The Taiping analogy shows, for Jiang, that a strange new religion can become revolutionary power when it fuses religious devotion with the promise of a new world.
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Revolutionary Zeal
The Taiping analogy shows, for Jiang, that a strange new religion can become revolutionary power when it fuses religious devotion with the promise of a new world.
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He says the Muslim movement succeeded because it fused revolutionary zeal against the social order with religious devotion that God was with them.
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"three i'll just look at three okay the first is from 1850 to 1864 in china there's something called the taiping rebellion i'm not..."
"...both the idea of religious devotion god is with us and revolutionary zeal we are making a new world and when soldiers are infused..."
"...in battle because God is with you. Okay? So this combines revolutionary zeal overturning the social order with religious devotion. God is with us...."
"...of the Byzantine Empire. That's the power of religious devotion and revolutionary zeal. So that's how they were able to do it. Now the..."
"...they they lost the battle why because again when peasants have revolutionary zeal and which devotion they're not afraid to die and so hand..."
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