A History of Orthodox, Islamic, and Western Christian Political Values
The book reveals the nexus between religion and politics today and shows that we live in an interdependent world where one global civilization is emerging and where the world’s peoples are continuing to coalesce around a series of values that contain pote
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A History of Orthodox, Islamic, and Western Christian Political Values
Dennis J. Dunn
A History of Orthodox, Islamic, and Western Christian Political Values
Dennis J. Dunn Texas State University San Marcos, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-32566-8 ISBN 978-3-319-32567-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-32567-5
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
To write this book I have drawn upon the research of others and my own research often in collaboration with others. My earlier work on the Catholic Church in Soviet Russia had the good fortune to win the enthusiastic support of Rev. Canon Michael Bourdeaux, the founder of the Keston Institute, formerly the Centre for the Study of Religion and Communism, and of Keston’s chairman, Sir John Lawrence. My research there was broadened by collaborating with Bourdeaux on a Ford Foundation project that focused on religion in Soviet Russia and Communist East Europe. I also had the good luck of being a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science where Leonard Schapiro and Peter Reddaway broadened my understanding of Communism. This book was also deeply influenced by my historical work in the USA and Canada with Bohdan Bociurkiw of Carleton University, who was the world’s leading authority on religion in Ukraine, and V. Stanley Vardys of the University of Oklahoma, who wrote a pivotal book on the Catholic Church in Soviet Lithuania. It was also enhanced by Alexandre Benningsen, who enriched my knowledge of Islam and later made it possible for me to win a research fellowship at the Centre d’études sur l’U.R.S.S. et l’Europe Orientales, Ecole pratique des hautes études in Paris.
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