Demons by Definition

Social Idealism, Religious Nationalism, and the Demonizing of Dissent

David K O'Rourke (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

147 Seiten

1998
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-3928-0 (ISBN)

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From the Albigensian Crusades to the wartime incarceration of the Japanese Americans, O'Rourke describes how idealists use language and metaphor to justify the demonization of groups they have defined into dissent. Among the episodes described are the development of the inquisitorial method in medieval Languedoc, the prosecution of women healers in Puritan Massachusetts, the persecution of the early Mormons, and Himmler's blueprint for an SS-owned feudal state in Eastern Europe.

The Author: Theologian, editor, and essayist, David K. O'Rourke writes extensively on current issues of culture and religion. Among his books are A Process Called Conversion and The Holy Land as Jesus Knew It. He also has been Professor of Pastoral Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley where he lives.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.12.1998
Reihe/Serie	Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics ; 35
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	400 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
ISBN-10	0-8204-3928-2 / 0820439282
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-3928-0 / 9780820439280
Zustand	Neuware