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This book explores how contemporary approaches to the meaning of time and history follow patterns that are simultaneously political and theological. Even after postsecular critiques of Christianity, religion, and secularity, many influential ways of dividing time and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-13
Collection :
Radical Theologies and Philosophies
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The Justice and Development Party (AKP), the ruling political Islamists of Turkey since 2002, has been using the doctrine of necessity to legitimize human rights violations. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, president of Turkey, founder of the AKP and leader of the political...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-09-30
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This first study of faith-based development NGOs’ (FBOs) political roles focuses on how U.S. FBOs in international development educate and mobilize their constituencies. Most pursue cautious reformist agendas, but FBOs have sometimes played important roles in social...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-15
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy
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The book studies the way the luxurious fashion develops re-presentational politics by reinvesting symbolic fields such as art and culture, religion and the sacred as well as politics, in other words fields that represent a certain common pattern of life and a common...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2020-10-21
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This edited volume engages a long-standing religious power, the Holy See, to discuss the impact of the structural and postsecular transformations of international relations through the emergence of a global and digital public sphere. Despite the legal construction...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-30
Collection :
Culture and Religion in International Relations
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This book studies the relationship between British government and faith groups in its international development agenda within and beyond the context of Brexit. It includes aspects of International Relations, International Development, and Religion and Politics to trace...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-12
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy
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This book argues that Political Islam in the Iranian context evolved into three main schools of thought during the 1960s and 1970s: Jurisprudential Islam led by Ayatollah Khomeini, Leftist Islam led by Shariati, and Liberal Islam led by Bazargan. Despite the fact that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-14
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The topic of immigration is at the center of contemporary politics and, from a scholarly perspective, existing studies have documented that attitudes towards immigration have brought about changes in both partisanship and voting behavior. However, many scholars have...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-31
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy
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Based on 10 years of dedicated research, Dangerous Illusions is a battle cry for the human race to throw off religion in favour of logic and reason. In this committed and passionate book, author Vitaly Malkin - a philanthropist, business man and investor - argues for...
Editeur :
Arcadia Books
Parution :
2018-06-14
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One of the most enigmatic figures in history, Nostradamus - apothecary, astrologer and soothsayer - is a continual source of fascination. Indeed, his predictions are so much the stock-in-trade of the wildest merchants of imminent Doom that one could be forgiven for...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-03-16
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This edited volume brings together alternative and innovative approaches in conflict resolution. With traditional military intervention repeatedly leading to the transformation of entire regions into zones of instability and violence (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria),...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-13
Collection :
Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
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This book is concerned with the ideology of Islamophobia as a cultural racism, and argues that in order to understand its prevalence we must focus not only on what Islamophobia is, but also why diversely situated individuals and groups choose to employ its narratives...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-15
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Daniel Thieme beschreibt die religiöse Rede deutscher Spitzenpolitiker anhand ihrer Selbstzeugnisse. Der Autor zeigt eine große Vielfalt von Glaubensüberzeugungen und religiös begründeter politischer Standpunkte auf. Nach religionspsychologischen Anhaltspunkten werden...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-08-19
Collection :
Politik und Religion
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Teresa Forcades, Spanish Benedictine nun, theologian, physician and political activist, is one of Europe’s leading radical thinkers. Marrying her Catholic faith with a passion for social justice, she came to prominence for her eloquent condemnation of the abuses of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-11-28
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Adonis? influence on Arabic literature has been likened to that of T. S. Eliot in the English-speaking world. Yet alongside this spearheading of a modernist literary revolution, the secular Syrian-born poet is also renowned for his persistent and staunch attacks on...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-10-18
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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Politics in the U.S. provides a broad, inclusive, and rich range of chapters, in the study of religion and politics. Arranged in their historical context, chapters address themes of history, law, social and religious...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-04-15
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
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Formed from This Soil offers a complete history of religion in America that centers on the diversity of sacred traditions and practices that have existed in the country from its earliest days. Organized chronologically starting with the earliest Europeans searching for...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-10-10
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How are justifications for religious violence developed and do they differ from secular justifications for violence? Can liberal societies tolerate potentially violent religious groups? Can those who accept religious justifications for violence be dissuaded from acting...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-03-06
Collection :
Blackwell Public Philosophy Series
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In the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to astonishing advances in daily life, but technology and mass culture also threatened to erode the country's traditional moral character. As...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2014-02-11
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Bruno Latour’s long term project is to compare the felicity and infelicity conditions of the different values dearest to the heart of those who have ‘never been modern’. According to him, this is the only way to develop an anthropology of the Moderns. After his work on...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-02-05
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