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See John Howard Yoder, Christian Attitudes to War, Peace, and Revolution (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2009); Roland Bainton, Christian Attitudes toward War and Peace: A Historical Survey and Critical Re-Evaluation (New York: Abingdon Press, 1960). 17. See Robert W. Crapps, An Introduction to the Psychology of Religion (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1986), 10–14. 18. See Jonathan Fox, A World Survey of Religion and the State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 12–31. 19. For an analysis of the role of religion when it is placed at the service of the state, see Gerhard Besier, Religion, State and Society in the Transformations of the Twentieth Century: Modernization, Innovation and Decline (Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2008).
Poststructural Awareness Of the three predicates that we propose, poststructural awareness stands as the necessary point of departure and therefore the first in the sequence of methodological predicates. indd 35 12/13/2010 6:00:33 PM 36 R U WA N P A L A P A T H WA L A A N D A N D R E W W I C K I N G symptoms which have given rise to the postmodern condition and the epistemological break previously explained. Such poststructural awareness carries within itself the incentive and resources necessary to transgress the boundaries of the prevailing or the dominant paradigm.
46 It is in this process of transmitting the vision of the ideal community that the ethics, the morals, and the values of a religion are stitched into the tapestry of a culture; in which a human being works out his or her place on earth and his or her salvation in this world and in the hereafter. 49 It could be said then that the soteriology of a religion is the soul of a community through which its place on earth is determined. 51 This “depth dimension,” as George Newlands notes, manifests in a diversity of soteriological expression; there has never been an “authorized” version of soteriology.