Sowing the seeds of sacred : political religion of contemporary world order and American era / by Mika Aaltola
- Bib ID:
- 4456524
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- Author:
- Aaltola, Mika
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- Description:
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- Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008
- vii, 219 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9789004165632
- Series:
- International relations studies series, 1570-6451 ; v. 2.
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- Machine derived contents note: Contents
- Chapter One Introduction 1
- Chapter Two Epistemology of the Sacred 5
- 2.1. Rationalist vs. Religious Epistemology 5
- 2.2. Epistemology of Acknowledgement 6
- 2.3. Epistemology of Political Religion 7
- Chapter Three Theoretical Framework: Frames and Flows 13
- 3.1. Framing and Political Religion 14
- 3.2. Performers of the Frame 15
- 3.3. Framing and Flows: Space and Time 18
- 3.4. Frame-breaks: The Soviet Union 19
- 3.5. Managing the Flow of Events 21
- Chapter Four Political Religion of the American Empire 25
- 4.1. Political Religion 25
- 4.1.1. Civil Religion 27
- 4.2. American Political Religion of Imperialism 29
- 4.2.1. Empire as a Frame: Power 30
- 4.2.2. Empire as a Frame: Legitimacy 32
- 4.3. Increasing In?uence of Religion 36
- 4.4. American Political Religions: Orthodox and Progressive
- 38
- 4.5. Secular Humanitarian Imperialism 40
- 4.5.1. The English School of International Relations 41
- 4.6. World Politics and Imperialism 43
- Chapter Five Consumption of the Sacred 47
- Chapter Six Sacred Methods of Framing the American Empire
- 51
- 6.1. Western Cultural Resources of Framing 52
- 6.1.1. Political Innovation and Striking Images 52
- 6.1.2. Political Order and the Preternatural 54
- 6.1.3. Politico-religious Persuasion 56
- 6.2. Typology of Methods of the Sacred 58
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- Chapter Seven Hierophany 59
- 7.1. Miracles 59
- 7.2. Lazarus Effect 63
- 7.3. Designating the Sacred 66
- 7.3.1. West as Civilization 66
- 7.3.2. Human Pedigree 69
- 7.3.3. Sacred Values 70
- 7.4. Hierophany of Humanitarian War 71
- Chapter Eight Commitment 75
- 8.1. Reminders 75
- 8.2. Liturgy 80
- 8.3. The Worship of Saints and the Celestial Patria 82
- Chapter Nine Kratophany 89
- 9.1. Terra incognita 90
- 9.1.1. Becoming Terra Incognita 95
- 9.2. Holy Fanatics and Crusaders 97
- 9.3. Trial by Fire 101
- Chapter Ten Decontamination 109
- 10.1. Disease Language 109
- 10.1.1. Historical Sources of Disease Language 111
- 10.2. Irreverence and Contagion 113
- 10.2.1. Theories of Contagion 114
- 10.2.2. Irreverence 117
- 10.3. Dragon Slaying and Puri? cation 118
- Chapter Eleven Objecti? cation 125
- 11.1. Demonization 130
- Chapter Twelve Managing the Flow of Events 135
- 12.1. Managing the Flow and the Methods of the Sacred 136
- 12.2. Western Conceptualisations of Time 139
- 12.3. Flow of Politico-religious Time 141
- 12.3.1. Accents 141
- 12.3.2. Tempos 144
- Chapter Thirteen Morality Drama of Suspense: Declinism
- 147
- 13.1. Theories of Declinism 149
- 13.2. History of Declinism 151
- 13.2.1. Doom of the Soviet Empire 152
- 13.2.2. Modern Images of Declinism and Revivalism 155
- Chapter Fourteen Framing World Politics 159
- 14.1. Kosovo in 1992 and 1999 160
- 14.2. Resisting the Serbian Framing of Events 166
- 14.3. Sacred Politics of Imperialism in Kosovo 172
- Chapter Fifteen September 11th and the War on Terror 175
- 15.1. Afghanistan 178
- 15.2. Iraq 182
- 15.2.1. Call to the Crusaders: Powell Speaks at the U.N.
- 183
- 15.2.2. Kratophanic Trial by Fire: Operation Iraqi Freedom
- 187
- 15.2.3. Sacred Restoration: Mission Accomplished 190
- 15.2.4. Faith-based Missionism: Fighting Declinism 192
- Chapter Sixteen Restoring the American Empire 199
- 16.1. Imperial Sin 200
- 16.2. Sacred Moderation 203
- Sources 207
- Bibliography 211
- Index 217.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-216) and index.
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