Abstract
The pairing of the words Christian and Anarchism may seem an unlikely, if not impossible, marriage of ideas. Is not Christianity the defender of order and tradition? Do not God and Country fit together as appropriately as Mom and Apple Pie? What could anarchism, with its bombs and chaos, have to do with steeples and stained-glass windows?
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Taylor, J., Israelson, C. (2015). Christian Anarchism. In: The Political World of Bob Dylan. Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137477477_5
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