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Examining race, law, and religion in today's America, The Least of These highlights the power of these principles to both divide and unite, and promotes a new form of liberalism that incorporates the spiritual values long neglected by earlier progressive liberals. Relaunching the fundamental tenet of progressive liberalism - that a justly ordered society must protect the interests and promote opportunities for the least advantaged of its population - Anthony Cook argues for a revival of the progressive vision of American politics.

Ausgehend von einer "Rückkehr der Religion" in die geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung geben die Verfasser in dieser Einleitung einen Überblick über differente Theorieansätze und einzelwissenschaftliche Forschungszugänge als Ausgangsbedingung transdisziplinärer Religionsforschung. Sie charakterisieren ihren transdisziplinären Ansatz als eine auf den einzelwissenschaftlichen Komponenten aufbauende, integrativ an gesellschaftlich relevanten Problemfragen ausgerichtete gemeinsame Forschung unterschiedlicher Disziplinen und erläutern wissenschaftstheoretische wie handlungspraktische Herausforderungen eines solchen Ansatzes unter Rückgriff auf Balsiger und Mittelstraß. Die vorliegende Einleitung gibt abschließend einen Überblick über die Einzelbeiträge des Sammelbandes. (ICE2)

"The present work reexamines the importance of the Danish philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55). It argues that many of Kierkegaard's most controversial and influential ideas are more relevant than ever. Specifically, it shows how we can make good sense of ideas such as subjective truth, "the leap" into faith, and "the teleological suspension of the ethical." When properly understood, none of these ideas are as problematic as commentators have long assumed. This book shows that Kierkegaard offers a novel account of wholeheartedness that is relevant to discussions of personal identity, truth, ethics, and religion (particularly after Frankfurt, MacIntyre, C. Taylor, and Williams). Concluding Unscientific Postscript, notably, describes wholeheartedness as subjective truth, and despair as subjective untruth. This account involves an original, adverbial theory of truth in which agents, rather than propositions, are the basic truth-bearers (Watts 2018). For Kierkegaard, wholeheartedness requires living truly by having a coherent personal identity (something he also describes as "purity of heart"). Despair and doublemindedness, by contrast, involve an incoherent identity, which fails to be true to itself"--

Este artículo se propone traer a discusión el uso público de la religión a partir de las concepciones de Jürgen Habermas, quien defiende el reconocimiento y admisión de la religión como actor en la esfera pública y de sus manifestaciones sin haber sido traducidas. Ante la fragmentación de la sociedad, propone la necesidad urgente de procesos de aprendizaje complementarios entre las doctrinas religiosas y las imágenes del mundo, entre los ciudadanos religiosos y ciudadanos seculares. El filósofo alemán apunta al entendimiento de una sociedad postsecular que implica una tensión entre "estado secular" y "sociedad postsecular". Coloca en entredicho o en revisión la teoría de la secularización, que asoció la modernización con la individualización privatista de la religión y que en la medida en que las sociedades se modernizan auguraban la desaparición progresiva de las religiones en la esfera pública.

Preliminary Material /F. Yang and G. Lang -- Introduction. The Rising Social Scientific Study Of Religion In China /Graeme Lang and Fenggang Yang -- Chapter One. Thirty Years Of Religious Studies In China /He Guanghu -- Chapter Two. History As A Factor In The Social Scientific Study Of Chinese Religion /J. Gordon Melton -- Chapter Three. Explanations Of International Differences In Religion That May Apply To China /Daniel V.A. Olson -- Chapter Four. The Dilemma Of Pursuing Chinese Religious Studies Within The Framework Of Western Religious Theories /Fan Lizhu -- Chapter Five. Religion In China: Some Introductory Notes For The Intrepid Western Scholar /Eileen Barker -- Chapter Six. Local Ritual Traditions Of Southeast China: A Challenge To Definitions Of Religion And Theories Of Ritual /Kenneth Dean -- Chapter Seven. Contemporary Chinese Beliefs And Spiritual Pursuits /Victor Yuan -- Chapter Eight. Exploring The Relationship Between Religion And Ethnicity In China /He Qimin -- Chapter Nine. From Grassroots Association To Civil Society Organization: A Case Study Of The Hebei Province Dragon Tablet Fair /Gao Bingzhong and Ma Qiang -- Chapter Ten. On The Problem Of Developing A Mechanism For The Participation Of Religion In The Social Services Sector /Liu Peng -- Chapter Eleven. Religion And Environmentalism In Chinese Societies /Graeme Lang and Lu Yunfeng -- Chapter Twelve. Secular State And Religious Society In Mainland China And Taiwan /Richard Madsen -- Afterword /Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank -- Index /F. Yang and G. Lang.

West Virginia Politics and Government offers the only recent study of politics in the Mountain State. Combining new empirical information about political behavior with a close examination of the capacity of the state's government, this second edition is a comprehensive and pointed study of the ability of the state's government to respond to the needs of a largely rural and relatively low-income population. The authors discuss public demands on state government, the shaping of the political agenda by interest groups, elections and the role of political parties, and the influence of the federal.