Is It Conservative?

Question 1

Examples of religion instigating change.

Answer 1

• Iranian revolution
• Civil rights movement
• Latin American Catholic Church, liberation theology
• Calvanism, Martin Luther
• Kentucky Workers, eg: Dwight Billings studying Gramsci’s theory applied.

Question 2

Examples of religion halting change

Answer 2

• The church in Russia
• The New right, banning books in Florida related to conversations about gender and sexuality.
• Catholic Church in Mussilini’s fascist regime

Question 3

Martin Luther is

Answer 3

A German monk known for beginning what became protestantism in opposition to the perceived over overendulgence of the Catholic Church.

Question 4

Gramsci proposes that religion

Answer 4

Can actually promote class consciousness and be integral to change.
Gramsci was concerned with how the ruling class use ideological hegemony to prevent change.

Question 5

Ernst Bloch

Answer 5

Said religion had a dual character, it could be a channel to express hope and change with its authority.

Question 6

Ernst Bloch expanded on Gramsci’s early neomarxist perspective with the principle that religion provides ….

Answer 6

Hope, images of utopia and notions of brotherhood lend themselves positively to change in society.
*liberation theology in Latin America is an example of this.

Question 7

When considering the topic of the church being an instiagor of social change we must realise that _________ often plays a part in whether it unifies people.

Answer 7

Imperialism

Question 8

Connections between church lead revolutions and struggles to create fundamental transformation against imperialism has a word.

Answer 8

Millenarian movements, derived from Christian theology

Question 9

Two examples of the Catholic church being revolutionary and conservative

Answer 9

. Latin American Catholic church resisting the imperialist powers backing military dictatorship.

. The Catholic church sides with the Fascist forces who claim to restore conservative values, hierarchy, as well as quell the Communist agitation in Italy.

Question 10

It wasn’t Gramsci who said religion had a dual character, it was…

Answer 10

Ernst Bloch

Question 11

Pope John Paul II believed what about liberation theology?

Answer 11

It was bad.
It resembled Marxism.