Demons by Definition: Social Idealism, Religious Nationalism, and the Demonizing of Dissent (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820439280)

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Demons by Definition: Social Idealism, Religious Nationalism, and the Demonizing of Dissent

$52.95

Demons by Definition: Social Idealism, Religious Nationalism, and the Demonizing of Dissent

$52.95
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Irmengard Rauch,David K. O'Rourke
ISBN-10: 0820439282
ISBN-13: 9780820439280
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 12/01/1998
Pages: 147
Format: Hardcover
By Irmengard Rauch
By Irmengard Rauch
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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.

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