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Vanguard of the Imam - Afshon (senior Analyst Ostovar - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Vanguard of the Imam - Afshon (senior Analyst Ostovar - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Iran''s Revolutionary Guards are one of the most important forces in the Middle East today. As the appointed defender of Iran''s revolution, the Guards have evolved into a pillar of the Islamic Republic and the spearhead of its influence. Their sway has spread across the Middle East, where the Guards have overseen loyalist support to Bashar al-Assad in Syria and been a staunch backer in Iraq''s war against ISIS. In spite of their prominence, the Guards remain poorly understood to outside observers. In Vanguard of the Imam, Afshon Ostovar has written the first comprehensive history of the organization. Situating the rise of the Guards in the larger contexts of Shiite Islam, modern Iranian history, and international politics, Ostovar account of the Guards'' history since 1979 demystifies the organization. Politics, power, and religion collide in this story, wherein the Revolutionary Guards transform from a rag-tag militia established in the midst of revolutionary upheaval into a military and covert force with a global reach. As he shows, the Guards have been fundamental to the success of the Islamic revolution, and their symbiotic relationship with the clerical leadership has been fundamental to the regime''s ability to retain power. They have also exported Iran''s revolution beyond its borders, establishing client armies in their image and extending Iran''s strategic footprint in the process. Ostovar tenaciously documents the Guards'' transformation into a power player and explores why the group matters now more than ever in both the region and the wider world.

DKK 329.00
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Vanguard of the Imam - Afshon (senior Analyst Ostovar - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Vanguard of the Imam - Afshon (senior Analyst Ostovar - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Iran''s Revolutionary Guards are one of the most important forces in the Middle East today. As the appointed defender of Iran''s revolution, the Guards have evolved into a pillar of the Islamic Republic and the spearhead of its influence. Their sway has spread across the Middle East, where the Guards have overseen loyalist support to Bashar al-Assad in Syria and been a staunch backer in Iraq''s war against ISIS-bringing its own troops, Lebanon''s Hezbollah, and Shiite militias to the fight. Links to terrorism, human rights abuses, and the suppression of popular democracy have shrouded the Revolutionary Guards in controversy. In spite of their prominence, the Guards remain poorly understood to outside observers. In Vanguard of the Imam, Afshon Ostovar has written the first comprehensive history of the organization. Situating the rise of the Guards in the larger contexts of Shiite Islam, modern Iranian history, and international affairs, Ostovar takes a multifaceted approach in demystifying the organization and detailing its evolution since 1979. Politics, power, and religion collide in this story, wherein the Revolutionary Guards transform from a rag-tag militia established in the midst of revolutionary upheaval into a military and covert force with a global reach. The Guards have been fundamental to the success of the Islamic revolution. The symbiotic relationship between them and Iran''s clerical rulers underpins the regime''s nearly unshakeable system of power. The Guards have used their privileged position at home to export Iran''s revolution beyond its borders, establishing client armies in their image and extending Iran''s strategic footprint in the process. Ostovar tenaciously documents the Guards'' transformation into a power-player and explores why the group matters now more than ever to regional and global affairs. The book simultaneously serves as a history of modern Iran, and provides a crucial and engrossing entryway into the complex world of war, politics, and identity in the Middle East.

DKK 475.00
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China's New Red Guards - Jude (Freeman Chair in China Studies Blanchette

China's New Red Guards - Jude (Freeman Chair in China Studies Blanchette

In China's New Red Guards, Jude Blanchette illuminates two trends in contemporary China that point to its revival of Mao Zedong's legacy-a development that he argues will result in a more authoritarian and more militaristic China. This book not only reshapes our understanding of the political forces driving contemporary China, it also demonstrates how ideologies can survive and prosper despite pervasive rumors of their demise.

DKK 183.95
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China's New Red Guards - Jude ) Blanchette - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Booktok.dk

China's New Red Guards - Jude ) Blanchette - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Booktok.dk

Ever since Deng Xiaoping effectively de-radicalized China in the 1980s, there have been many debates about which path China would follow. Would it democratize? Would it embrace capitalism? Would the Communist Party''s rule be able to withstand the adoption and spread of the Internet? One debate that did not occur in any serious way, however, was whether Mao Zedong would make a political comeback. As Jude Blanchette details in China''s New Red Guards, contemporary China is undergoing a revival of an unapologetic embrace of extreme authoritarianism that draws direct inspiration from the Mao era. Under current Chinese leader Xi Jinping, state control over the economy is increasing, civil society is under sustained attack, and the CCP is expanding its reach in unprecedented new ways. As Xi declared in late 2017, "Government, military, society and schools, north, south, east and west-the party is the leader of all." But this trend is reinforced by a bottom-up revolt against Western ideas of modernity, including political pluralism, the rule of law, and the free market economy. Centered around a cast of nationalist intellectuals and activists who have helped unleash a wave of populist enthusiasm for the Great Helmsman''s policies, China''s New Red Guards not only will reshape our understanding of the political forces driving contemporary China, it will also demonstrate how ideologies can survive and prosper despite pervasive rumors of their demise.

