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Author : Tamir Moustafa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108423946
Constituting Religion examines how constitutional provisions for both Islam and liberal rights catalyze conflicts over religion in Malaysia and feed a 'rights-versus-rites' binary. This title is also available as Open Access.
Author : John Clifford Holt,Jacob N. Kinnard,Jonathan S. Walters
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791487051
Interviews with scientific leaders focus on the challenges, promises, and perils of science and technology.
Author : Robert A. Orsi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521883917
Informative and provocative, this book introduces readers to debates in the contemporary study of religion and suggests future research possibilities.
Author : Susan H. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139481267
Constituting Equality addresses the question, how would you write a constitution if you really cared about gender equality? The book takes a design-oriented approach to the broad range of issues that arise in constitutional drafting concerning gender equality. Each section of the book examines a particular set of constitutional issues or doctrines across a range of different countries to explore what works, where, and why. Topics include: governmental structure (particularly electoral gender quotas); rights provisions; constitutional recognition of cultural or religious practices that discriminate against women; domestic incorporation of international law; and the role of women in the process of constitution making. Interdisciplinary in orientation and global in scope, the book provides a menu for constitutional designers and others interested in how the fundamental legal order might more effectively promote gender equality.
Author : Kristen Tobey
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271078281
In September 1980, eight Catholic activists made their way into a Pennsylvania General Electric plant housing parts for nuclear missiles. Evading security guards, these activists pounded on missile nose cones with hammers and then covered the cones in their own blood. This act of nonviolent resistance was their answer to calls for prophetic witness in the Old Testament: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not take up sword against nation; they shall never again know war.” Plowshares explores the closely interwoven religious and social significance of the group’s use of performance to achieve its goals. It looks at the group’s acts of civil disobedience, such as that undertaken at the GE plant in 1980, and the Plowshares’ behavior at the legal trials that result from these protests. Interpreting the Bible as a mandate to enact God’s kingdom through political resistance, the Plowshares work toward “symbolic disarmament,” with the aim of eradicating nuclear weapons. Plowshares activists continue to carry out such “divine obediences” against facilities where equipment used in the production or deployment of nuclear weapons is manufactured or stored. Whether one agrees or disagrees with their actions, this volume helps us better understand their motivations, logic, identity, and ultimate goal.
Author : Jeroen Temperman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107124172
This book conceptualizes the 'prohibition of advocacy of religious hatred' from the perspectives of international and comparative law.
Author : Leigh Eric Schmidt
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674009981
ÒFaith cometh by hearingÓÑso said Saint Paul, and devoted Christians from Augustine to Luther down to the present have placed particular emphasis on spiritual arts of listening. In quiet retreats for prayer, in the noisy exercises of Protestant revivalism, in the mystical pursuit of the voices of angels, Christians have listened for a divine call. But what happened when the ear tuned to GodÕs voice found itself under the inspection of Enlightenment critics? This book takes us into the ensuing debate about Òhearing thingsÓÑan intense, entertaining, even spectacular exchange over the auditory immediacy of popular Christian piety. The struggle was one of encyclopedic range, and Leigh Eric Schmidt conducts us through natural histories of the oracles, anatomies of the diseased ear, psychologies of the unsound mind, acoustic technologies (from speaking trumpets to talking machines), philosophical regimens for educating the senses, and rational recreations elaborated from natural magic, notably ventriloquism and speaking statues. Hearing Things enters this labyrinthÑall the new disciplines and pleasures of the modern earÑto explore the fate of Christian listening during the Enlightenment and its aftermath. In SchmidtÕs analysis the reimagining of hearing was instrumental in constituting religion itself as an object of study and suspicion. The mysticÕs ear was hardly lost, but it was now marked deeply with imposture and illusion.
Author : Paul Christopher Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226749860
What distinguishes humans from nonhumans? Two common answers—free will and religion—are in some ways fundamentally opposed. Whereas free will enjoys a central place in our ideas of spontaneity, authorship, and deliberation, religious practices seem to involve a suspension of or relief from the exercise of our will. What, then, is agency, and why has it occupied such a central place in theories of the human? Automatic Religion explores an unlikely series of episodes from the end of the nineteenth century, when crucial ideas related to automatism and, in a different realm, the study of religion were both being born. Paul Christopher Johnson draws on years of archival and ethnographic research in Brazil and France to explore the crucial boundaries being drawn at the time between humans, “nearhumans,” and automata. As agency came to take on a more central place in the philosophical, moral, and legal traditions of the West, certain classes of people were excluded as less-than-human. Tracking the circulation of ideas across the Atlantic, Johnson tests those boundaries, revealing how they were constructed on largely gendered and racial foundations. In the process, he reanimates one of the most mysterious and yet foundational questions in trans-Atlantic thought: what is agency?
