![Book Preview – The Modern Spirit of Asia, by Peter van der Veer](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Modern-Spirit-of-Asia.gif)
This is a book about India and China. It is about the ways in which these nation-forms, and the nationalist understandings of religion that have thereby developed, have been transformed by Western imperial modernity.
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![Speech and Silence: The Politics of Genesis 1–2:4](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/665px-Wenceslas_Hollar_-_Chaos_State_1-600x600.jpg)
August 28th 2013, reminded us of the power of the spoken word as the world commemorated the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech. What was celebrated was the moral power of words to transform history – this despite the risk and tragedy of empty rhetoric which has inundated it.
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