Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union by Wolfram Kaiser

By Wolfram Kaiser

Significant examine of the function of eu Christian democratic events within the making of the ecu Union. It greatly re-conceptualises eu integration in long term ancient viewpoint because the consequence of partisan festival of political ideologies and events and their guiding principles for the way forward for Europe. Wolfram Kaiser takes a comparative method of political Catholicism within the 19th century, Catholic events in interwar Europe and Christian democratic events in postwar Europe and stories those events' cross-border contacts and co-ordination of policy-making. He exhibits how good networked occasion elites ensured that the origins of ecu Union have been predominately Christian democratic, with massive repercussions for the present-day european. The elites succeeded by way of intensifying their cross-border verbal exchange and coordinating their political strategies and coverage making in executive. it is a significant contribution to the recent transnational historical past of Europe and the historical past of eu integration.

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God and Race in American Politics: A Short History by Mark A. Noll

By Mark A. Noll

Religion has been a robust political strength all through American historical past. while race enters the combo the consequences were a few of our best triumphs as a nation--and a few of our such a lot shameful disasters. during this vital e-book, Mark Noll, the most influential historians of yankee faith writing this present day, strains the explosive political results of the non secular intermingling with race.

Noll demonstrates how supporters and rivals of slavery and segregation drew both at the Bible to justify the morality in their positions. He exhibits how a typical evangelical background supported Jim Crow discrimination and contributed powerfully to the black theology of liberation preached through Martin Luther King Jr. In probing such connections, Noll takes readers from the 1830 slave rebellion of Nat Turner via Reconstruction and the lengthy Jim Crow period, from the civil rights circulation of the Fifties and Sixties to "values" vote casting in contemporary presidential elections. He argues that the best changes in American political historical past, from the Civil warfare during the civil rights revolution and past, represent an interconnected narrative within which opposing appeals to Biblical fact gave upward thrust to often-contradictory spiritual and ethical complexities. And he exhibits how this history continues to be alive this present day in controversies surrounding stem-cell examine and abortion in addition to civil rights reform.

God and Race in American Politics is a wide ranging background that unearths the profound function of faith in American political background and in American discourse on race and social justice.

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Limits of the Secular: Social Experience and Cultural Memory by Kaustuv Roy

By Kaustuv Roy

This publication allows a lacking discussion among the secular and the transsecular dimensions of human lifestyles. It explores sorts of limits of the secular: the inadequacies of its assumptions with admire to the full being of the human, and the way it curbs the ontological sensibilities of the human. Kaustuv Roy argues that considering that secular cause of modernity can basically characterize the empirical size of lifestyles, people are pressured to denationalise the non-empirical size of being. it really is consequently absent from the social, imaginary, in addition to public discourse. This one-sidedness is the basis reason behind a few of the ills dealing with modernity. Roy contends bridge-consciousness that praxeologically relates the secular and the non-secular domain names of expertise is the necessity of the hour.

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Religion, Politics and Nation-Building in Post-Communist by Greg Simons, David Westerlund

By Greg Simons, David Westerlund

The expanding value and visibility of relationships among faith and public arenas and associations following the autumn of communism in Europe give you the center concentration of this interesting ebook. best foreign students reflect on the non secular and political position of Christian Orthodoxy within the Russian Federation, Romania, Georgia and Ukraine along the revival of previous, indigenous religions, sometimes called 'shamanistic' and examine how, regardless of Islama (TM)s lengthy heritage and plenty of adherents within the south, Islamophobic attitudes have more and more been further to standard anti-Semitic, anti-Western or anti-liberal components of Russian nationalism. Contrasts among the churcha (TM)s place within the post-communist state development strategy of secular Estonia with its function in predominantly Catholic Poland also are explored. faith, Politics and Nation-Building in Post-Communist international locations offers a extensive evaluation of the political significance of faith within the Post-Soviet house yet its curiosity and relevance extends some distance past the geographical concentration, offering examples of the demanding situations within the spheres of public, non secular and social coverage for all transitional nations.

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Buddhism and the Political Process by Hiroko Kawanami

By Hiroko Kawanami

In its interpretation of Buddhism either as a cultural background and social ideology, this edited quantity seeks to appreciate how Buddhist values and international perspectives have impacted at the political strategy of many nations in Asia. of their respective paintings in Myanmar, Thailand, Sri Lanka, China, Japan and Tibet, the individuals interact with an interactive typology initially proposed by means of the past due Ian Harris, to whom the booklet is devoted. Adopting an interdisciplinary technique, they discover the interplay among Buddhism and politics, spiritual authority and political energy, contemplating concerns that situation the politicization of priests, proliferation of violence, management, citizenship, democracy and communalism as a way to additional comprehend the interface among Buddhism and politics in smooth and modern occasions.

