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AbstractThe traditional way of introducing comparative politics to freshmen, which is through the study of institutions, is contrasted with an alternative approach. An everyday-politics approach compares the daily struggles of global youth—how they cope in times of peace and war, and with issues of wealth and poverty, identity, education and employment, and citizenship and immigration. This approach contains four elements: juxtapositions, recognition of the vicissitudes of growing up in a more complex world, the use of stories, and social action in our daily lives. This combination "gently" introduces the concepts of comparative politics but with an emphasis on how politics affect the lives of other young people. These stories also show the various forms of political participation and political resistance in different countries. An everyday-politics approach, while still experimental, seems to yield some positive results in helping students care about politics, gaining an understanding of how much is at stake for them, and connecting them to the wider world.

1. Introduction : pluralism and political theory -- 2. Two metaphysical pluralists : Berlin and James -- 3. Classical pragmatism and pluralism -- 4. From pluralism to politics : four neo-Berlinian proposals -- 5. Value pluralism as an account of value -- 6. Towards a new pragmatist political theory -- 7. Can (political) liberals take their own side in an argument? -- 8. Religion and politics.

Die Zukunft der europäischen Religionskultur wird durch das Miteinander der christlichen Konfessionen, des Judentums und des Islam geprägt sein. Welches Potenzial für eine friedliche Gestaltung bringen diese drei Religionen mit? An welche historischen Epochen kann dabei angeknüpft werden? Wie verändert sich die Interpretation der Quellen der Religionen durch die mit dem vereinten Europa verbundenen Aufgaben? Voraussetzungen, Rahmenbedingungen und praktische Konsequenzen für eine friedliche Koexistenz der Religionen werden in diesem Band aus philosophischer, politikwissenschaftlicher, juristischer, historischer, theologischer und interreligiöser Perspektive reflektiert. Im Zentrum des Interesses stehen die Transformationsprozesse, die die Religionen durchlaufen, wenn sie künftig am Diskurs um die kulturelle Identität Europas konstruktiv teilnehmen wollen.

AbstractReligion and Law in the Early Modern history. The devaluation of the canon law by Protestant Reformers promoted the system-oriented presentations of law based on Roman law. Also in ius publicum there is a significant majority of Protestant authors. The situation differs from natural law and law of nations where the discourse of the 16

Introduction: Why Jewish, Muslim, and Queer? -- Part I. Boundary Crossings and Intersectionality -- 1. Queer-Jewish-Muslim: Constructing Hyphenated Religious Identities through Tactics of Intersubjectivity -- 2. Queer Disguises: Jewish Women's Performance of Race and Gender in the Colonial Maghreb -- 3. "A Living Tableau of Queerness": The Orient at the Crossroads of Genre and Gender in Proust's Recherche -- Part II. Public Discourse and Identity -- 4. Queering the Abrahamic Scriptures -- 5. A Corpus-Assisted Analysis of the Discursive Construction of LGBT Muslims and Jews in UK Media -- Part III. Building Community, Forging Solidarity -- 6. Religious Life Is Life Together: Ritual, Liminality, and Communitas among Queer Jews in Postsecular Britain -- 7. Eid Parties, Iftar Dinners, and Pride Parades: Navigating Queer Muslim Identity through Community -- Afterword: Lessons in Historical Nominalism -- Contributors -- Index.