Richard A. Horsley: Politics

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“Frightened by the specter of “Islamic fundamentalism” we readily reject the “extremism” of “fundamentalists” and identify with “moderation” and “rationality,” the ostensible “values” of “western civilization.” We thus acquiesce in the practices of the global corporations and western political power.”

Richard A. Horsley

Source: Religion and Empire: People, Power, and the Life of the Spirit (2003), p. 48

“Shiite Islam was revived and transformed by Iranians in direct reaction not only against western separation of religion from political-economic life, but more comprehensively against the transformation of their way of life by western political-economic power.”

Richard A. Horsley

Source: Religion and Empire: People, Power, and the Life of the Spirit (2003), p. 72

Life , Religion , Way

“Islamic revival sought the reunification of the spiritual with the social-political, and of contemporary life with cultural traditions, against the western imperialism that was forcing their separation.”

Richard A. Horsley

Source: Religion and Empire: People, Power, and the Life of the Spirit (2003), p. 52

Life

“Even though leading scholars … recognize that Paul's letters were not theological treatises, they still construct Pauline Christianity as if it were an already existing definable religion. And apparently because religion in the modern West is separate from political and economic affairs—indeed, more or less subject to an agreement not to conflict with political and economic affairs—scholarly constructions often simply ignore (or avoid) implications in the sources of engagement with political-economic affairs, particularly any implications of conflict with the dominant political-economic order.”

Richard A. Horsley

"Paul's assembly in Corinth: an alternative society," in Urban Religion in Corinth (Harvard: 2005), pp. 374-375.

Religion

“A key factor in [the revival of Shiite Islam in Iran] was the Iranians’ refusal to accept the western reduction of religion to individual faith, which would have enabled an easier imposition of a global capitalist political economy.”

Richard A. Horsley

Source: Religion and Empire: People, Power, and the Life of the Spirit (2003), p. 48

Faith , Religion

“Intensive measures of repression taken by the Shah to enforce his westernizing development program nearly eliminated effective political parties and forms of civil society other than activities in the mosques.”

Richard A. Horsley

Source: Religion and Empire: People, Power, and the Life of the Spirit (2003), p. 73

“The separation of religion from politics, and the historical emergence of Judaism and its spin-off, Christianity, however, did not develop until late antiquity; these institutions are a long-range result of the Romans’ use of political and military power to ensure that indigenous peoples’ commitment to their traditional way of life not interfere with their submission to the imperial order.”

Richard A. Horsley

Source: Religion and Empire: People, Power, and the Life of the Spirit (2003), pp. 74-75

Life , People , Religion , Way