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Negotiating the Sacred II: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in the by Elizabeth Burns Coleman, Maria Suzette Fernandes-Dias

By Elizabeth Burns Coleman, Maria Suzette Fernandes-Dias

Blasphemy and different kinds of blatant disrespect to non secular ideals manage to create major civil or even overseas unrest. for that reason, the sacrosanctity of non secular dogmas and ideology, stringent legislation of repression and codes of ethical and moral propriety have pressured artists to reside and create with occupational dangers like doubtful viewers reaction, self-censorship and accusations of planned misinterpretation of cultural creation looming over their heads. but, lately, matters surrounding the rights of minority cultures to attractiveness and recognize have raised new questions about the contemporariness of the build of blasphemy and sacrilege. Controversies over the classy illustration of the sacred, the exhibition of the sacred as artwork, and the general public reveal of sacrilegious or blasphemous works have given upward push to heated debates and feature invited us to mirror on binaries like inventive and non secular sensibilities, tolerance and philistinism, the sacred and the profane, deification and vilification. Endeavouring to maneuver past ‘simplistic’ issues in regards to the rights to freedom of expression and sacrosanctity, this assortment explores how modifications among conceptions of the sacred may be negotiated. It recognises that blasphemy could be justified as a sort of political feedback, in addition to a honest expression of spirituality. however it additionally recognises that inside of a pluralistic society, blasphemy within the arts can do a major quantity of injury, because it can also impair kin inside and among societies. This assortment advanced out a two-day convention known as ‘Negotiating the Sacred: Blasphemy and Sacrilege within the Arts’ held on the Centre for move Cultural study on the Australian nationwide college in November 2005. this is often the second one quantity in a sequence of 5 meetings and edited collections at the topic ‘Negotiating the Sacred’. the 1st convention, ‘Negotiating the Sacred: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society’ was once held on the Australian nationwide University’s Centre for Cross-Cultural learn in 2004, and released as an edited assortment through ANU E Press in 2006. different meetings within the sequence have integrated faith, drugs and the physique (ANU, 2006), Tolerance, schooling and the Curriculum (ANU, 2007), and Governing the relatives (Monash college, 2008). jointly, the sequence represents an enormous contribution to ongoing debates at the political calls for bobbing up from non secular pluralism in multicultural societies.

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Religion in the Oval Office: The Religious Lives of American by Gary Scott Smith

By Gary Scott Smith

In his hugely praised e-book Faith and the Presidency, Gary Scott Smith forged a revealing gentle at the position faith has performed in presidential politics all through our nation's historical past, providing finished, even-handed examinations of the position of faith within the lives, politics, and regulations of 11 presidents.

Now, in Religion within the Oval Office, Smith takes on 11 extra of our nation's finest and influential leader executives: John Adams, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William McKinley, Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, George H. W. Bush, invoice Clinton, and Barack Obama. Drawing on a variety of assets and paying shut recognition to ancient context and America's transferring social and ethical values, he examines their spiritual ideals, commitments, affiliations, and practices and scrutinizes their relationships with non secular leaders and groups. the result's a desirable account of the ways that faith has assisted in shaping the process our background. From John Quincy Adams' remedy of local americans, to Harry Truman's selection to acknowledge Israel, to invoice Clinton's merchandising of spiritual liberty and welfare reform, to Barack Obama's rules on poverty and homosexual rights, Smith indicates how strongly our presidents' spiritual commitments have affected coverage from the earliest days of our country to the current.

Together with Faith and the Presidency, Religion within the Oval Office offers the main accomplished exam of the inseparable and interesting courting among religion and the yankee presidency. This publication may be helpful to an individual attracted to the presidency and the position of faith in politics.

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One King, One Faith: The Parlement of Paris and the by Nancy Lyman Roelker

By Nancy Lyman Roelker

This e-book, the fruits of a lifelong profession in French historical past, tackles head-on the significant query of the French non secular Wars: Why did France turn out so continually opposed and immune to Protestantism? distinct pupil Nancy Lyman Roelker claims that what finally stimulated the eagerness and violence of the civil wars was once faith. She demonstrates that not just the physique politic but additionally the physique social was once outlined via Gallican Catholicism. Roelker underscores the function the Parlement performed in shaping and safeguarding the social, in addition to the political, order. Her learn relies on broad study within the correspondence, memoirs, and tracts of mainstream Catholic magistrates in addition to dissenters. It creates an outline of the mentalits of the Parlement, analyzes spiritual attitudes towards significant occasions of the interval, and examines the Parlement's function within the triumph of Henri IV. alongside the means, it sheds gentle at the internal workings of the Parlement and different political associations, on social constructions, and on collective principles. And above all, this distinct paintings brilliantly illuminates the position of faith in society and the nation. will probably be the definitive paintings at the topic for a few years to return.

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Education, politics and religion: reconciling the civil and by James Arthur, Liam Gearon, Alan Sears

By James Arthur, Liam Gearon, Alan Sears

@contents: creation an issue for attraction part I: academic, Political and Theological idea 1. Christianity, Citizenship and identification 2. Republican thought, Citizenship and faith part II: demanding situations of historic and Philosophical Interpretation three. Christianity, Citizenship and schooling: From Antiquity to Enlightenment and its Aftermath four. faith, schooling and Extremism: From Totalitarian Democracy to Liberal Autocracy part III: Pragmatic and Pedagogical methods five. non secular religion, Citizenship schooling and the general public sq. 6. Citizenship schooling as Transformation: the probabilities of non secular ways to schooling Biblography

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