The Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War (review)

Africa Today ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-159
Author(s):  
Catherine Elkins
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Religious Dimension

British Sympathy for the South during the American Civil War and Reconstruction

2017 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-219
Author(s):  
Michael J. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
The South ◽  
Religious Conviction ◽  
Religious Dimension ◽  
The North ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Cultural Affinity ◽  
American Union ◽  
The Church

This article focuses on some of the religious factors that shaped the pro-Southern lobby in Britain during the American Civil War and Reconstruction. British opinion cannot be explained only in terms of class and party. In exploring other determinants, the ideas and activities of wealthy High Churchman and Conservative politician Beresford Hope offer promising avenues of inquiry, for Hope saw in the American Union, and Southern secession, a religious dimension, represented most clearly in the Episcopal Church. To the more familiar (to historians) reasons why the South gained support in Britain—relating to economic and political interests—Hope added a deeper commitment arising from a sense of cultural affinity (the “Englishness” of the South) and from religious conviction (to him the Church, and indeed Christianity, seemed stronger in the South than in the North). This indicates a belief that Britain and the South were bound together by common Christian civilization.

Appropriating a space for violence: State Buddhism in southern Thailand

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Jerryson
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Focal Points ◽  
Martial Law ◽  
Religious Dimension ◽  
Shared Space ◽  
Southern Thailand

In southern Thailand, monasteries once served as focal points for different communal identities to negotiate shared space and, with it, shared identities. However, since martial law was declared in 2004, Muslims in southern Thailand do not frequent monasteries. Instead, soldiers and police occupy monastery buildings and protect the perimeters from attacks. In addition, there are now military monks, soldiers who are simultaneously ordained monks, who work to protect the monasteries. This article argues that the Thai State's militarisation of monasteries and the role of Buddhist monks fuel a religious dimension to the ongoing civil war in southern Thailand.

scholarly journals Agama Sipil di Amerika Serikat: Telaah Terhadap Gagasan dan Peran Robert N. Bellah

Simulacra ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Ahmad Sahidah
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Civil Religion ◽  
The United States ◽  
American People ◽  
Declaration Of Independence ◽  
Religious Dimension ◽  
State Practice ◽  
The World ◽  
Civil Order

<p><em>This article will unravel the emergence of civil religion in the United States that cannot be separated from America’s long history, since the civil war, the declaration of independence and the influence of enlightenment and Christian values (especially Protestantism) that are deeply embedded in the American people. He was born as a recognition of the highest values, not one of the denominations of Christianity itself. At the same time, as a criticism of the use of religious symbols in official state practice. With the hermeneutic reading of Bellah’s works, it can be concluded that civil religion is inevitable, because each group has a religious dimension. To say that there is no civil religion, is to say that the civitas, the civil order itself does not exist, it should not appear. Each group produces communal symbols and rituals that give instructions and tie them together. Thus, civil religion does not only belong to America, it can belong to other nations in the world.</em></p>

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