Search Results - "secularism"

Tillich and the new religious paradigm by Vahanian, Gabriel, 1927-2012

Table of Contents: “…From Tillich to Tillich -- A quest for the new religious paradigm -- The secular : from the sacred to the holy -- Utopia and the sacred : religion east and west -- Kairos and utopia -- Word and sacrament -- Jesus and the Christ -- Dogma into poetry.…”
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Fever reading affect and reading badly in the early American public sphere / by Millner, Michael

Table of Contents: “…The senses of reading -- Good and bad reading in the early United States -- Obscene reading : the senses of reading badly -- Scandalous reading : the intrigues of the new public sensorium -- Prayerful reading : religious affect and the secular public sphere.…”
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Globalization challenged conviction, conflict, community / by Rupp, George

Table of Contents: “…Conviction in an age of globalization -- Local conflict, global migration -- Globalization and the challenge of inclusive community -- Jagdish Bhagwati : arguing for pluralism -- Jeremy Waldron, secularism and the limits of community -- Wayne Proudfoot : religious convictions and global justice -- Another look at conflict, community, and conviction.…”
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Revolutionary womanhood feminisms, modernity, and the state in Nasser's Egypt / by Bier, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Egyptian women in question : the historical roots of state feminism -- Between home and workplace : fashioning the "working woman" -- Law, secularism and intimacy : debating the personal status laws -- The family is a factory : regulating reproduction -- Our sisters in struggle : state feminism and Third World imaginaries.…”
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New Babylonians a history of Jews in modern Iraq / by Bashkin, Orit, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Brothers and others : Iraqi identity and Arab Jewishness -- Nationalism and patriotism : visions of the nation -- The effendia : questions of secularism and Judaism -- Friends, neighbors, and enemies : fascism, anti-Semitism, and enemies -- Red Baghdad : Iraqi Jews and the ICP, 1941-51 -- An end? …”
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Religion and politics in international relations : the modern myth / by Fitzgerald, Timothy, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Thomas, religion resurging, and international relations -- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd : the politics of secularism in international relations -- Where the author stands : a question of commitment.…”
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The Sage in Harlem : H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s / by Scruggs, Charles

Table of Contents: “…-- Mencken and "the colored brother" -- The age of satire: the teacher and his pupils -- The dream of the secular city: Mencken, Locke, and the "little American renaissance" -- Et tu Mencken? …”
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The rise of Mormonism by Stark, Rodney

Table of Contents: “…Extracting social scientific models from Mormon history -- Joseph Smith among the revelators -- Mormon networks of faith -- Rationality and Mormon sacrifice -- Modernization, secularization, and Mormon growth -- The basis of Mormon success -- The rise of a New World faith.…”
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The ideal refugees : gender, Islam, and the Sahrawi politics of survival / by Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the "ideal" refugees -- Engendering the colonial encounter -- The Sahrawi refugee camps : international and solidarity networks -- Emerging discourse : concealing Islam -- Secular sisters, Muslim others, and the politics of survival -- Discursive silences, "ideal women", and directing aid -- Conclusion.…”
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Reconsidering No man knows my history Fawn M. Brodie and Joseph Smith in retrospect /

Table of Contents: “…Bringhurst -- Applause, attack, and ambivalence : varied responses to No man knows my history / Newell G. Bringhurst -- Secular or sectarian history? : a critique of No man knows my history / Marvin S. …”
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Inside Islam by Delcambre, Anne-Marie, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…-- Islam and the West? -- Islam and secularism? -- Islam and democracy? -- Islam against Islamic fundamentalism? …”
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The origins of Christian democracy politics and confession in modern Germany / by Mitchell, Maria D., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Confessional conflict in German history -- Politics in defeat: the organizational beginnings of Christian democracy -- Christian democratic organization beyond the British zone: priests, Protestants, patriarchy -- Secularism, materialism, and rechristianization: the construction of a Christian democratic ideology -- Antimaterialism applied: ideological positions in the early CDU -- Christian democracy in practice: economic discourse and policy -- The CDU in council: forging economic and cultural policy -- Christian democracy and confessional culture in the Federal Republic -- Conclusion.…”
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Atatürk an intellectual biography / by Hanioğlu, M. Şükrü

