The Terrible meek : essays on religion and revolution /

The Terrible meek : essays on religion and revolution / edited by Lonnie D. Kliever. - New York : Paragon House Publishers, c1987. - xvi, 259 p. ; 23 cm.

"A Washington Institute book." Papers originally prepared for a symposium held in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the Washington Institute for Values in Public policy on the topic "Ideology, religion, and revolution." Subtitle on cover: Essays on religion and revolution.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction / Lonnie D. Kliever -- American republicanism and Christian piety / Stanley Johannesen --Order, chaos, and renunciation : the reign of dharma in modern India / Harvey P. Alper -- Religion, ideology, and revolution : the problematical case of post-1979 Iran / Bruce B. Lawrence -- Ideology in rural struggle : contradictions of popular movements in Highland Peru / William W. Stein -- Revolution in the tradition of Jan Hus : the confluence of Christian religion and Marxist ideology in Czechoslovakia / Martin Rumscheidt -- Religion, ideology, and economic justice / Richard L. Rubenstein -- The religious legitimation of counterviolence : insights from Latin American liberation theology / William R. Jones -- Religion and the problem of power : South Africa / Austin M. Ahanotu.

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Revolutions--Religious aspects.

BL65.R48 / T47 1987

291.1 / K682t