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"This book offers an academically rigorous examination of the biological, psychological, social and ecclesiastical processes that allowed sexual abuse in the Catholic Church to happen and then be covered up. The collected essays provide a means to better assess systemic wrongdoing in religious institutions, so that they can be more effectively held to account. An international team of contributors apply a necessarily multi-disciplinary approach to this difficult subject. Chapters look closely at the sexual abuse of minors by Roman Catholic clerics, explaining the complexity of this issue, which cannot be reduced to simple misconduct, sexual deviation, or a management failure alone. The book will help the reader to better understand the social, organizational, and cultural processes in the Church over recent decades, as well as the intricate world of beliefs, moral rules, and behaviours. It concludes with some strategies for change at the individual and corporate levels that will better ensure safeguarding within the Catholic Church and its affiliate institutions. This multifaceted study gives a nuanced analysis of this huge organizational failure and offers recommendations for effective ways of preventing it in the future. As such, it will be of keen interest to scholars of Religious Studies, Sociology of Religion, Psychology, Psychiatry, Legal Studies, Ethics, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, History, and Theology"--

"The Orthodox Christian tradition has all too often been sidelined in conversations around contemporary religion. Despite being distinct from Protestantism and Catholicism in both theology and practice, it remains an underused setting for academic inquiry into current lived religious practice. This collection, therefore, seeks to redress this imbalance by investigating modern manifestations of Orthodox Christianity through an explicitly gender-sensitive gaze. By addressing attitudes to gender in this context, it fills major gaps in the literature on both religion and gender. Starting with the traditional teachings and discourses around gender in the Orthodox Church, the book moves on to demonstrate the diversity of responses to those narratives that can be found among Orthodox populations in Europe and North America. Using case studies from several countries, with both large and small Orthodox populations, contributors use an interdisciplinary approach to address how gender and religion interact in contexts such as, iconography, conversion, social activism and ecumenical relations, among others. From Greece and Russia to Finland and the USA, this volume sheds new light on the myriad ways in which gender is manifested, performed, and engaged within contemporary Orthodoxy. Furthermore, it also demonstrates that employing the analytical lens of gender enables new insights into Orthodox Christianity as a lived tradition. It will, therefore, be of great interest to scholars of both Religious Studies and Gender Studies"--

Part I: Australian wetland cultures. The swamp / Nandi Chinna ; Racecourse Lagoon, Uralla, New South Wales / John C. Ryan ; Introduction to Australian wetland cultures: thinking about (and with) swamps / John C. Ryan and Li Chen ; Rainbow serpent anthropology, or Rainbow spirit theology, or Swamp serpent sacrality and marsh monster maternity? / Rod Giblett ; Artist and swamp: wetlands in Australian painting and photography / Rod Giblett ; Poet and swamp: wetlands in Australian verse / John C. Ryan ; Plant and swamp: the biocultural histories of five Australian hydrophytes / John C. Ryan -- Part II: Western Australian wetland cultures. Beeliar (December 6, 2016) / Nandi Chinna ; Three wetland poems (dedicated to J.P. Quinton) / John Kinsella: Poem for the gathering ; The trees alongside Bibra Drive ; Resisting from within the Green Tent at Bibra Drive, Beeliar (for James) ; Environmental activism and wetlands conservation in western Australia / Philip Jennings ; Where Fanny Balbuk walked: re-imagining Perth's wetlands / John C. Ryan, Danielle Brady, and Christopher Kueh ; The cultural significance of wetlands: Perth's lost swamps to the Beeliar Wetlands / Danielle Brady and Jeffrey Murray ; Swamp-philia and paludal heroism: the passion of wetland conservationists in Australia and elsewhere / John C. Ryan and Li Chen ; Power of deluge / Glen Phillips -- Epilogue: Twenty-five years of wetland studies in the humanities / Rod Giblett.

"Today, as we confront an unprecedented environmental crisis of our own making, it is more urgent than ever to consider the notion of nature and our place within it. This book brings together essays that individually and as a whole present a detailed and rigorous multidisciplinary exploration of the concept of nature and its wider ethical and political implications. A distinguished list of scholars take up a broad range of questions regarding the relations between the human subject and its natural environment: when and how the concept of nature gave way to the concept of natural resources; the genealogy of the concept of nature through political economy, theology, and modern science; the idea of the Anthropocene; the prospects for green growth; and the deep alienation of human beings in the modern period from both nature and each other. By engaging with a wide range of scholarship, they ultimately converge on a common outlook that is both capacious and original. The essays together present a revaluation of the natural world that seeks to reshape political and ethical ideals and practice with a view to addressing some of the fundamental concerns of our time. Nature and Value features widely known scholars in a broad swath of disciplines, ranging from philosophy, politics, and political economy to geology, law, literature, and psychology"--

"'Secularization' sounds simple, a decline in the power of religion. Yet, the history of the term is controversial and multi-faceted; it has been useful to both religious believers and non-believers and has been deployed by scholars to make sense of a variety of aspects of cultural and social change. This book will introduce the reader to this variety and show how secularization bears on the contemporary politics of religion. Secularization addresses the sociological classics' ambivalent accounts of the future of religion, later and more robust sociological claims about religious decline, and the most influential philosophical secularization thesis, which says that the dominant ideas of modern thought are in fact religious ones in a secularized form. The book outlines some shortcomings of these accounts in the light of historical inquiry and comparative sociology; examines claims that some religions are 'resistant to secularization'; and analyses controversies in the politics of religion, in particular over the relationship between Christianity and Islam and over the implicitly religious character of some modern political movements. By giving equal attention to both sociological and philosophical accounts of secularization, and equal weight to ideas, institutions and practices, this book introduces complicated ideas in a digestible format. It will appeal to students and scholars interested in making unusual connections within sociology, anthropology, philosophy, theology and political theory"--

