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From the dawn of Islam to the present, the political history of 'Umān followed a different path from that of the rest of the Arabian peninsula. Until recently, the country was practically unknown, an almost forgotten outpost of a once prosperous maritime Arab civilization.

Bibliography: p. 214-220. ; Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Published also without thesis note. ; Vita. ; Thesis (PH. D.)--Columbia university, 1912. ; Bibliography: p. 214-220. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Gods of the state: atheism, Enlightenment and barbarity -- 2 Philosophy of religion's political character: myths of tolerance and the re-sanctification of politics -- 3 Liberalism, the ethics of citizenship and religious belief -- 4 Respecting an establishment of religion -- 5 The political identity of the Christian church reconsidered: some resources from the history of political theology -- 6 Religious truth in a globalising world: new challenges to philosophy of religion

Against Culture: Development, Politics, and Religion in Indian Alaska. Kirk Dombrowski. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. 247 pp.

ERRATA Versehentlich fehlerhafte Seitenüberschriften sind wie folgt zu ersetzen: S. 7, 9 Juristische Argumente S. 11, 13, 15 Politische Argumente S. 17, 19 Persönliche Argumente S. 53 Sakrale und nichtsakrale Konfiskation im Strafrecht S. 144, 146, 148, 150 Zum Stellenwert der Religion in der Krise Folgende Verweisungen lauten richtig: S. 96, in Anm. 3 > s.u. S. 102 f.; vgl. 115 S. 96, in Anm. 5 > o.S. 49 ff. S. 131, in Anm. 4 > o.S. 49 ff. ; Erscheinungsbild und Ursachen der spätrepublikanischen Krise gelten gerade nach den fruchtbaren Bemühungen der Forschung in den letzten Jahrzehnten als hinreichend reflektiert; in den seltensten Fällen jedoch ist das Sakralwesen in die Betrachtungen einbezogen worden. Die Kultgepflogenheiten der Römer zu dokumentieren, blieb weitgehend Domäne der Religionshistoriker, die sich der Aufgabe in aller Breite und mit geduldiger Hinwendung zum Detail gewidmet haben, so daß auch hier nahezu alle Fragen beantwortet scheinen; bei diesem Ansatz jedoch ist selbst bei zeitlichen Differenzierungen die Bezugnahme auf einhergehende politische Erscheinungen in der Regel vernachlässigt worden. Eine solchermaßen getrennte Betrachtungsweise spiegelt den heutigen Stellenwert von Religion in Staat und Gesellschaft wider, entspricht aber nicht der Auffassung der zu behandelnden historischen Zeit. Aus allen vorliegenden Quellen geht hervor, daß den Römern die Einheit von Staat und Religion eine Selbstverständlichkeit war. Unter Zugrundelegung der Ergebnisse der genannten Forschungsrichtungen und mit dem Augenmerk auf den Interdependenzmerkmalen soll es deshalb im folgenden darum gehen, den religiösen Faktor in Darstellung und Analyse der Krise einzubringen. Im ersten Teil der Untersuchung dient hierzu die ausführliche Beschäftigung mit Ciceros de domo sua. Eine Gesamtinterpretation ist dabei nicht allein deshalb angestrebt, weil die Rede bisher nicht allzu häufig behandelt wurde. Wie an kaum einer anderen Quelle läßt sich an ihr exemplarisch verdeutlichen, wie stark die politische Öffentlichkeit sich auch sakral definierte, in welchem organisatorischen Rahmen dies Ausdruck fand und wie im konkreten parteipolitischen Streitfall Nutzen daraus gezogen werden konnte. In seiner weitgehend politisch geprägten Argumentation angesichts einer zu nächst rein sakralrechtlichen Thematik gewährt Cicero darüber hinaus Ein blicke in den regulativen Umgang mit Tendenzen, die für die res publica über den vorliegenden Einzelfall hinaus problematisch erschienen. Um die auf diversen Ebenen bestehenden Zusammengehörigkeiten besser verdeutlichen zu können, erwies es sich gelegentlich als notwendig, entgegen den Vorgaben der Quelle Erscheinungen des politischen und des sakralen Bereichs zu unterscheiden und zunächst voneinander getrennt aufzuzeigen, wenn dies auch die Darstellung erschwert hat. Im erweiterten Rahmen des zweiten Teils der Arbeit werden alle politisch relevanten sakralrechtlichen Vorgaben aufgegriffen, um die Handhabung kultischer Mittel in den Phasen politischer Auseinandersetzungen bis zum Ende der Republik zu verfolgen und ihre entsprechende Bedeutung zu bestimmen. Ebenso geht es darum, den Zustand der traditionellen Staatsreligion selbst zu kennzeichnen; hierzu werden auch die Priestertümer in die Untersuchung einbezogen. In der Einordnung aller Ergebnisse wird abschließend nach dem Stellenwert des religiösen Wandels im Gesamtzusammenhang der Krise und nach den Möglichkeiten der Problembewältigung gefragt.

