Religion and politics Books
Brill U Schoningh Protestant Legacies in Nordic Law: The Early
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£112.10
Brill U Schoningh Christian Environmental Ethics: Foundations and
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£97.85
Brill Schoningh In Praise of Mortality: Christianity and New
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£89.00
Brill I Schoeningh Eine Summe Politischer Religionspadagogik
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£122.55
Brill U Schoningh The Post-Secular City: The New Secularization
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£119.06
Brill U Schoningh Die Politische Dimension Des
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£166.62
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Veröffentlichungen des Instituts fur Europäische
Book SynopsisThe contributions of this volume are written from a historical perspective and look at the specific form the relationship between church and state took in three different countries, with special attention being paid to their respective strengths and weaknesses.The separation of church and state is one of the most important advances of modern times. Yet Germany, France and the United States took very different routes to achieving this. The present situation is full of questions that were approached in the papers given at the 14th Dietrich Bonhoeffer Lecture Series 2010 in Mainz and were answered from various perspectives. How and for what reason did these very different models come to be? What are their respective strengths and weaknesses? More recently, these questions have again cropped up in the discussion surrounding the role of Islam in Western societies.
£69.52
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Ringen Um Versohnung: Versohnungsprozesse
Book SynopsisSeit der zweiten Halfte des 20. Jahrhunderts wird im politisch-gesellschaftlichen Kontext der eigentlich religios konnotierte Begriff "Versohnung" immer haufiger zur Beschreibung von Konfliktlosungsstrategien benutzt. Doch was bedeutet Versohnung bezogen auf Politik und Gesellschaft? Welche Faktoren sind relevant fur Versohnungsprozesse? Womit lassen sich Erfolge, aber auch Hindernisse und Ruckschlage auf dem Weg der Versohnung erklaren? In dem vorliegenden Band gehen internationale Forscherinnen und Forscher aus Geschichtswissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft, Soziologie und Theologie diesen Fragen nach. In ihren Beitragen wird Versohnung auf zwei Ebenen reflektiert. Auf der ersten Ebene handelt es sich um ubergreifende Analysen von Faktoren, die Versohnungsprozesse beeinflussen. Auf der zweiten Ebene werden bestimmte Aspekte von Versohnungsprozessen an einschlagigen Fallbeispielen aus dem Kontext des deutsch-franzosischen und russisch-finnischen Verhaltnisses, des ehemaligen Jugoslawiens, Sud- und Nordkorea, der DDR und Sudafrika veranschaulicht.Alle Beitrage machen deutlich, dass, obwohl unterschiedlichen Versohnungsprozessen bestimmte Elemente gemeinsam sind, Versohnung als ein sich dynamisch wandelnder, immer kontextgebundener Aushandlungsprozess erscheint, der multilateral von Akteuren aus Kirchen, Politik und Gesellschaft getragen wird.
£71.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Vom politischen Anreiz zur liberalen Überzeugung:
Book SynopsisWährend Religionsgemeinschaften häufig zugeschrieben wird, inhärent demokratieaffin oder demokratiefeindlich zu sein, stehen sie tatsächlich in einer komplexen wechselseitigen Beziehung zu ihrer Gesellschaft. Ob eine religiöse Gemeinschaft ein liberaldemokratisches politisches System bejaht, wird entscheidend von der Erfahrung religiöser Freiheit in diesem System abhängen. Religionspolitik kann hier ansetzen und durch die kooperative Einbindung der Religionsgemeinschaften Anreizstrukturen schaffen, innerhalb derer ein demokratie- und liberalismusfreundliches religiöses Ethos gefördert wird. Theologische Vorbehalte gegenüber dem demokratischen Staat können so durch positive praktische Erfahrungen mit Politik und Rechtsordnung überwunden werden. Am Beispiel der Kooperation von Staat und Kirchen in der westdeutschen Bildungs- und Verteidigungspolitik nach 1945 zeichnet Fabian Poetke eine erfolgreiche Integrationsentwicklung dieser Art nach.
