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Displacing the State
Religion and Conflict in Neoliberal Africa
Edited by James Howard Smith and Rosalind I. J. Hackett
Foreword by R. Scott Appleby
In colonial Africa, Christianity has often supported, sustained, and legitimated a violent process of governance. More recently, however, following decades of violence and oppression, churches and religious organizations have mobilized African publics against corrupt and abusive regimes and facilitated new forms of reconciliation and cooperation. It is the purpose of Displacing the State: Religion and Conflict in Neoliberal Africa to illustrate the nature of religion’s ambivalent power in Africa while suggesting new directions in the study of religion, conflict, and peace studies, with a specific focus on sub-Saharan Africa.
As the editors make clear, most of the literature on conflict…
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Persistence of the Sacred in Modern Thought
Edited by Chris L. Firestone and Nathan A. Jacobs
In The Persistence of the Sacred in Modern Thought, Chris L. Firestone, Nathan A. Jacobs, and thirteen other contributors examine the role of God in the thought of major European philosophers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. The philosophers considered are, by and large, not orthodox theists; they are highly influential freethinkers, emancipated by an age no longer tethered to the authority of church and state. While acknowledging this fact, the contributors are united in arguing that this is only one side of a complex story. To redress the imbalance of attention to secularism among crucial modern thinkers and…
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Mark Roche honored for "Why Choose the Liberal Arts?"
Mark Roche, formerly dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame, has been named winner of the 2011 Frederic W. Ness Book Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). The Ness award is given annually to the book that best illuminates…
THE NEIGHBORING TEXT selected as CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
The Neighboring Text: Chaucer, Boccaccio, Henryson by George Edmondson has been selected for inclusion in CHOICES’s annual Outstanding Academic Title list, which appears in their January 2012 issue.
This year’s Outstanding Academic Titles have been selected for their excellence in scholarship and presentation, the significance of their contribution to…
