[Rezension von: Graziano, Michael, Errand into the wilderness of mirrors]
This creative study of the CIA’s "religious approach" to fighting the Cold War joins a growing body of scholarship examining the intersection of religion and foreign affairs. In seven tightly argued chapters, Michael Graziano charts the development of a "world religions paradigm"...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2023
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2023, Volume: 65, Issue: 1, Pages: 163-165 |
| Review of: | Errand into the wilderness of mirrors (Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021) (Dowland, Seth)
Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2021) (Dowland, Seth) Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2021) (Dowland, Seth) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
/ USA, Central Intelligence Agency
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBQ North America SA Church law; state-church law |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | This creative study of the CIA’s "religious approach" to fighting the Cold War joins a growing body of scholarship examining the intersection of religion and foreign affairs. In seven tightly argued chapters, Michael Graziano charts the development of a "world religions paradigm" in both the academy and the United States’ intelligence services from WWII through Vietnam. This paradigm led CIA officers, State Department officials, and US presidents to view "religion" as an ally in the Cold War, even as it obscured the nuances and contexts that shaped the religious worlds of people around the globe. The Iranian revolution shattered the religious models that intelligence operatives had spent three-plus decades constructing. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csac094 |