Love, Power, Sacrifice: Life With the Jesus Army - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1904587488 ISBN 13 : 9781904587484

Editeur : Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

Un aperçu fascinant du monde des sectes religieuses. - un portrait de l'armée de Jésus

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Photographed over twenty years, this is a portrait of the Jesus Army. For most of us, if we register them at all, they are the tambourine-wielding, gospel-singing fanatics who intrude on our Saturday morning shopping excursions. But for the members themselves, this charismatic Christian sect often dismissed as a cult is a total way of life. Founded in 1969 in Northamptonshire, England, believers are expected to renounce all their possessions, live in communes, and share all earnings. Their motto, and three basic tenets Love, Power and Sacrifice form the title of this book. It would be easy to ridicule belief, but instead photographer John Angerson has adopted another approach a profoundly sympathetic authorial style which does not judge, or even simply chronicle, but seems to penetrate the very skin of a religious sect. What gives these photographs an eerie relevance today is that fanatical religious belief has, seemingly out of the blue, come to the foreground of contemporary life. From the Christian fundamentalist certainties that have underpinned recent American policy, to the Islamic extremism that has erupted everywhere from New York to London and Madrid, competing religious beliefs have redrawn the contours of the modern world. Angerson s photographs provide a searing insight in a world within a world. By peering into this microcosm of fanatical religion we can begin to understand a phenomenon that it is no longer possible to ignore.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Love, Power, Sacrifice ist der Wahlspruch der radikalen christlichen Sekte The Jesus Army, gegründet 1969 in Northamptonshire/England. Die Mitglieder geben ihre Berufe auf, leben in Gemeinschaften und teilen ihre Einkünfte. Religiöser Fanatismus ist ein weltweites und vielgestaltiges Phänomen: von den die jetzige amerikanische Regierungspolitik bestimmenden religiösen Evangelikalen bis zum islamischen Extremismus. Die in über 20 Jahren entstandenen Fotos zeigen die Innenwelt einer radikalen Sekte ohne sich zu distanzieren oder zu verurteilen. Hier können wir vielleicht verstehen, was unser Jahrhundert zu dominieren scheint.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dewi Lewis Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1904587488
• ISBN 13: 9781904587484
• Reliure: Relié
• Illustrateur: Angerson John
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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