Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Atkins, Gaius Glenn, 1868-1956

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The path to salvation religious violence from the Crusades to Jihad by Gregg, Heather S.

Table of Contents: “…Religion: love, peace, and the two salvations -- The causes of religious violence: from social movements to hastening the apocalypse -- The Christian crusades: from pilgrims to holy warriors -- Ayodhya: the Hindu nationalist battle for hindutva -- Buddhist violence in sri lanka: defending the dhammadipa -- Defending the dar al Islam: jihad in the nineteenth century and today -- Zion: the battle to define the Jewish nation and state -- How religious violence ends: spiritualizing the battle…”

Islamisation and its opponents in Java a political, social, cultural and religious history, c. 1930 to the present by Ricklefs, M. C. (Merle Calvin)

Table of Contents: “…I TROUBLED PATH TO DEEPER ISLAMISATION, TO C. 1998--ch. 1 Islamisation in Java to c. 1930--3Creating the Mystic Synthesis--Polarising Javanese society--ch. 2 Under colonial rule:Javanese society and Islam in the 1930--Social parameters: The census of 1930--impact of the Great Depression--Javanese life and culture in kraton and countrysid--Islam in Java: Reform, local traditions and mysticism--Abangan and santri--Polarised on the precipice--ch. 3 War and Revolution, 1942--: The hardening of boundaries--Japanese occupation--Revolution--Abangan-santri violence-- ch. 4 first freedom experiment: Aliran politics and Communist opposition to Islamisation, 1950--santri-abangan balance--Aliran in politics and culture, and the elections of 1955-7--violent conflicts of 1963-6--ch. 5 totalitarian experiment (I): Kebatinan, Christian and government competition and the end of aliran politics 1966-80s --Soeharto's spirituality--Abangan folk arts and cults in the early New Order-- Kebatian under the early New Order--Christianisation and other conversions away from Islam--Government competition--death of aliran politics and Islamisation from below--Modernists' laments at national level--Grass-roots purification movements in Surakarta in the 1970s--Modernist-led Islamisation--Deepening Islamisation by the early 1980s--Early New Order ironies-- New Order as an historicist state--ch. 6 totalitarian experiment (II): Grass-roots Islamisation and advancing Islamism, c. 1980s-98--changing, Islamising society--Regime demands for ideological conformity--Reconciliation between NU and the New Order regime--arts under the later New Order Revivalism, Islamism and the later Soeharto region--Java Islamised?…”

Education and hope in troubled times visions of change for our children's world /

Table of Contents: “…: toward a rationale for social movement building / Jean Anyon -- Mechanics of unfairness: how we undercut poor children's educational opportunity / Sue Books -- The moral and spiritual poverty of educational "leadership"-- and a hope for the future / Ulrich C. …”
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