Search results

"Islamism and Party Politics in Indonesia" published on by Oxford University Press.

The question of language is decisive through the impressive Llull's work, and it is so also when he offers an interreligious disputatio and a political allegorization. All this accent is noted in the Llibre del gentil e dels tres savis and in the Llibre de les bèsties, with rhetorically different but effective resources. This paper pretends to show the importance of these works to achieve, by means of diverse linguistic styles, the everlasting purpose of Llull: to argue the Christian truth and to convert the people that not yet accept that. ; Es capital, en toda la monumental obra de Llull, la forma lingüística de plantear la disputatio interreligiosa y la alegorización política. Todo esto se aprecia en el Llibre del gentil e dels tres savis y en el Llibre de les bèsties, con distintos pero retóricamente eficaces recursos. Esta breve comunicación está dedicada a mostrar la importancia de estas obras para cumplir mediante variadísimos estilos lingüísticos con el sempiterno propósito luliano de argumentar la verdad cristiana y convertir a los que aún no la han aceptado.

AbstractThis article deals with the transformation of Catholic politics in Italy between 1942 and 1945 and the emergence of Christian Democracy as the dominant political party in the postwar years. It analyzes how Catholic politicians turned from reactionary critics of democracy to its champion. The article foregrounds a dimension that has not been given sufficient attention in scholarly works on political Catholicism and Christian Democracy, namely the religious content of thought. In the experiences of politicians and thinkers living through Fascism and war, transcendence and spirituality emerged as new markers of certainty that came to re-direct and ground democracy. Our conceptual argument is that Christian Democracy can be understood as a distinct form of "political spirituality," pace Foucault. The article further shows how this political spirituality became "applied" in a series of ways in the immediate postwar period.

PART I. Reclaiming Religion for Political Science -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Why we need political science of religion -- Chapter 2 Political Science of Religion: Demarcating the field -- PART II. Theocracies -- Chapter 3 Religious Legitimation of Power and the Concept of Theocracy -- Chapter 4 Theocracies as Political Systems -- PART III. Religion in Democracies -- Chapter 5 Here to Stay: The role of religion in contemporary politics -- Chapter 6 Veto Players and Stakeholders: Religion in Polish and American politics

/ Table of Contents -- I Zur Theorie der Religion / Sociological Theories of Religion -- Ursprung, Funktion und Gehalt der Religion -- Asceticism and Mysticism. A Contribution towards the Sociology of Faith -- Systemanalyse und »Religiöse Bedürfnisse« -- Ursachen der Bewahrung der Religiosität des Kolchose-Bauern -- Religious Motives in Religious Movements -- II Religion und Sprache / Religion and Language -- In the Beginning was the Word. The Relationship of Language to Social Organization in Spiritualist Churches -- Some Forms of Religious Discourse -- The Function of Dialects in the Religious Life of the Bornholm Inhabitants -- Protestant Preachers in the Prophetic Line.

The premise of this new text is straightforward: Religion matters in world politics. Therefore, to comprehend the world around us, we need to understand how and why religion matters, analyze the interaction in a systematic way, and have a framework in which to fit facts and events that we cannot yet anticipate. The goal of Religion and Politics on the World Stage is to provide the information and tools necessary to accomplish those tasks.