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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Wuthnow, Robert (1946-....)
Titre(s) : Religion's power [Texte imprimé] : what makes it work / Robert Wuthnow
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Oxford University press, copyright 2023
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (241 p.) ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"In 1903, a representative from the Salvation Army's headquarters in London traveled
to Canada to explore the possibility of relocating Britain's poor overseas. Over the
next three decades, a quarter of a million people were shipped to destinations in
Canada, Australia, and Africa. More than a hundred thousand of those deported were
children: abandoned, orphaned, and otherwise separated from their natural parents.
Dozens of religious organizations took part in the effort: the Catholic Emigration
Association, Church of England Society for Empire Settlement, Church of Scotland,
Inter-Church Immigration Committee, Jewish Immigrant Aid Society, Methodist Church,
Presbyterian Church, Society of Friends, St. Vincent de Paul, and the United Church
of Canada, among others. The practice resumed on a smaller scale after World War II
and continued until 1970. The agencies involved described their activities in the
language of salvation, moral uplift, and service to God. "Carrying off the children
of distress to the lands beyond the sea," one of the organizers wrote, was a service
"to religion, humanity and civilization.""
Sujet(s) : Religion -- Philosophie
Influence (psychologie)
Pouvoir (théologie chrétienne)
Indice(s) Dewey :
201.76 (23e éd.) = Problèmes et services sociaux
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780197652534
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb472514214
Notice n° :
FRBNF47251421
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: religion and power ; Power in ritual practice ; Religion's discursive
power ; The institutional power of religion ; Religion and identity power ; Religion
and political power
