan Friedman -- Bryan S. Turner -- Nico Kielstra -- John Davis -- Elly Touwen-Bouwsma -- Howard G. Schneiderman -- Fred Spier -- Charles J.M.R. Gullick and John Crane -- Bonno Thoden van Velzen --



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Religion and state.
Religion and politics.

BL65.K86.F358 1992