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Author: Russell Sandberg
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2024-06-05
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1800886195
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis incisive book delineates the development of Law and Religion as a sub-discipline, critically reflecting on the author’s own role in constructing the field. It develops a subversive social systems theory in order to take both law and religion seriously and to challenge them equally.
Author: Timothy Samuel Shah
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-02-29
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 0199827982
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years, the role of religion in the study and conduct of international affairs has become increasingly important. The essays in this volume seek to question and remedy the problematic neglect of religion in extant scholarship, grappling with puzzles, issues, and questions concerning religion and world affairs in six major areas. Contributors critically revisit the "secularization thesis," which proclaimed the steady erosion of religion's public presence as an effect of modernization; explore the relationship between religion, democracy, and the juridico-political discourse of human rights; assess the role of religion in fomenting, ameliorating, and redressing violent conflict; and consider the value of religious beliefs, actors, and institutions to the delivery of humanitarian aid and the fostering of socio-economic development. Finally, the volume addresses the representation of religion in the expanding global media landscape, the unique place of religion in American foreign policy, and the dilemmas it presents. Drawing on the work of leading scholars as well as policy makers and analysts, Rethinking Religion and World Affairs is the first comprehensive and authoritative guide to the interconnections of religion and global politics.
Author: Craig Calhoun
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-08-25
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0199796688
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays examines how ''the secular'' is constituted and understood, and how new understandings of secularism and religion shape analytic perspectives in the social sciences, politics, and international affairs.
Author: Warren A. Nord
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014-07-01
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 1469617455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWarren Nord's thoughtful book tackles an issue of great importance in contemporary America: the role of religion in our public schools and universities. According to Nord, public opinion has been excessively polarized by those religious conservatives who would restore religious purposes and practices to public education and by those secular liberals for whom religion is irrelevant to everything in the curriculum. While he maintains that public schools and universities must not promote religion, he also argues that there are powerful philosophical, political, moral, and constitutional reasons for requiring students to study religion. Indeed, only if religion is included in the curriculum will students receive a truly liberal education, one that takes seriously a variety of ways of understanding the human experience. Intended for a broad audience, Nord's comprehensive study encompasses American history, constitutional law, educational theory and practice, theology, philosophy, and ethics. It also discusses a number of current, controversial issues, including multiculturalism, moral education, creationism, academic freedom, and the voucher and school choice movements.
Author: Stewart M. Hoover
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 1997-01-31
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780761901716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book links the growing connections between media, culture and religion into a coherent theoretical whole. It examines, amongst others, the effect on cultural practices and the increasing autonomy and individualized practice of religion.
Author: Michel Rosenfeld
Publisher:
Published: 2018-07-05
Total Pages: 515
ISBN-13: 1107173302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the multifaceted debate on the interconnection between conscientious objections, religious liberty, and the equality of women and sexual minorities.
Author: Glenn Tinder
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2007-09-28
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 080280392X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Liberty is a dangerous concept. It's sure to be misused and, if left unchecked, will likely bring not social harmony and happiness but their opposites. Nonetheless, liberty is absolutely necessary: without it there can be no authentic community. People are not free to do the right thing unless they are free to do the wrong thing; if they can't be wrong, they can't be right." "Thus does Glenn Tinder argue emphatically for "negative liberty" - the liberty that wants primarily to be left alone, with the authorities interfering as little as possible in the lives of people - and against "positive liberty" - a liberty that seeks to guide people into a "fulfilling" life." "The substance of Tinder's book lies at the intersection of several major themes - communication, human fallenness, the necessity of liberty, standing alone, and eschatology - each considered in light of learning what liberty truly is and how it affects the world at large."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Winnifred Sullivan
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011-08-29
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0804775362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing together scholars with a variety of perspectives and orientations, this work examines the interconnections between law and religion and the unexpected histories and anthropologies of legal secularism in a globalizing modernity.
Author: Brian D. Lepard
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9780271046952
DOWNLOAD EBOOK[In this text, the author] provides [an] exploration of legal and moral justifications for humanitarian intervention ... He opens new analytic vistas and provides a foundation for resolving conflicts over the content of the law. He [also] applies the framework in masterly examinations of intervention in Bosnia, Somalia, Rwanda, Haiti, and Kosovo.-Back cover.
Author: Gregory A. Lipton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 019068450X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring how the medieval mystic Ibn 'Arabi has been read as an inclusive universalist through the interpretative field of Perennial Philosophy, this book shows how his metaphysics is inseparably intertwined with Islamic supersessionism. Ibn 'Arabi's universalist reception is thus traced to lineages of Eurocentrism, revealing how Perennialism is itself exclusionary.
