Search Results - "secularism"

Masked Atheism : Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home / by LaMonaca, Maria

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New Multicultural Identities in Europe : Religion and Ethnicity in Secular Societies /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; Chapter 1 The Manifestation of Identities in a Plural Post-Secular Europe; Part I : Post-Migrant Interactions/Identifications; Chapter 2 New and Old Identity Patterns of Religious Young Muslims in Germany; Chapter 3 Connecting Home and School: on the Second Generation Muslim Children's Agency in Belgian Schools; Chapter 4 Immigrant Identity, Social Adaptation and Post-Secular Society in Europe; Chapter 5 Manufacturing Self-Respect: Stigma, Pride and Cultural Juggling among Dalit Youth in Spain; Chapter 6 A Case of Euro-Muslimness in Poland? …”
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Exiles in the City : Hannah Arendt and Edward W. Said in Counterpoint / by Spanos, William V.

Table of Contents: “…The calling and the question concerning the secular --…”
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Christian Masculinity : Men and Religion in Northern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries /

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Sex and Drugs before Rock 'n' Roll : Youth Culture and Masculinity during Holland's Golden Age / by Roberts, Benjamin, 1965-

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Modern Islamic Thinking and Activism : Dynamics in the West and in the Middle East /

Table of Contents: “…Post secularism, post-Islamism and Islam in the public sphere / Ihsan Yılmaz ; The Arab revolutions and Islamic civil society / Emilio Giuseppe Platti ; The Muslim Brotherhood and the democratic experience in Egypt / Roel Meijer -- Contemporary Islamic social activism. …”
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Animal Rights Activism : A Moral-Sociological Perspective on Social Movements / by Jacobsson, Kerstin, Lindblom, Jonas

Table of Contents: “…Morality and Emotions in Social MovementsTypes of Emotion Work in Animal Rights Activism; Containing; Ventilation; Ritualization; Micro-shocking; Normalization of Guilt; Conclusion; 4. Secular Religion; A Neo-Durkheimian Perspective on Secular Religion; Our Perspective in Relation to Previous Research; Elements of Secular Religion in Animal Rights Activism; Experiences of Awakening and Conversion; Dedication and Commitment; A Meaning in Suffering and Guilt; The Moral Community and the Surrounding World; Protection of the Sacred; Rituals; Conclusion; 5. …”
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Corruption as a Last Resort : Adapting to the Market in Central Asia / by McMann, Kelly M., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…An absence of alternatives : a new framework for understanding corruption -- Alternatives to corruption and the impact of market reform : the arguments and their theoretical implications -- Bribery, favoritism, and clientelism : evidence from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan -- Market actors as an unrealized alternative : the impact of market reforms -- Islamic institutions and secular charities : obstacles to providing substitute resources -- Families : the uneven impact of market reforms -- Reducing corruption : policy recommendations -- Appendix : statistical analysis.…”
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The Art of Distances : Ethical Thinking in Twentieth-Century Literature / by Stan, Corina

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Adorno and Barthes on the question of the right (di)stance -- The pathos of distances in "a world of banished people" -- George Orwell's critique of sincerity and the obligation of tactlessness -- The inferno of saviors: notes in the margin of Elias Canetti's lifework -- A socialism of distances, or on the difficulties of wise love: Iris Murdoch's secular community -- "The world in me": the distantiality of everyday life -- In search of a whole self: Benjamin's childhood fragments -- Annie Ernaux's diaries of the outside -- Gunter Grass's century -- Damon Galgut on emptying oneself for sleep -- Conclusion.…”
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Christianity, Democracy, and the Shadow of Constantine /

Table of Contents: “…Moral argument in the human rights debate of the Russian orthodox church -- Post-communist orthodox countries and secularization : the Lautsi case and the fracture of Europe -- Power to the people : orthodoxy, consociational democracy, and the move beyond phyletism -- Power, protest, and perichoresis : on being church in a troubled world -- Strange fruit : Augustine, liberalism, and the good Samaritan -- An orthodox encounter with liberal democracy -- Democracy and the dynamics of death : orthodox reflections on the origin, purpose, and limits of politics -- "I have overcome the world" : the church, the liberal state, and Christ's two natures in the Russian politics of theosis -- Emperors and bishops of Constantinople -- Stepping out of Constantine's shadow -- "You cannot have a church without an Empire" : political orthodoxy in Byzantium -- Roman catholicism and democracy : the postconciliar era -- How (not) to be a political theologian.…”
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Anatomy of a Civil War : Sociopolitical Impacts of the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey / by Gurses, Mehmet

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Dislocalism : The Crisis fo Globalization and the Remobilizing of Americanism / by Chandra, Sarika, 1969-

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The Enemy Within : Culture Wars and Political Identity in Novels of the French Third Republic / by Chaitin, Gilbert D.

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Discrimination at Work : Comparing European, French, and American Law / by Mercat-Bruns, Marie

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Realism's Empire : Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel / by Baker, Geoffrey, 1973-

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