UID:
almafu_9959235191102883
Format:
1 online resource (234 p.)
ISBN:
1-280-59654-6
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9786613626370
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0-253-00714-3
Content:
Claiming Society for God focuses on common strategies employed by religiously orthodox, fundamentalist movements around the world. Rather than employing terrorism, as much of post-9/11 thinking suggests, these movements use a patient, under-the-radar strategy of infiltrating and subtly transforming civil society. Nancy J. Davis and Robert V. Robinson tell the story of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Shas in Israel, Comunione e Liberazione in Italy, and the Salvation Army in the United States. They show how these movements build massive grassroots networks of religiously based social servic
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contesting the state by bypassing it -- The Muslim brotherhood: building a state within a state in Egypt -- The Sephardi Torah guardians: penetrating the Israeli state to circumvent it -- Comunione e liberazione: laying the building blocks of a parallel Christian society in Italy -- The Salvation Army USA: doing good to hasten the second coming.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-00238-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-00234-6
Language:
English
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