£100.90
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Lutheran Theology and the Shaping of Society: The
Book SynopsisThe impact of Lutheranism upon society
£90.99
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Die europäische Integration und die Kirchen IV:
Book SynopsisDer Band versammelt die Beiträge eines Kolloquiums aus dem Jahr 2018, das am Ende der neunjährigen interdisziplinären Forschung des Graduiertenkollegs Die christlichen Kirchen vor der Herausforderung Europa stand. Die Beiträge widmen sich den Themenfeldern Europaverständnis der christlichen Kirchen, Europa im Zeichen von Versöhnung und Ökumene sowie Recht und Ethik vor der Herausforderung Europa und gewähren damit einen Einblick in die laufende Forschung über die Positionierung der christlichen Kirchen zur Frage Europa. An dem Band beteiligen sich Kirchenhistoriker, Theologen, Historiker und Politikwissenschaftler.Thomas Brechenmacher analysiert die Beziehungen zwischen dem Heiligen Stuhl und den europäischen Mächten in den 1920er und 1930er Jahren
£99.81
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Forschungen zur systematischen und ökumenischen
Book SynopsisContemporarily Theology and Political Sciences are on the way of reinventing Erik Peterson (1890-1960) as a central figure in the discourses of 1920s to 1950s. The volumes of his "Ausgewählte Schriften" give us insight into a thinking of high inner tensions, which was developed in an intellectual exchange with many important dialogue partners. First of all, Peterson's concept of the Political is of a high interest. Peterson formed this concept in a constant discussion with the famous and notorious jurist Carl Schmitt. In the early 30s their friendship an intellectual partnership broke because of their different statements to the totalized Political and the national socialist ideology. Peterson confronted the political Totalitarianism with an apocalyptical concept and image of the church as an independent public sphere, which has its main publicity through the worship in front of God's throne in the community of the earthly church and the heavenly assembly of angels. From this specific concept of publicity Peterson got an eminently critical power of judgement against political totalitarianism, which he viewed as the consequent self fulfilment of modernity. On his way Peterson converted from Lutheran Protestantism to Roman Catholicism in 1930. Until today his strongly liturgical and dogmatical shaped theology is a challenge for the search for a forthcoming ecumenical church.This volume is the first monograph about Peterson from a protestant perspective. Roger Mielke focuses on the concepts of the public and the political in Peterson's work - especially in relationship to Schmitt's project of a "Political Theology" and the intellectual exchange between Peterson and Schmitt. The author views the different contemporary discourses where the motives of Peterson's work are influential and has a special interest in the "Radical Orthodoxy"-discourse which is not yet received broadly in German speaking theology.
£100.11
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Das Spannungsfeld Zwischen Aufklarung Und
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£70.55
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Macht Glaube Politik?: Religion Und Politik in
Book SynopsisFor a long time religion and politics were considered separate entities just as much as church and state are separated in most countries. This book claims a return of religion into the political realm.
£30.60
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Secular And Sacred The Scandinavian Case Of
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£139.83
Brill Fink Religiöse Referenzen Ästhetischer Form: Zum
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£93.10
Matthias Grunewald Verlag Religion ALS Ressource Befreiender Entwicklung:
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£999.99
Matthias Grunewald Verlag Vielfaltige Heimat(en): Kommunikativ-Theologische
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£999.99
Matthias Grunewald Verlag Gegen Falsche Alternativen: Warum Dem
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£999.99
Matthias Grunewald Verlag Moving Home - Bewegte Heimat: Theologische
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£33.25
Matthias Grunewald Verlag Nicht Gleichgultig Bleiben!: Die Soziale
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£22.02
Schwabe Verlagsgruppe Transformationen ROMs in Der Vormoderne
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£999.99
Schwabe Verlagsgruppe Erasmus of Rotterdam: A Portrait
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£43.70
Jan Thorbecke Verlag Das Konstanzer Konzil: Kirchenpolitik
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£33.00
EOS - Editions Sankt Ottilien Religious Freedom, the Bed-Rock of National Unity
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£30.00
V&R unipress GmbH Bonner Rechtswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen. Neue
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£101.71
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Policies and Politics of Teaching Religion
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£34.50
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Religion and Democracy: Studies in Public
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£30.00
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Antisemitismus Seit 9/11: Ereignisse, Debatten,
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£77.25
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Religion and Neo-Nationalism in Europe
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£77.25
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Proactive Tolerance: The Key to Peace
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£54.40
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Does Religion Make a Difference?: Religious Ngos
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£51.00
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Religion, Medien Und Die Corona-Pandemie:
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£19.50
Gerlach Press The Silent Revolution
Book SynopsisHow immune is the Gulf region to the changes that have engulfed the Arab world since 2011? This volume responds to this question by examining the impact of the Arab Spring on Gulf regimes and societies and contributing to debates on political participation and citizenship; sectarianism, gender and identity formation.
