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Author: Kevin R. den Dulk
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-11-19
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1137389753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe study of religion and politics is a strongly behavioral sub-discipline, and within the American context, scholars place tremendous emphasis on its influence on political attitudes and behaviors, resultuing in a better understanding of religion's ability to shape voting patterns, party affiliation, and views of public policy.
Author: Shireen Hunter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-12-18
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 131746124X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years, Islamic fundamentalist, revolutionary, and jihadist movements have overshadowed more moderate and reformist voices and trends within Islam. This compelling volume introduces the current generation of reformist thinkers and activists, the intellectual traditions they carry on, and the reasons for the failure of reformist movements to sustain broad support in the Islamic world today. Richly detailed regionally focused chapters cover Iran, the Arab East, the Maghreb, South Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, Europe, and North America. The editor's introductory chapter traces the roots of reformist thinking both in Islamic tradition and as a response to the challenge of modernity for Muslims struggling to reconcile the requirements of modernization with their cultural and religious values. The concluding chapter identifies commonalities, comparisons, and trends in the modernizing movements.
Author: Jolyon P. Mitchell
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2003-06-01
Total Pages: 770
ISBN-13: 9780567088079
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book to bring together many aspects of the interplay between religion, media and culture from around the world in a single comprehensive study. Leading international scholars provide the most up-to-date findings in their fields, and in a readable and accessible way.Some of the topics covered include religion in the media age, popular broadcasting, communication theology, popular piety, film and religion, myth and ritual in cyberspace, music and religion, communication ethics, and the nature of truth in media saturated cultures.The result is not only a wide-ranging resource for scholars and students, but also a unique introduction to this increasingly important phenomenon of modern life.
Author: Elizabeth Anne Oldmixon
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781349483914
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The central argument of this volume is that the influence of religion on politics and policy in the United States is mediated by and through political institutions such as Congress, the presidency, the courts, and bureaucracy. The great 20th century social movements, such as Prohibition and the Civil Rights Movement for African Americans, were informed by religious values and interests brought into the public square. But those values and interests are channeled and re-shaped by the process of policy-making itself. Political institutions are not merely ciphers for religious impulses. They provide the rules and context under which religious and secular interests seek policy influence. In order to fully understand this dynamic, we must look to the political institutions that make, implement, and interpret policy. The volume elaborates on this process by highlighting individual institutions with each chapter"--
Author: Jamal Greene
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1328518116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn eminent constitutional scholar reveals how our approach to rights is dividing America, and shows how we can build a better system of justice.
Author: Russell Blackford
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012-01-17
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 047065886X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the relationship between religion and the state Focusing on the intersection of religion, law, and politics in contemporary liberal democracies, Blackford considers the concept of the secular state, revising and updating enlightenment views for the present day. Freedom of Religion and the Secular State offers a comprehensive analysis, with a global focus, of the subject of religious freedom from a legal as well as historical and philosophical viewpoint. It makes an original contribution to current debates about freedom of religion, and addresses a whole range of hot-button issues that involve the relationship between religion and the state, including the teaching of evolution in schools, what to do about the burqa, and so on.
Author: Andrew Preston
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2015-04-17
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0812247027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite constitutional limitations, the points of contact between religion and politics have deeply affected all aspects of American political development since the founding of the United States. Within partisan politics, federal institutions, and movement activism, religion and politics have rarely ever been truly separate; rather, they are two forms of cultural expression that are continually coevolving and reconfiguring in the face of social change. Faithful Republic explores the dynamics between religion and politics in the United States from the early twentieth century to the present. Rather than focusing on the traditional question of the separation between church and state, this volume touches on many aspects of American political history, addressing divorce, civil rights, liberalism and conservatism, domestic policy, and economics. Together, the essays blend church history and lived religion to fashion an innovative kind of political history, demonstrating the pervasiveness of religion throughout American political life. Contributors: Lila Corwin Berman, Edward J. Blum, Darren Dochuk, Lily Geismer, Alison Collis Greene, Matthew S. Hedstrom, David Mislin, Andrew Preston, Bruce J. Schulman, Molly Worthen, Julian E. Zelizer.
Author: Tom Boylston
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2018-02-06
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 0520296494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction : prohibition and a ritual regime -- A history of mediation -- Fasting, bodies, and the calendar -- Proliferations of mediators -- Blood, silver, and coffee -- Spirits in the marketplace -- Concrete, bones, and feasts -- Echoes of the host -- The media landscape -- The knowledge of the world -- Conclusion
Author: Guy Redden
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-29
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1317098560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReligion is living culture. It continues to play a role in shaping political ideologies, institutional practices, communities of interest, ways of life and social identities. Mediating Faiths brings together scholars working across a range of fields, including cultural studies, media, sociology, anthropology, cultural theory and religious studies, in order to facilitate greater understanding of recent transformations. Contributors illustrate how religion continues to be responsive to the very latest social and cultural developments in the environments in which it exists. They raise fundamental questions concerning new media and religious expression, religious youth cultures, the links between spirituality, personal development and consumer culture, and contemporary intersections of religion, identity and politics. Together the chapters demonstrate how belief in the superempirical is negotiated relative to secular concerns in the twenty-first century.
Author: Nelson Tebbe
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2017-02-06
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 0674971434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTensions between religious freedom and equality law are newly strained in America. As lawmakers work to protect LGBT citizens and women seeking reproductive freedom, religious traditionalists assert their right to dissent from what they see as a new liberal orthodoxy. Some religious advocates are going further and expressing skepticism that egalitarianism can be defended with reasons at all. Legal experts have not offered a satisfying response—until now. Nelson Tebbe argues that these disputes, which are admittedly complex, nevertheless can be resolved without irrationality or arbitrariness. In Religious Freedom in an Egalitarian Age, he advances a method called social coherence, based on the way that people reason through moral problems in everyday life. Social coherence provides a way to reach justified conclusions in constitutional law, even in situations that pit multiple values against each other. Tebbe contends that reasons must play a role in the resolution of these conflicts, alongside interests and ideologies. Otherwise, the health of democratic constitutionalism could suffer. Applying this method to a range of real-world cases, Tebbe offers a set of powerful principles for mediating between religion and equality law, and he shows how they can lead to workable solutions in areas ranging from employment discrimination and public accommodations to government officials and public funding. While social coherence does not guarantee outcomes that will please the liberal Left, it does point the way toward reasoned, nonarbitrary solutions to the current impasse.