Table of Contents: “…: the Turkish War of Independence -- The secular republic -- Nationalism and Kemalism -- Turkey and the West.…”
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Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel by Coleman, Dawn (Dawn Davina), 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Creating the preacher's authority -- The slow rise of novel in America -- The radical Protestant preaching of George Lippard -- Secularizing the sermon in The scarlet letter -- Playing preacher in Moby-Dick -- The unsentimental woman preacher of Uncle Tom's cabin -- The borrowed sermons of Clotel; or, the President's daughter.…”
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Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel / by Coleman, Dawn (Dawn Davina), 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Creating the preacher's authority -- The slow rise of novel in America -- The radical Protestant preaching of George Lippard -- Secularizing the sermon in The scarlet letter -- Playing preacher in Moby-Dick -- The unsentimental woman preacher of Uncle Tom's cabin -- The borrowed sermons of Clotel; or, the President's daughter.…”
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The new inquisitions heretic-hunting and the intellectual origins of modern totalitarianism / by Versluis, Arthur, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : heresy -- Heresy and the inquisition -- Czeslaw Milosz and the captive mind -- The archetypal inquisition -- Joseph de Maistre and the Inquisition -- Juan Donoso Cortés and the "sickness" of the liberal state -- Georges Sorel and Charles Maurras : the emergence of secular state corporatism -- Maurice Barrès and Charles Maurras : the nationalist substitute for Catholicism -- The secularization of heresiophobia -- Carl Schmitt, the Inquisition, and totalitarianism -- Carl Schmitt and early modern Western esotericism -- Carl Schmitt and gnosticism -- Communism and the heresy of religion -- Eric Voegelin, anti-gnosticism, and the totalitarian emphasis on order -- The rhetoric of anti-gnosticism -- Voegelinian inquisitors -- Norman Cohn and the pursuit of heretics -- The inner demons of Europe once again -- Theodor Adorno and the "occult" -- Another long, strange trip -- That old bugaboo, "gnosticism," yet again -- An epidemic of evil! …”
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A greener faith religious environmentalism and our planet's future / by Gottlieb, Roger S.

Table of Contents: “…Religion and the human meaning of environmental crisis -- Religion, nature, environment -- Religious environmentalism and secular society -- Sustainable religion -- Religious environmentalism in action -- Environmentalism as spirituality -- Opening the heart : the ritual life of religious environmentalism -- Five faces of religious environmentalism -- Obstacles, prospects, hope.…”
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Deuteronomic theology and the significance of Torah a reappraisal / by Vogt, Peter T., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Centralization, secularization, and demythologization in Deuteronomy -- The appointment of judges and Torah : Deuteronomy 1:9-18 -- The presence of Yahweh and Torah : Deuteronomy 4:1-6:9 -- The supremacy of the giver of Torah : Deuteronomy 12 -- Political administration and Torah : Deuteronomy 16:18-18:22.…”
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The constitution of religious freedom God, politics, and the First Amendment / by Goldford, Dennis J., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Constitutional fundamentals -- Religious minorities, religious freedom, and religion -- Conventional vs. radical establishment clause jurisprudence -- Orthodoxy and neutrality -- The concept of coercion in establishment clause jurisprudence -- The concept of position taking in establishment clause jurisprudence -- The theoretical core of the establishment clause : the secularity principle.…”
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The god market how globalization is making India more Hindu / by Nanda, Meera

Table of Contents: “…India and the global economy : a very brief introduction -- The rush hour of the gods : globalization and middle-class religiosity -- The state-temple-corporate complex and the banality of Hindu nationalism -- India@superpower.com : how we see ourselves -- Rethinking secularization (with India in mind).…”
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