Author : Nadeem A. Memon,Mariam Alhashmi,Mohamad Abdalla
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000386752
This book demonstrates why and how it is necessary to redesign Islamic Education curriculum in the K-12 sector globally. From Western public schools that integrate Muslim perspectives to be culturally responsive, to public and private schools in Muslim minority and majority contexts that teach Islamic studies as a core subject or teach from an Islamic perspective, the volume highlights the unique global and sociocultural contexts that support the disparate trajectories of Islamic Education curricula. Divided into three distinct parts, the text discusses current Islamic education curricula and considers new areas for inclusion as part of a general renewal effort that includes developing curricula from an Islamic worldview, and the current aspirations of Islamic education globally. By providing insights on key concepts related to teaching Islam, case studies of curriculum achievements and pitfalls, and suggested processes and pillars for curriculum development, contributors present possibilities for researchers and educators to think about teaching Islam differently. This text will benefit researchers, doctoral students, and academics in the fields of secondary education, Islamic education, and curriculum studies. Those interested in religious education as well as the sociology and theory of religion more broadly will also enjoy this volume.
Author : Sarah-Jane Page,Heather Shipley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351381192
This book examines key themes and concepts pertaining to religious and sexual identities and expressions, mapping theoretical, methodological, and empirical dimensions. It explores the ways in which debates around sexuality and religion have been framed, and what research is still needed to expand the field as it develops. Through the deployment of contemporary research, including data from the authors’ own projects, Religion and Sexualities offers an encompassing account of the sociology of sexuality and religion, considering theoretical and methodological lenses, queer experiences, and how sexuality is gendered in religious contexts. This comprehensive text will act as an essential accompaniment to scholars and students across the social sciences and humanities, whether they have a general interest in the field or are embarking on their own research in this area.
Author : Stephen L. Carter
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1994-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780385474986
The Culture Of Disbelief has been the subject of an enormous amount of media attention from the first moment it was published. Hugely successful in hardcover, the Anchor paperback is sure to find a large audience as the ever-increasing, enduring debate about the relationship of church and state in America continues. In The Culture Of Disbelief, Stephen Carter explains how we can preserve the vital separation of church and state while embracing rather than trivializing the faith of millions of citizens or treating religious believers with disdain. What makes Carter's work so intriguing is that he uses liberal means to arrive at what are often considered conservative ends. Explaining how preserving a special role for religious communities can strengthen our democracy, The Culture Of Disbelief recovers the long tradition of liberal religious witness (for example, the antislavery, antisegregation, and Vietnam-era antiwar movements). Carter argues that the problem with the 1992 Republican convention was not the fact of open religious advocacy, but the political positions being advocated.
Author : T. Bremer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230590021
This volume concentrates on the 'conceptual boundary' through Europe which is determined by Western and Eastern Christianity. The chapters show that the boundary has never been a stable and defined division, but that it was also subject to change and development and a place of encounter and exchange between religions and cultures.
Author : Simone Raudino,Patricia Sohn
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780472902682
This volume offers a nuanced picture with specific instances of religion and politics in Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, and Hindu contexts, broadly presenting the phenomenon of religion and politics via country and thematic case studies. Qualitative, quantitative, material, philosophical, and theological analyses draw upon social theory to show how (and why) religion matters deeply in each time and place. The authors and contributors demonstrate that religion is a significant force that drives societies and polities around the world, and that a radical change in the Western understanding of value-driven global politics is needed. Beyond the Death of God offers new, local voices to Western audiences—through essays that suggest the need for an appreciation of Divinity as a quintessence holding a significant place in the hearts, minds, social orders, and political organization of polities around the world.
Author : Gert Biesta,Patricia Hannam
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004446397
Religion and Education: The Forgotten Dimensions of Religious Education? explores fundamental questions about the role of religion and education in contemporary religious education. Drawing from a range of educational and religious traditions and perspectives, it investigates the future of religious education for all.
Author : Dominic Legge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198794196
This work brings to light the Trinitarian riches in Thomas Aquinas's Christology.