£999.99
Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Syartas Reise: Menschen Im Kirchenasyl
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£999.99
Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP Mediums, Monks, and Amulets: Thai Popular
Book SynopsisMediums, Monks, and Amulets is a sophisticated yet accessible study of the state of popular Buddhist beliefs as they are practiced in Thailand today. Using a combination of focused case studies and analysis, Pattana Kitiarsa explores the nature and evolution of popular Buddhism over the past three decades by focusing on those individuals who practice, popularize, and profit from it. The case studies profiled include prominent spirit mediums and magic monks, the lottery fever surrounding the posthumous cult of folk singer Phumphuang Duangchan, the Chatukham-Rammathep amulet craze, and the cult of wealth attributed to preeminent monk Luang Pho Khun. It also explores the history of both popular and official opinion surrounding supernatural Buddhism, and its clashes with the rationalist, modernizing policies of Thailand's monarchy and government. Mediums, Monks, and Amulets contests the viewpoint that supernatural elements within popular Buddhism are a symptom of the decline of the religion. Instead, it argues that this hybridity between traditional Buddhist beliefs and elements from other religions is in fact indicative of the health and wealth of Buddhism as it negotiates large-scale commercialization and global modernity.
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NIAS Press Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State,
Book SynopsisThis remarkable and timely ethnography explores how fishing communities living on the fringe of the South China Sea in central Vietnam interact with state and religious authorities as well as their farmer neighbors - even while handling new geopolitical challenges. The focus is mainly on marginal people and their navigation between competing forces over the decades of massive change since their incorporation into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1975. The sea, however, plays a major role in this study as does the location: a once-peripheral area now at the center of a global struggle for sovereignty, influence and control in the South China Sea. The coastal fishing communities at the heart of this study are peripheral not so much because of geographical remoteness as their presumed social 'backwardness'; they only partially fit into the social imaginary of Vietnam's territory and nation. The state thus tries to incorporate them through various cultural agendas while religious reformers seek to purify their religious practices. Yet, recently, these communities have also come to be seen as guardians of an ancient fishing culture, important in Vietnam's resistance to Chinese claims over the South China Sea. The fishers have responded to their situation with a blend of conformity, co-option and subtle indiscipline. A complex, triadic relationship is at play here. Within it are various shifting binaries - e.g. secular/religious, fishers/farmers, local ritual/Buddhist doctrine, etc. - and different protagonists (state officials, religious figures, fishermen and -women) who construct, enact, and deconstruct these relations in shifting alliances and changing contexts. Fishers, Monks and Cadres is a significant new work. Its vivid portrait of local beliefs and practices makes a powerful argument for looking beyond monolithic religious traditions. Its triadic analysis and subtle use of binaries offer startlingly fresh ways to view Vietnamese society and local political power. The book demonstrates Vietnam is more than urban and agrarian society in the Red River Basin and Mekong Delta. Finally, the author builds on intensive, long-term research to portray a region at the forefront of geopolitical struggle, offering insights that will be fascinating and revealing to a much broader readership.
