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Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th
century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks
of genocide since the First World War. And yet, not many scholars
have looked either at the religious aspects of modern genocide, or
at the manner in which religion has taken a position on mass
killing. This collection of essays addresses this hiatus by
examining the intersection between religion and state-organized
murder in the cases of the Armenian, Jewish, Rwandan, and Bosnian
genocides. Rather than a comprehensive overview, it offers a series
of descrete, yet closely related case studies, that shed light on
three fundamental aspects of this issue: the use of religion to
legitimize and motivate genocide; the potential of religious faith
to encourage physical and spiritual resistance to mass murder; and
finally, the role of religion in coming to terms with the legacy of
atrocity.
Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th
century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks
of genocide since the First World War. And yet, not many scholars
have looked either at the religious aspects of modern genocide, or
at the manner in which religion has taken a position on mass
killing. This collection of essays addresses this hiatus by
examining the intersection between religion and state-organized
murder in the cases of the Armenian, Jewish, Rwandan, and Bosnian
genocides. Rather than a comprehensive overview, it offers a series
of descrete, yet closely related case studies, that shed light on
three fundamental aspects of this issue: the use of religion to
legitimize and motivate genocide; the potential of religious faith
to encourage physical and spiritual resistance to mass murder; and
finally, the role of religion in coming to terms with the legacy of
atrocity.
This is a major 2008 study of the daily life and spirituality of
early Methodist men and women. Phyllis Mack challenges traditional,
negative depictions of early Methodism through an analysis of a
vast array of primary sources - prayers, pamphlets, hymns, diaries,
recipes, private letters, accounts of dreams, and rules for
housekeeping. She examines how ordinary men and women understood
the seismic shift from the religious culture of the seventeenth
century to the so-called 'disenchantment of the world' that
developed out of the Enlightenment. She places particular emphasis
on the experience of women, arguing that both their spirituality
and their contributions to the movement were different from men's.
This revisionist account sheds light on how ordinary people
understood their experience of religious conversion, marriage,
worship, sexuality, friendship, and the supernatural, and what
motivated them to travel the world as missionaries.
This book is a study of the relationship between ideology and
social behaviour. Professor Crew analyses the attitudes and
characters of the Calvinist ministers who preached in the
Netherlands in the mid-sixteenth century and their effect on the
popular religious upheavals which occurred during the summer of
1566. The hedge-preaching and iconoclasm which erupted in the
period before the Dutch Revolt have been the subject of
considerable speculation among historians, who have have developed
a variety of interpretations of these events. Professor Crew views
the Troubles in the broader context of the international Calvinist
movement and iconoclastic violence in France and England. She
questions whether the Netherlands ministers were clearly and
strongly Calvinist, whether they shared specific characteristics of
personality, social status or education, and whether they were
'charismatic leaders' in the sense given to the term by Max Weber.
This is a major new study of the daily life and spirituality of
early Methodist men and women. Phyllis Mack challenges traditional,
negative depictions of early Methodism through an analysis of a
vast array of primary sources - prayers, pamphlets, hymns, diaries,
recipes, private letters, accounts of dreams, rules for
housekeeping - many of which have never been used before. She
examines how ordinary men and women understood the seismic shift
from the religious culture of the seventeenth century to the
so-called 'disenchantment of the world' that developed out of the
Enlightenment. She places particular emphasis on the experience of
women, arguing that both their spirituality and their contributions
to the movement were different from men's. This revisionist account
sheds new light on how ordinary people understood their experience
of religious conversion, marriage, worship, sexuality, friendship,
and the supernatural, and what motivated them to travel the world
as missionaries.
This volume of essays reflects the interests and expertise of H. G.
Koenigsberger, Professor of History at King's College London, who
has written and taught widely on early modern Europe, from Sicily
and Spain to Germany, France and the Netherlands. The contributors
pay tribute to Koenigsberger's range of interest by taking up
themes that have resonated through his lectures, seminars and
public writings. What emerges from a variety of approaches and
topics is an overriding concern with intellectual unity, an
overview which encompasses and reconciles the values of the
politician or scholar with those of the spiritual idealist. Even
the most overtly political of the major cultural figures discussed
in these pages, as Robert Kingdon's essay on Calvin demonstrates,
bent their political will to the service of an intense spiritual
idealism.
This volume of essays reflects the interests and expertise of H. G.
Koenigsberger, Professor of History at King's College London, who
has written and taught widely on early modern Europe, from Sicily
and Spain to Germany, France and the Netherlands. The contributors
pay tribute to Koenigsberger's range of interest by taking up
themes that have resonated through his lectures, seminars and
public writings. What emerges from a variety of approaches and
topics is an overriding concern with intellectual unity, an
overview which encompasses and reconciles the values of the
politician or scholar with those of the spiritual idealist. Even
the most overtly political of the major cultural figures discussed
in these pages, as Robert Kingdon's essay on Calvin demonstrates,
bent their political will to the service of an intense spiritual
idealism.
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