Winning Revolutions

The product of 35 senior scholars' research, these volumes examine the psychology driving the religious, political, and economic forces that cause turbulence and violence in human society. Religious, political, and economic revolts have defined the human experience throughout history. These kinds of universal turbulence continue to be the dominate source of human suffering and perplexity during the first decade of the 21st century. What can intensive study of the psychodynamics of cultural and social eruptions tell us that may serve to move cultures around the world beyond ongoing strife? This work seeks to find out, examining the spectrum of cultural and social eruptions from ancient Jewish, Christian, and Muslim revolutions to the modern day economic and political turbulence in Eastern Europe, the Near East, and Latin America. The breadth of this three-volume set ranges from the 12th century BCE to the current struggles in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria; and from the irrational violence of the French Revolution to the genuine quest for liberty of the American Revolution and the Singing Revolutions in the Baltic States in recent decades. Each volume is introduced with a description of its philosophical perspective and concludes with a brief summarization of the takeaways of the research presented.

J. Harold Ellens, PhD, is a retired professor of psychology and philosophy, a retired Presbyterian theologian and pastor, and a psychotherapist in private practice. He is the author of 230 published volumes on the interface of psychology and religio-cultural issues.

Series Editor's Foreword
Introduction by J. Harold Ellens
Chapter 1 Life-Changing Political Revolutions in Ancient Times: One Archaeological Story
John T. Greene
Chapter 2 The Instruments of Economic Revolution and Suppression in Ancient Times: Neo-Assyrian Military Logistics, Organization, Tactics, and the Military Artifacts of Iron IIB Tzer (et-Tel)
John T. Greene
Chapter 3 Tolstoy against the Canon: Intersections of the Economic, Theological, Ethical, and Aesthetic in What Is Art?
Ivan S. Eubanks
Chapter 4 Heuristic Possibilities from Foucault's Ideas on the Future of Revolution
Suzanne M. Coyle
Chapter 5 From the Kaiser to the Weimar Republic, Hindenburg, and Hitler: The Economic Forces at Play
J. Harold Ellens
Chapter 6 The Economic Revolution of Latin America: From Bolivar to Modern Brazil
Patricia Nobre da Silva and J. Harold Ellens
Chapter 7 The Qur'anic Revolution in the Condemnation of Usury
James R. Campbell
Chapter 8 The Economics of East African Conflict
Kathryn Gordon
Chapter 9 Was Marx Right about Economics and Revolution?
Kathryn Gordon
Chapter 10 Origins of the Saucepan Revolution
Karl Wittbold
Chapter 11 The Right to Revolution in International Law
Saul Takahashi
Chapter 12 Just War Theory: The Obscenity of War and the Imperative of the Lesser Evil
J. Harold Ellens
Conclusion by J. Harold Ellens
Index
About the Series Editor and Advisors
About the Editor and Contributors