By Robert Wuthnow
ISBN-10: 0415187400
ISBN-13: 9780415187404
Containing over 2 hundred articles from sought after students, The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion examines ways that politics and faith have mixed to impact social attitudes, spark collective motion and impact coverage over the past 2 hundred years.
With a spotlight that covers huge issues like millenarian hobbies and pluralism, and a scope that takes in non secular and political platforms through the international, the Encyclopedia is vital for its modern in addition to old assurance.
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Slavery's demise in N o r t h America came at the point of a changed. T h e British Parliament, bowing to public support for abolitionism that grew also from the popularization of 6 Abortion evangelical Christianity at the turn of the nineteenth century, in 1834 abolished slavery throughout its Caribbean colonies. By 1848 France, Holland, and Denmark had followed suit. In the Americas, the Haitian revolution led to official acts of abolition in several newly independent states of the re- Tomich, Dale W.
Against religious groups than the reverse. The range of interactions between politics and religion is W h e t h e r or not conflict and violence are involved, reli- suggested by the variety of organizations and activities that gion often interacts with politics in an adversarial role, par- constitute each institution. Some of these relationships are ticularly by helping to mobilize protest movements or o p - arm's-length, formal transactions, such as diplomatic negoti- position to established leaders and policies.
Many mainline Protestant denominations are circumstances, such as to save the life and health of the members of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive mother. A number of evangelical denominations, especially Choice, which seeks to ensure that abortion remains legal in fundamentalist Baptists and pentecostal Assemblies of God, the United States. have served as the organizational backbone of the pro-life In Europe, mainline Protestants and Catholics have occa- movement in the South and Midwest and have lent their sionally disagreed quite visibly on abortion politics, especial- considerable resources to opposing legal abortion.
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