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The Paradox of Liberation - Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions (Paperback)
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The Paradox of Liberation - Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions (Paperback)
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Loot Price R445
Discovery Miles 4 450
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A thought-provoking reflection on why secular national liberation
movements are so often challenged by militant religious revivals
Many of the successful campaigns for national liberation in the
years following World War II were initially based on democratic and
secular ideals. Once established, however, the newly independent
nations had to deal with entirely unexpected religious fierceness.
Michael Walzer, one of America's foremost political thinkers,
examines this perplexing trend by studying India, Israel, and
Algeria, three nations whose founding principles and institutions
have been sharply attacked by three completely different groups of
religious revivalists: Hindu militants, ultra-Orthodox Jews and
messianic Zionists, and Islamic radicals. In his provocative,
well-reasoned discussion, Walzer asks, Why have these secular
democratic movements been unable to reproduce their political
culture beyond one or two generations? In a postscript, he compares
the difficulties of contemporary secularism to the successful
establishment of secular politics in the early American
republic-thereby making an argument for American exceptionalism but
gravely noting that we may be less exceptional today.
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