DKK 209.00
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Shinran's Kyogyoshinsho - Sengaku Mayeda - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Shinran's Kyogyoshinsho - Sengaku Mayeda - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

This annotated translation by Daisetz Suzuki (1870-1966) comprises the first four of six chapters of the Kyogyoshinsho, the definitive doctrinal work of Shinran (1173-1262). Shinran founded the Jodo Shin sect of Pure Land Buddhism, now the largest religious organization in Japan. Writing in Classical Chinese, Shinran began this, his magnum opus, while in exile and spent the better part of thirty years after his return to Kyoto revising the text. Although unfinished, Suzuki''s translation conveys the text''s core religious message, showing how Shinran offered a new understanding of faith through studying teachings before engaging in praxis, rather than the more common and far more limited view of faith in Buddhism as relevant to one just beginning their pursuit of Buddhist truth. Although Suzuki is best known for his scholarship on Zen Buddhism, he took a lifelong interest in Pure Land Buddhism. Suzuki''s own religious perspective is evident in his translation of gyo as ''''True Living'''' rather than the expected ''''Practice,'''' and of sho as ''''True Realizing of the Pure Land'''' rather than the expected ''''Enlightenment'''' or ''''Confirmation.'''' This book contains the second edition of Suzuki''s translation. It includes a number of corrections to the original 1973 edition, long out of print, as well as Suzuki''s unfinished preface in its original form for the first time.

DKK 896.00
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Holy Things - Nathan Mcgovern - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Holy Things - Nathan Mcgovern - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Scholars of religion have mostly abandoned the concept of "syncretism" in which certain apparent deviations from "standard" practice are believed to be the result of a mixture of religions. This is particularly relevant to Thailand, in which ordinary religious practice was seen by an earlier generation of scholars as a mixture of three religions: local spirit religion, Hinduism, and Buddhism. In part, the perception that Thai Buddhism is syncretistic is due to a misunderstanding of traditional Buddhism, which has always accepted the existence of local spirits and gods. Nevertheless, there are aspects of Thai Buddhist practice that still stubbornly appear syncretistic. Moreover, Thai Buddhists themselves are increasingly adopting the language of syncretism, referring to traditional Thai religion as a mixture of local, Hindu, and Buddhist practices. This raises the question: If syncretism is so wrong, then why does it seem so right?In Holy Things, Nathan McGovern answers this question through an in-depth study of the worship of spirits, gods, and Buddha images--all known as sing saksit, or "holy things"--in Thailand. He takes the reader on a historical and genealogical journey, showing how the category saksit began as a term to describe a power that is inherent to gods and spirits and accessible to Brahmans. Only later, when it was used in the nineteenth century to translate the Western concept of the "holy" did it become associated with Buddhist practice. McGovern shows that what appears to be syncretism is actually an illusion. The worship of "holy things" is not a mixture of different religions, but the category of "holy things" is a mixture of different ways of talking about religion.

DKK 838.00
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Guardians of the Revolution - Ray Takeyh - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Guardians of the Revolution - Ray Takeyh - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

For over a quarter century, Iran has been one of America''s chief nemeses. Ever since Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah in 1979, the relationship between the two nations has been antagonistic: revolutionary guards chanting against the Great Satan, Bush fulminating against the Axis of Evil, Iranian support for Hezbollah, and President Ahmadinejad blaming the U.S. for the world''s ills. The unending war of words suggests an intractable divide between Iran and the West, one that may very well lead to a shooting war in the near future. But as Ray Takeyh shows in this accessible and authoritative history of Iran''s relations with the world since the revolution, behind the famous personalities and extremist slogans is a nation that is far more pragmatic--and complex--than many in the West have been led to believe. Takeyh explodes many of our simplistic myths of Iran as an intransigently Islamist foe of the West. Tracing the course of Iranian policy since the 1979 revolution, Takeyh identifies four distinct periods: the revolutionary era of the 1980s, the tempered gradualism following the death of Khomeini and the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1989, the "reformist" period from 1997-2005 under President Khatami, and the shift toward confrontation and radicalism since the election of President Ahmadinejad in 2005. Takeyh shows that three powerful forces--Islamism, pragmatism, and great power pretensions--have competed in each of these periods, and that Iran''s often paradoxical policies are in reality a series of compromises between the hardliners and the moderates, often with wild oscillations between pragmatism and ideological dogmatism. The U.S.''s task, Takeyh argues, is to find strategies that address Iran''s objectionable behavior without demonizing this key player in an increasingly vital and volatile region. With its clear-sighted grasp of both nuance and historical sweep, Guardians of the Revolution will stand as the standard work on this controversial--and central--actor in world politics for years to come.

DKK 201.00
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Guardians of the Revolution - Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs - Bog af Ray (Senior Fellow Takeyh - Paperback

Guardians of the Revolution - Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs - Bog af Ray (Senior Fellow Takeyh - Paperback

Revolutionary guards chanting against the Great Satan, Bush fulminating against the Axis of Evil, Iranian support for Hezbollah, and President Ahmadinejad blaming the U.S. for the world's ills-the unending war of words suggests an intractable divide between Iran and the West. But as Ray Takeyh shows in this accessible and authoritative history of Iran's relations with the world since the revolution, behind the famous personalities and extremist slogans is a nationthat is far more pragmatic-and complex-than..

DKK 190.95
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