The deepening darkness

loss, patriarchy, and democracy's future

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Pages
339

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The deepening darkness: loss, patriarchy, and democracy's future
2009, Cambridge University Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction and overview
Roman patriarchy : entering the darkness
Why Rome? why now?
Roman patriarchy and violence
Vergil on the darkness visible
Apuleius on conversion
Augustine on conversion
Resistance across time and culture
Resistance : religion
The historical Jesus
The Jews and Christian anti-semitism
The argument for toleration
Christian resistance : Bayle and Locke
Jewish resistance : Spinoza
Ethical religion and constitutional rights
Radical abolitionism
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Religion and the values of constitutional democracy
The legacy of celibacy
The priest abuse scandal
James Carroll on resistance to war and anti-semitism
Resistance : psychology
Freud's opening and closing to women
The alternative psychology of Ian D. Suttie
The lens of gender
Resistance : the artists
Why art?
Hemingway's a farewell to arms
Joyce's Ulysses
Wharton's Age of innocence
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, to the lighthouse, and three guineas
D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's lover
Resistance : politics
Between patriarchy and democracy : contradictions in American constitutionalism
The psychological roots of fascism and the rebirth of democratic constitutionalism
Irrational prejudice : anti-semitism as the model for racism, sexism, and homophobia
The resistance movements of the 1960s and later
Resistance to fundamentalism in American constitutional law
Democracy's future
The contemporary scene
Impact of western colonialism in Asia and the Middle East : the war on terror
Sexual voice and the interpretation of the 1960s.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
320.801/9
Library of Congress
JA74.5 .G55 2009, JA74.5.G55 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
339

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Open Library
OL16865009M
Internet Archive
deepeningdarknes00gill
ISBN 13
9780521898980
LCCN
2008019566
OCLC/WorldCat
228427190
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5701098

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