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The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions
By Walzer, Michael
- ISBN
- 9780300187809
- Publisher
- Yale Univ.
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Reviewed on March 1, 2015 | Social Sciences
In this slim but stimulating volume, Walzer (professor emeritus, the Inst. for Advanced Study; Just and Unjust Wars) examines three states created after World War II: India, Israel, and Algeria. In particular, the author's focus is on the parallel pattern in which each state was birthed by a secular political liberation movement and then challenged approximately 25 years later by a militant fundamentalist religious move...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