£999.99
NIAS Press Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of
Book SynopsisWhat does childhood mean in contemporary Thailand? What constitutes childhood in a slum? How does childhood figure in the construction of national citizenships? Rich in ethnographic detail, this fascinating, engaging and illuminating study explores the daily lives, constraints, and social worlds of children born in the slums of Bangkok, and their ways of defining themselves in relation to a range of governing technologies, state and non-state actors, and broad cultural politics. It does so by interrogating the layered meanings of “childhood” in slums, schools, Buddhist temples, Christian NGOs, state and international aid organisations, as well as social media. Giuseppe Bolotta’s analysis employs “childhood” as a prism to make sense of broader socio-political, religious, and economic transformations in Thai society. By examining the competition between different Thai and foreign actors to define and control the world-view formed by these children, he demonstrates how Bangkok slums are political arenas within which local, national and global social forces and interests converge and clash. At the same time, this analysis highlights the roles played by Bangkok’s poor children in processes of social change, considering how young people’s efforts to make sense of themselves in an era of authoritarian rule reflect the broader tensions facing the urban poor in this complex moment of Thai history. The book shows how “marginal childhoods” and the “cultural technologies of childhood” – schools, religious agencies, NGOs – reflect both endemic inequalities in Thailand’s larger socio-political structure and global transformations in transnational childhood governance. Marginalized young people’s increasingly plural cultural references create space for both existential fragmentation and creative self-reformulation, which provide socially disadvantaged citizens with unexpected religious, economic, and political resources to challenge Thai society’s generational structures of power. Through these arguments, Belittled Citizens demonstrates that “childhood” is best understood in Thailand as a political category that has been fundamental to the military state’s rule and, potentially, its undoing. It also shows more broadly how attention to children, typically excluded from national politics and therefore invisible in most political analyses, has important potential for producing startling insights into contemporary Southeast Asian societies.Trade ReviewThis splendidly original and meticulously documented exploration of the constricted life chances of Bangkok’s slum children illuminates the problems of youth and class in a world shaped by karmic concepts of destiny and hierarchy. Gracefully written and resonant with compassionate insight, it deserves a wide readership. – Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University, author of Siege of the Spirits
£20.66
NIAS Press Salafism and the State: Islamic Activism and
Book SynopsisRecent studies of Indonesian Islam have pointed to the growing prominence of ‘conservative’ and globally expansive Islamic doctrines. Salafism is one such doctrine, and it has gained increasing popularity in Indonesia over the past several decades. Aiming to propagate a ‘literalist’ interpretation of Islam, Salafi activists argue that many local Islamic traditions, histories and cultures are unIslamic. This has led to significant controversy, and accusations by many Indonesians that Salafism is foreign to country, an intolerant religion, and should have no part in the religious life of the nation. This book offers an ethnographic study of this often misunderstood and controversial movement. It explains why Salafism is growing in numbers, especially amongst young people, and how Salafi activists promote their faith within the wider public. It explores the range of propagational activities and products Salafis use in their public outreach, including literature, mosque sermons, social media ventures, and even fashion, and describes how these activities are tailored to a young Indonesian audience. Salafis may have global roots, but as this book outlines, its success in Indonesia is best understood as an intrinsically local phenomenon entangled within Indonesian ideas of Islamic praxis, consumerism, modernity, political action and citizenship. Salafi activists do not see themselves as foreign religious agents or detached from Indonesian life, but increasingly as part of a religiously conservative moral vanguard. Salafism is, consequently, part of the broader re-orientation of social, cultural and political life we are seeing in contemporary Indonesia.Trade Review‘Chris Chaplin’s carefully argued and sophisticated analysis of Salafism in Indonesia not only shows its appeal as a mix of social movement and individualizing force; it leverages rich ethnographic detail to reveal Salafism’s internal tensions and paradoxes as a defining trait, a necessary condition for the movement’s growth as it continues to inspire an increasingly conservative and politicized religious landscape. Relevant well beyond the Indonesian context, this book is an important contribution to the study of Islam. It will be widely read.’ (Dr David Kloos, KITLV - Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies)
£999.99
Peeters Stati E Confessioni Religiose in Europa - Church
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£22.00
Viella Senato Sapiente: L'Alba Della Cultura Laica a
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£99.74
Edizioni Terra Santa Per Una Cultura Di Pace in Terra Santa
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£32.00
Edizioni Terra Santa Ponti Non Muri: Cantieri Di Incontro Tra
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£999.99
Viella Papacy Religious Orders and International Politics in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
£33.32
Gregorian & Biblical Press Religion and Politics: Religious Liberty and
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£26.00
Gregorian & Biblical Press Ethics of Coexistence or Ethics of Conflict:
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£31.77
Peeters Publishers Essays on Religious and Political Experience
Book SynopsisThe precise nature and relationship between religious and political experiences has been the subject of much controversy and debate in recent years. It is well known that some religious experiences have been used to justify terrible political violence and ideologies, causing serious problems in the social and political life of modern citizens. The purpose of this book is to study the nature of religious experiences and work out their spiritual and political implications. Unlike spiritual experiences that limit themselves to the lives of the individual at a personal level, political experiences tend to have vast social consequences. This book advances the argument that religious experiences on many occasions have contributed immensely to spiritual and social progress, and that they must not be confused with political prejudices and motivated ideologies of some disgruntled individuals.
£53.87
