...This chapter presents an anthropological account of the key ideas of Maududi, the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami. It first de-reifies the hegemonic portrayals of Maududi as a “fundamentalist” to see him instead as a political thinker. Central to his exposition on Islam were the use of reason, critique...

... family drew on the systems theory concept of runaway. Runaway in arms race policies, in turn, reflected political and theoretical conflicts between Norbert Weiner and John von Neumann, the leading mathematicians of the Macy Conferences on Cybernetics. In two essays, Bateson critiques the centrality...

...Thomas Jefferson was elected as President of the United States on February 19, 1801. This chapter examines Martha Jefferson Randolph's life as the president's daughter. As the president's daughter, Martha sometimes participated in the political business of the capital's social life and helped...

... the political crisis of the 1850s and these denominational schisms. It discusses similarities between religious divisions and secession. It addresses several factors demonstrating the relationship between religious and political separatism. The schisms within the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist...

... between the writings of Northern and Southern clergymen and it is further stated that the rhetorical unity between them caused the development of Southern religious nationalism. Both Northern and Southern clergymen expressed similar views on religion and politics and provided a providential interpretation...

...In this chapter, Robinson discusses the historical foundations for the political and the antipolitical, and the subsequent rise to prominence of the political over the antipolitical in particularly Western political theory and science. He also lays the groundwork for the questioning...

...In this chapter, Robinson discusses democracy and the political paradigm, consciousness of politicality as ideology, and the ideas of authority and order. Defining the political as a paradigm and look at its historical development, he ties its permanence in classical political theory and modern...

...This chapter dissects the role of heroes in forging a popular memory that co-existed with the existing political order. It explores the historical renderings of peasant movements and their leaders, specifically what happens when those renderings evolve into a collective enterprise to make a hero...

...This book begins with a discussion of the organizational dynamics of the Isma'ili Muslim community, which raise important questions about the nature of citizenship and political identity at this moment in history. The questions present a basic challenge to theoretical and popular understandings...

...This chapter discusses the issue of the sailor's freedom, which gained nationwide prominence in the United States. Likely reflecting differences in social class and political structures as well as the contrasting fortunes of their shipping industries, the “rights” of sailors undoubtedly figured...

...This chapter focuses on the years 1933 and 1934, when Cuba underwent revolutions, creating a climate of political anarchy. The situation, coupled with a legal system of dubious integrity, intensified the country's high level of illegal activity in general and its drug trafficking problem...

... black protest. However, this section of the book also demonstrates how black activists responded to their arrest and imprisonment by strategically connected white settler colonialism in southern Africa to racism in America. This resulted in political prisoners on both sides of the Atlantic being...

... and political dignitaries. Yet despite his departure from parish ministry for academe, Niebuhr retained an interest in and a fundamental respect for lay believers. He communicated his deep regard for the laity to generations of students at Union by telling two stories about his days at Bethel. One...

...This chapter examines the roles of European American women in the turbulent years leading to and following the Revolution. The tides of war that prompted struggling farmers and mechanics to assert their right to a political voice also ebbed and flowed around America's increasingly literate...

.... In particular, many Urban Leaguers believed that Afro-Americans' involvement with unions could enhance job performance, reduce racial tensions, and fortify black workers' commitment to mainstream political institutions. Ultimately, these three principles influenced the League's desire to affiliate...

...Despite the success of his employment at Harper's Weekly, Thomas Nast continued to experiment with other art forms and other avenues of self-expression. This chapter discusses the political themes that began to dominate Nast's work. The election of General U. S. Grant...

.... The personal political economies that pearls illuminated were often, if not always, at odds with official assessments of the jewel, which tried to remove them from their context and assign them arbitrary financial valuations. In art, pearls could be used to explore the supposed nature of different types...

...This chapter suggests that Josephus Daniels was arguably the mightiest man in North Carolina following the white supremacy campaigns of 1898 and 1900. Of the state's other leaders during those years, only Furnifold Simmons could rival Daniels in political clout, and beginning in 1901, Simmons spent...

...This chapter examines the successful formation of black and Irish politics coalitions in the city. It argues that interethnic coalition building was important for attaining political power and that black and Irish residents came together over ideas of a shared history of oppression, mutual support...

... of virtus in which political ideology and Velleius’ own version of historical reality blend together. Augustus Fortuna Freedom Germania province Principate Speeches Tiberius emperor Velleius Paterculus M Vice Woodman A Cassius Dio historian Character as personality Cornelius Tacitus P...