Author : Thomas West
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527581551
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Book Synopsis Parallel Religious Revolutions in Britain in 1688 and Egypt in 2013 by : Thomas West
Download or read book Parallel Religious Revolutions in Britain in 1688 and Egypt in 2013 written by Thomas West and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutionary periods, like Britain underwent in 1642-1688 and Egypt experienced in 2011-2013, are characterized by idealistic goals. So when and why did the idealistic goals of religious toleration and constitutional democracy in Britain and Egypt, as introduced by their respective post-revolutionary rulers James II and Mohamed Morsi, lead to counter-revolutions? Why did religion not stabilize regimes, (unlike Marx’s palliative or Alianak’s stabilization in times of crisis), but instead led to revolutions and counter-revolutions? This book explores these questions and provides an explanation by introducing a theoretical construct of the presence of sectarian strains in both countries that magnified the unwitting perceived “basic blunders” of these new and inexperienced rulers and hence led to counter-revolutions albeit with different end-results: a constitutional monarchy in Britain with the re-establishment of a “secure” Church of England and a return to a perceived non-sectarian military rule, an illiberal democracy, in Egypt.