F. G. Bailey 
God-botherers and Other True-believers [PDF ebook] 
Gandhi, Hitler, and the Religious Right

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I: FAITH AND POLITICS

Chapter 1. Faith, Reason and Consequences

• Three kinds of faith


• Only believe!


• Humanism


• Oneness


• A Point of View

Chapter 2. Religion and Persuasion in Politics

• Religion and Political Involvement


• The Problem of Order


• What should go on and what does go on


• Defining Situations


• Information Costs: Political Clairvoyance


• Creating Trust


• Persuading Reality-testing

PART II ANTAGONISTIC RELIGIONS

Chapter 3. Desert, Marketplace, and Forum

• The Religious Right (and Left) Hypocrisy


• Render therefore unto Caesar


• Modes of Clerical Involvement in Politics


• Antagonism


• Paraclerics: Repenting Religion as a Weapon: Mrs. Schiavo


• The Religious Mode of Political Persuasion

Chapter 4. The Need for Enemies

• Pol Pot and Secular Religion


• “Ardent and Even Hysterical Passions”


• Manufacturing Enemies


• Group Sentiment and Violence


• Hitler’s Faith


• Fascism and Christian Fascism

PART III: A RELIGION OF LOVE

Chapter 5. Gandhi: The Freedom Fight

• The Freedom-Fight


• Peacemaking Failures

Chapter 6. Gandhi’s Charisma

• Calculation Charisma: the Mass Audience


• Charisma: Elite and Entourage


• Single-Mindedness

Chapter 7. Gandhi’s Religion and Political Reality

• Gandhi and Hitler


• Faith and Responsibility


• Secular Disciplines in the Freedom Fight


• Gandhian Morality and “Sectarian” religions


• Gandhi’s Universalism and Political Action

Chapter 8. The First Cause and the Last Word

• Propagating the Faith


• Walk Gently


• Morality and Evolution


• Oneness and its consequences: diseducation


• Oneness and its consequences: strife ~


• Diseducation and Authority


• Only Think!

References
Index

F. G. Bailey is an emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, where he taught from 1972-1994. He was formerly the founding professor of anthropology at the University of Sussex, UK and has published fifteen books (two of them edited volumes).