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"Explores the main ideas of Pennsylvania-born religious leader Frank Buchman (1878-1961), his work in the movement known as the Oxford Group and Moral Re-Armament, and his enduring legacy in the areas of peace-building and interfaith understanding"--Provided by publisher.

Holy Spirit. --- Social change --- Religious awakening. --- Religion and politics. --- Moral re-armament. --- Religious aspects. --- Buchman, Frank, --- Moral Re-armament (Organization)

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Christian communities --- Church renewal. --- Church renewal --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Christianity --- Church --- Church reform --- Reform of the church --- Renewal of the church --- Religious awakening --- Renewal --- Reform

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This book is the first analysis of the Sudanese Mahdiyya from a socio-political perspective that treats how relationships of authority were enunciated through symbol and ceremony. The book focuses on how the Mahdi and his second-in-command and ultimate successor, the Khalifa Abdallahi, used symbols, ceremony and ritual to articulate their power, authority and legitimacy first within the context of resistance to the imperial Turco-Egyptian forces that had been occupying the Nilotic Sudan since 1821, and then within the context of establishing an Islamic state. This study examines five key elements from a historical perspective: the importance of Islamic mysticism as manifested in Sufi brotherhoods in the articulation of power in the Sudan; ceremony as handmaids of power and legitimacy; charismatic leadership; the routinization of charisma and the formation of a religious state purportedly based upon the first Islamic community in the seventh century C.E.

Islam and politics --- Islamic renewal --- Islam --- Islamic reform --- Islamic revivalism --- Islamic revivalist movement --- Ṣaḥwah (Islam) --- Religious awakening --- Wahhābīyah --- Reform --- Renewal --- Sudan --- History

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Church renewal --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Christianity --- Church --- Church reform --- Reform of the church --- Renewal of the church --- Religious awakening --- History --- Renewal --- Reform

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The articles in this volume build up ethnographic analysis complementary to the historiography of South Asian Islam, which has explored the emergence of reformism in the context of specific political and religious circumstances of nineteenth-century British India. Taking up diverse popular and scholarly debates as well as everyday religious practices, this volume also breaks away from the dominant trend of mainstream ethnographic work, which celebrates Sufi-inspired forms of Islam as tolerant, plural, authentic and so on, pitted against a 'reformist' Islam. Urging a more nuanced examination of all forms of reformism and their reception in practice, the contributions here powerfully demonstrate the historical and geographical specificities of reform projects. In doing so, they challenge prevailing perspectives in which substantially different traditions of reform are lumped together into one reified category (often carelessly shorthanded as 'wah'habism') and branded as extremist - if not altogether demonised as terrorist.

Islam --- Islamic renewal --- Islamic reform --- Islamic revivalism --- Islamic revivalist movement --- Ṣaḥwah (Islam) --- Religious awakening --- Wahhābīyah --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- History. --- Reform --- Renewal