Essays in Anarchism and Religion: Volume III (Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion)

Contents Acknowledgements ix Anarchism, Religion, and the Religiousness of Political Ideologies Alexandre Christoyannopoulos & Matthew S. Adams Abraham Heyn’s Jewish Anarcho-Pacifism Hayyim Rothman 21 Tolstoy’s Christian Anarcho-Pacifism: An Exposition Alexandre Christoyannopoulos 71 Community, Communion, and Communism: Religion and Spirituality in Herbert Read’s Anarchism 119 Matthew S. Adams Revolution as Redemption: Daniel Guérin, Religion and Spirituality 151 David Berry Martin Buber’s Notion of Grace as a Defense of Religious Anarchism 189 Sarah Scott Contra Externalisation: Analogies between Anarchism and Mysticism 223 Stefan Rossbach From Benign Anarchy to Divine Anarchy: A Critical Review of “Spiritual Anarchism” 255 Anthony Fiscella Contributors Index 329 Anarchism and religion have historically had an uneasy relationship. Indeed, representatives of both sides have regularly insisted on the fundamental incompatibility of anarchist and religious ideas and practices. Yet, ever since the emergence of anarchism as an intellectual and political movement, a considerable number of religious anarchists have insisted that their religious tradition necessarily implies an anarchist political stance. Reflecting both a rise of interest in anarchist ideas and activism on the one hand, and the revival of religious ideas and movements in the political sphere on the other, this multi-volume collection examines congruities and contestations between the two from a diverse range of academic perspectives. The third volume of Essays in Anarchism & Religion includes five essays focusing on particular individuals (Abraham Heyn, Leo Tolstoy, Herbert Read, Daniel Guérin and Martin Buber), one essay on the affinities between mysticism and anarchism, and one surveying the vast territory of ‘spiritual anarchism’. In a world where political ideas increasingly matter once more, and religion is an increasingly visible aspect of global political life, these essays offer scholarly analysis of overlooked activists, ideas and movements, and as such reveal the possibility of a powerful critique of contemporary global society. (Source: [Stockholm University Press](https://www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/site/books/e/10.16993/bbb/))