Europe Beyond Universalism and Particularism

Europe Beyond Universalism and Particularism
Author: S. Lindberg
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137361824

Resulting from an interdisciplinary dialogue between philosophy, political science and International Relations about Europe as a political community this volume rethinks the European political project beyond the rigid opposition between universalism and particularism approaching Europe as a space of the exposure of differences to each other.

Europe Beyond Universalism and Particularism

Europe Beyond Universalism and Particularism
Author: S. Lindberg
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137361824

Resulting from an interdisciplinary dialogue between philosophy, political science and International Relations about Europe as a political community this volume rethinks the European political project beyond the rigid opposition between universalism and particularism approaching Europe as a space of the exposure of differences to each other.

Rethinking Jewish Philosophy

Rethinking Jewish Philosophy
Author: Aaron W. Hughes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2014-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199356815

Rather than assume that the terms "philosophy" and "Judaism" simply belong together, Aaron W. Hughes explores the juxtaposition and the creative tension that ensues from their cohabitation. He examines the historical, cultural, intellectual, and religious filiations between Judaism and philosophy.

Religion in the European Refugee Crisis

Religion in the European Refugee Crisis
Author: Ulrich Schmiedel
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2018-02-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319679619

This book explores the roles of religion in the current refugee crisis of Europe. Combining sociological, philosophical, and theological accounts of this crisis, renowned scholars from across Europe examine how religion has been employed to call either for eliminating or for enforcing the walls around “Fortress Europe.” Religion, they argue, is radically ambiguous, simultaneously causing social conflict and social cohesion in times of turmoil. Charting the constellations, the conflicts, and the consequences of the current refugee crisis, this book thus answers the need for succinct but sustained accounts of the intersections of religion and migration.

Mapping a New World Order

Mapping a New World Order
Author: Vladimir Popov
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2017-06-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1786436485

This book identifies possible factors responsible for the recent rise of many developing countries. It examines how robust these trends actually are and speculatively predicts the implications and consequences that may result from a continuation of these trends. It also suggests possible scenarios of future development. Ultimately, it argues that the rise of ‘the Rest’ would not only imply geopolitical shifts, but could lead to proliferation of new growth models in the Global South and to profound changes in international economic relations.

Contemporary Christian-Cultural Values

Contemporary Christian-Cultural Values
Author: Cecilia Nahnfeldt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2021-05-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 100039249X

This book reconstructs the connection between religion and migration, drawing on post-colonial perspectives to shed light on what religion can contribute to migrant encounters. Examining the resources and motives for hospitality as lived in Christian contexts in the Nordic region, it addresses the content of talk about religion in public discourse, the concept having become something of an empty signifier in debates surrounding migration. Multidisciplinary in approach, this volume demonstrates that religion is not, in fact, an empty signifier, but gains substance through practice and interpretation. Considering the undeveloped potentiality of religion and the manner in which the unseen religious perspective in secularity becomes manifest in practice, this volume will appeal to social scientists and scholars of religion with interests in migration, refugee studies, theology, and Christian practice.

The Bibles of the Far Right

The Bibles of the Far Right
Author: Hannah M. Strømmen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2024
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0197789897

The Bibles of the Far Right is about a far-right worldview that has taken hold in contemporary Europe. It focuses on the role Bibles have come to play in this worldview. Starting with the case of far-right terrorism in Norway in 2011, the study argues that particular perceptions of "the Bible" and particular uses of biblical texts have been significant in calls to "protect" Europe against Islam. This study proposes new ways to understand political Bible-use today in order to respond to violence inspired by biblical texts.

Common Culture and the Ideology of Difference in Medieval and Contemporary Poland

Common Culture and the Ideology of Difference in Medieval and Contemporary Poland
Author: Teresa Pac
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2022-02-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1793626928

Teresa Pac provides a much-needed contribution to the discussion on shared culture as foundational to societal survival. Through the examination of common culture as a process in medieval Kraków, Poznań, and Lublin, Pac challenges the ideology of difference—institutional, religious, ethnic, and nationalistic. Similarly, Pac maintains, twenty-first century Polish leaders utilize anachronistic approaches in the invention of Polish Catholic identity to counteract the country’s increasing ethnic and religious diversity. As in the medieval period, contemporary Polish political and social elites subscribe to the European Union’s ideology of difference, legitimized by a European Christian heritage, and its intended basis for discrimination against non-Christians and non-white individuals under the auspices of democratic values and minority rights, among which Muslims are a significant target.

The Blackwell Companion to Hermeneutics

The Blackwell Companion to Hermeneutics
Author: Niall Keane
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 644
Release: 2016-01-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1118529634

A Companion to Hermeneutics is a collection of original essays from leading international scholars that provide a definitive historical and critical compendium of philosophical hermeneutics. Offers a definitive historical, systematic, and critical compendium of hermeneutics Represents state-of-the-art thinking on the major themes, topics, concepts and figures of the hermeneutic tradition in philosophy and those who have influenced hermeneutic thought, including Kant, Hegel, Schleiermacher Dilthey, Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur, Foucault, Habermas, and Rorty Explores the art and theory of interpretation as it intersects with a number of philosophical and inter-disciplinary areas, including humanism, theology, literature, politics, education and law Features contributions from an international cast of leading and upcoming scholars, who offer historically informed, philosophically comprehensive, and critically astute contributions in their individual fields of expertise Written to be accessible to interested non-specialists, as well asprofessional philosophers

The End of the World

The End of the World
Author: Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2017-03-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1786602636

This volume attempts to show that it is vital that we address the motif of the 'end' in contemporary world – but that this cannot be done without thinking it anew.