Angelic Troublemakers: Religion and Anarchism in America (Contemporary Anarchist Studies) by A. Terrance Wiley - 2014

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Wiley explores the religious ethics, political philosophies, and social activism of Henry David Thoreau, Dorothy Day, and Bayard Rustin within an anarchist conceptual scheme that promises to elucidate the implications of particular varieties of religious radicalism for the modern territorial state and people's normative relation to it. His goal is to shed light on a highly influential strand of religious ethics and radical activist practice in the modern period, as well as on a variety of anarchism that does not conform to the negative stereotypes of the position. The study began as his doctoral dissertation at Princeton University. (2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)