Now distributed by Brill for The Chinese University Press. Seven, diverse papers, written by ancient and medieval historians, are collected in this volume. These papers were presented at the academic conference "Politics and Religion in Ancient and Medieval Europe and Asia", organized by the Department of History and New Asia College of The Chinese University of Hong Kong in March 1996. Although the papers vary widely in the region and time-span of coverage - from ancient Egypt, the early Roman Empire, Norman England, to medieval China, they have in common their concern about the relationship between politics and different religions - Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism and others - in ancient and medieval Europe and Asia, and the respective intellectual and cultural interactions. Professor Mu-chou Poo in his paper explores the ancient Egyptian attitudes toward foreigners and foreign culture as an effort to understand Egyptian culture from a new perspective, and as a preliminary attempt to probe into the issues concerning the nature of ancient ethnicity and cultural consciousness. Professor Yen-zen Tsai's paper looks into the way the early Roman Empire treated mystery cults under its rule. Professor Ming-chiu Lai discusses the impact of a Buddhist ritual on Chinese religious culture between the second and sixth centuries. Professor Chi-tim Lai in his paper argues that some Taoist teachings advocated a new world order, but they were not the real force that provoked the rebellions during the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Professor Puay-peng Ho exhibits the political meanings of the imperial buildings in the Tang period and sheds light on the research about legitimacy in medieval China. Professor Warren Hollister's paper, which is also the keynote speech, points out that the high culture of twelfth century western Europe was largely the product of monastery. Finally, Professor Frederick Hok-ming Cheung examines the role of the Church in Anglo-Norman politics. The book will furnish a basis for further investigation on politics and religion in the ancient and medieval world, and inspire scholarly inquiries into the comparative dimensions of these important historical phenomena. This volume is distributed by Brill for The Chinese University Press

The author undertakes the problem of the identity of Western civilization in the light of a correlation between politics and religion. First, he traces the theoretical debates about the mutual correspondence of politics and religion in ancient Greece. Following two extreme errors depicted by Sophocles in his "Antigone," and by Plato in his "Apology of Socrates," he infers that the "Golden Mean" is necessary in resolving the problem of politics and religion. Then, he examines the underlying errors put forward in the history. His investigations show the erroneousness of endowing either politics or religion with sovereign status in culture. There is always a conflict between politics and religion unless man regains his own sovereignty from them. Ultimately the author arrives at the conclusion that the "Golden Mean" correlating politics and religion distinctly strengthens the identity of the Western Civilization, and consists in respecting all real and universal parameters of human person life, such as cognition, freedom (and responsibility), love, agency in law, ontological sovereignty, and religious dignity. ; Paweł Tarasiewicz

Since the overwhelming electoral victory of Algeria's main Islamist party, the Front Islamique du Salut (FIS), in 1990 and 1991, the annulment of the elections by the Algerian army in 1992, and a decade of apparently random killings that followed throughout the country, religion has been at stake in most contemporary debates on Algeria. Algeria has thereby entered the field of larger debates within the Western world about radical Islam, the rise of religion, the rejection of "Western models," and other expressions of the putative "clash of civilizations." At the same time, relatively little has been said about what "Islam" actually means in the Algerian context, even by more perspicacious authors and analysts who are keen to stress the economic and social causes for the success of political Islam in Algeria (e.g., Burgat 1988; 1995; Charef 1994; Martinez 1998). This is not to say that the variety of religious practices in Algeria has attracted no attention from researchers. Rather, it means that those writers who focus on 'local' religion, such as Andezian (1993; 2001) and Hadibi (1999; 2002), tend to produce local accounts of the veneration of saints and pilgrimages, without referring to broader cultural dynamics and political struggles, and without attempting to link their findings in more than superficial ways to the emergence of modern Islamism.

Spirit Power explores the manifestation of the American Century in Korean history with a focus on religious culture. It looks back on the encounter with American missionary power from the late nineteenth century, and the long political struggles against the country's indigenous popular religious heritage during the colonial and postcolonial eras. The book brings an anthropology of religion into the field of Cold War history. In particular, it investigates how Korea's shamanism has assimilated symbolic properties of American power into its realm of ritual efficacy in the form of the spirit of General Douglas MacArthur. The book considers this process in dialog with the work of Yim Suk-jay, a prominent Korean anthropologist who saw that a radically cosmopolitan and democratic world vision is embedded in Korea's enduring shamanism tradition