Faith and Politics

El siguiente libro desarrolla la relación entre la Iglesia y el Estado en la vida sociopolítica venezolana desde el siglo XIX hasta inicios del XXI, ofreciendo no sólo una lectura histórica, sino también una teológica de las distintas etapas y temas que entretejen su entramado.

It has been said that we love what we’re willing to die for. The history of this country reveals an abundance of readiness on the part of her citizens to heartily die for her preservation and future. America has no shortage of war heroes, those to whom we look for inspiration and whose courage we praise. How does this most immediate of passions relate to what should be our deepest passion for the prophetic, cruciformity demanded of the Christian Gospel? Can love for God and love for the nation-state peacefully coexist? What is a “Christian nation”? Is this an oxymoron? Is it even advisable? When is it apparent that the latter has trumped the former? Doesn’t the Bible make clear the need for us to live, move and have our being within indigenous cultural contexts? How does nationalism harm our spiritual formation? 

In both research and a largely anecdotal way, I herein strive to answer some of these questions.

Citizens and Believers helps to lay a new path for thinking about the Cristero Rebellion specifically, but also for considering the intersections among religious
faith, politics, modernity, and violence. It offers both specific detail and theoretical framing. The book will be useful for advanced graduate students seeking to
understand revolutionary Mexico and for researchers in the field of religious studies.

Blog highlights the publication of 'Blue Labour: forging a new politics’ ' co-edited by Adrian Pabst and Ian Geary (IB Tauris, 2015); and situates Blue Labour as a political practice which is pro-faith, post-secular and post-liberal in disposition.

The article refers to the insights of Stanley Hauerwas who demonstrated that 'Watership Down' instructs us of the importance of stories to social and political life.