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Author | : Theodora Dragostinova |
Publisher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2016-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9633861330 |
Journalists and policy-makers in the West have often assumed that the religious and ethno-national heterogeneity of the Balkans is the underlying reason for the numerous problems the area has faced throughout the twentieth century. The multiple and turbulent political transitions in the area, the dynamics of the interaction between Christianity and Islam, the contradictory and constantly shifting nationality policies, and the fluctuating identities of the diverse populations continue to be seen as major challenges to the stability of the region. By exploring the development of intricate religious, linguistic, and national dynamics in a variety of case studies throughout the Balkans, this volume demonstrates the existence of alternatives and challenges to nationalism in the area. The authors analyze a variety of national, non-national, and anti-national(ist) encounters in four areas?Bosnia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Albania?traditionally seen as ?hot-beds? of nationalist agitation and tension resulting from their populations' religious or ethno-national diversity. In their entirety, the contributions in this volume chart a more complex picture of the national dynamics. The authors recognize the existence of national tensions both in historical perspective and in contemporary times, but also suggest the possibility of different paths to the nation that did not involve violence but allowed for national accommodation and reconciliation.
Author | : Peter D. Beaulieu |
Publisher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 479 |
Release | : 2012-07-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0761858385 |
Peter D. Beaulieu examines the challenge posed by—and to—modernity and historic Islam as they encounter one another. He compares the Western separation of Church and state with the unitary Islamic State, and explores the proposed cultural and societal principles of the Second Vatican Council as potentially influencing long-term events in both arenas. Beaulieu’s research is comprehensive and richly documented, yet offers an accessible triangular inquiry into the mosque, the manger, and modernity. By restoring a place at the table for Trinitarian Christianity alongside the engulfing monotheism of Islam and the alternative skepticism of Western rationalism, this inquiry broadens the pallet of inter-religious and intercultural contact points. Beyond Secularism and Jihad? provides balanced attention to the differences as well as the similarities between Christianity, Islam, and modernity. An emerging theme is natural law, which is universal and intrinsic to all mankind and not confined to competing theologies. Neglected in the West that it helped create, natural law might contribute to the needed “grammar” for dialogue between the citizens in the West and the followers of Islam.
Author | : Phil Parshall |
Publisher | : Baker Publishing Group (MI) |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Christianity and other religions |
ISBN | : 9780801070891 |
Author | : Samuel J. Ogden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Religion and politics |
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Author | : Julia Martínez-Ariño |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2020-05-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1000059030 |
Governing Religious Diversity in Cities provides original insights into the governance of religious diversity in urban contexts from a variety of theoretical perspectives, and drawing on a wide range of empirical examples in Europe and Canada. Religious diversity is increasingly present and visible in cities across the world. Drawing on a wide selection of cases in Europe and Canada, this volume examines how this diversity is governed. While focusing on the urban dimension of governance, the chapters do not examine cities in isolation but take into account the interconnections between urban contexts and other scales, both within and beyond the borders of the nation-state. The contributors discuss a variety of empirical examples, ranging from the controversies around the celebration of the International Yoga Day in Vancouver, the mosque not built in Munich, and the governance of Islam in cities in France, Germany, Italy, Quebec and Spain. Adopting a critical perspective, they shed light on the factors shaping different governance patterns, and on their implications for various religious groups. Ultimately, this book shows that governing religious diversity is not a matter of black and white. Contributing to a growing field of academic research that focuses on the governance of religion in urban contexts, and providing lines for future research, Governing Religious Diversity in Cities will be of great interest to scholars in the sociology of religion, religious studies and urban studies. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Religion, State & Society.
Author | : Hans Joas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789080899766 |
Author | : Matthew C. Moen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780877228561 |
Since the late 1970s, transnational religious institutions have begun to reassert their own beliefs, contending that God's law is above state law and challenging states' claims of sovereignty. In turn, states have enforced their authority by establishing government-controlled state religions, by separating religion from politics, or by denying religion's influence over public and private affairs. This collection of original essays systematically examines the way in which three of the world's major monotheistic religions-Islam, Christianity and Judaism-interact with twentieth-century state systems. Focusing on the current trend toward renewed political conflict between religious groups and sovereign states, the authors analyze this interaction in Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, the United States, Eastern Europe, Germany, Israel, Egypt, Islamic Africa, Pakistan, and the Soviet Union. Author note: Matthew C. Moen is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Maine. >P>Lowell S. Gustafson is Assistant Professor Political Science at Villanova University.
Author | : Chiara Formichi |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2013-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134575424 |
Taking a critical approach to the concept of ‘religious pluralism’, this book examines the dynamics of religious co-existence in Asia as they are directly addressed by governments, or indirectly managed by groups and individuals. It looks at the quality of relations that emerge in encounters among people of different religious traditions or among people who hold different visions within the same tradition. Chapters focus in particular on the places of everyday religious diversity in Asian societies in order to explore how religious groups have confronted new situations of religious diversity. The book goes on to explore the conditions under which active religious pluralism emerges (or not) from material contexts of diversity.
Author | : Reza Aslan |
Publisher | : Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0812978307 |
Originally published as How to win a cosmic war by Random House in 2009.
Author | : Johan Herman Bavinck |
Publisher | : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Christianity and other religions |
ISBN | : 9780802810090 |