This book investigates the substantial and growing contribution which African Independent and Pentecostal Churches are making to sustainable development in all its manifold forms. Moreover, this volume seeks to elucidate how these churches reshape the very notion of sustainable development and contribute to the decolonisation of development. Fostering both overarching and comparative perspectives, the book includes chapters on West Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, and Burkina Faso) and Southern Africa (Zimbabwe and South Africa). It aims to open up a subfield focused on African Initiated Christianity within the religion and development discourse, substantially broadening the scope of the existing literature. Written predominantly by scholars from the African continent, the chapters in this volume illuminate potentials and perspectives of African Initiated Christianity, combining theoretical contributions, essays by renowned church leaders, and case studies focusing on particular churches or regional contexts. While the contributions in this book focus on the African continent, the notion of development underlying the concept of the volume is deliberately wide and multidimensional, covering economic, social, ecological, political, and cultural dimensions. Therefore, the book will be useful for the community of scholars interested in religion and development as well as researchers within African studies, anthropology, development studies, political science, religious studies, sociology of religion, and theology. It will also be a key resource for development policymakers and practitioners.

Witness to Marvels traces the development of a unique genre of Sufi-inspired Bengali romances called pir kathas, whose protagonists and plots are wholly fictive. For five centuries these fabulations have parodied indigenous and Hindu textual traditions. Both mimicking and mocking, these parodies adopted a subjunctive tone, exploring a magical world of 'what-if'. They created an Islam-inflected space within a traditional Bengali cultural environment without trying to legislate what ideally 'should be' according to tropes common to Islamic history, theology, and law. The tales' discursive arena, the imaginaire, delineated the realm of possibility for how these tales might exercise the imagination to integrate Hindu and Islamic cosmologies. Tales insinuated themselves into locally relevant discourses through elaborate intertextual connections, subtly shifting presuppositions about the way the world works and what counts as religious authority. As Allah looked on from heaven, the tales routinely assigned Sufi saints, both pirs and bibis, to the pivotal role of avatar, the periodic descent of divinity, equating them to the Hindu god Narayan. Adopting a semiotic strategy to interpret these tales yields a bold new perspective on the subtle ways Islam assumed its distinctive form in Bengal and suggests how we need to reimagine conversion in this region.

Marianne Moyaert: Broadening the Scope of Interreligious Studies: Interrituality -- Mar Griera: Interreligious Events in the Public Space: Performing Togetherness in Times of Religious Pluralism -- Marianne Moyaert: Response to Mar Griera -- Nina Fischer: Religious Ritual, Injustice, and Resistance: Praying Politically in Israel/Palestine -- Mar Grier: Response to Nina Fischer -- Marianne Moyaert: Scriptural Reasoning as a Ritualized Practice -- Elisabeth Arweck: Response to Marianne Moyaert -- Jackie Feldman: Christian Holy Land Pilgrimage as an Interreligious Encounter -- Nina Fischer: Response to Jackie Feldman -- Dionigi Albera: Ritual Mixing and Interrituality at Marian Shrines -- Jackie Feldman: Response to Dionigi Albera -- James W. Farwell: Taking the Liturgical Turn in Comparative Theology: Monastic Interreligious Dialogue as a Supporting Case -- Joris GeldhofL Response to James W. Farewell -- Alana Vincent: Rituals of Reconciliation? How Consideration of Ritual can Inform Readings of Catholic-Jewish Dialogue after the Holocaust -- Mark Godin: Response to Alana Vincent -- Mark Godin: Reversals and Reconstructions: The Place of Inter-religious Rituals of Reconciliation in Forming a new Relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians -- Alana Vincent: Response to Mark Godin -- Bram Colijn: Interrituality in Contemporary China as a Field of Tension Between Abstention and Polytropy -- James Farwell: Response to Bram Colijin -- Elisabeth Arweck: The Role of Ritual in Mixed-Faith Families -- Bram Colijn: Response to Elisabeth Arweck -- Kevin Schilbrack: A Philosophical Analysis of Interrituality

Preface: What distinguishes this book from others in the field -- Introduction: how studying Islam can help make us better Christians -- The world into which Muhammad was born- pagan Arabia- and its contacts with the Jewish and Christian faiths -- Muhammad and the Koran -- Those who sell their souls to God: Violence and "the path of Allah" -- Depictions of Jews and Christians in the Koran -- Speech from the cradle, birds made from clay: Christ in the Koran -- "But a likeness was made to appear to them": The enigma of Christ's crucifixion in the Koran -- "Wherever the sun set, there he would halt and pray till dawn": Jesus in the ascetic and Sufi mystical traditions -- The true cross taken captive: Christian-Muslim relations in the age of the crusades -- Muslim secarianism and Sunni-Shia competition for the leadership of global Islam -- Weakness and suffering as ungodlike: Islamic christology and anti-christian polemics among Muslim writers from the eleventh century to the twenty-first -- The risen Christ still bears the marks of the cross: Thoughts on kenotic theology in response to anti-Christian Muslim polemics -- Christian survival in Muslim societies today: Egypt, Yemen, Pakistan -- Islam, Christianity, and pre-Islamic traditions: Pluralism versus intolerance in the Indonesian archipelago -- Concluding thoughts: Confronting Da'wah- and promising the truth of Christ crucified.

Die Untersuchung zu Carl Schmitts Intention in seinem politischen Denken steht – mit methodischem Bezug auf die Cambridge School – im Mittelpunkt der vorliegenden Forschungsarbeit. Die Arbeit strukturiert Schmitts Gedankengut in die vier Kategorien Politische Philosophie, Politische Theologie, Staatswissenschaft und Internationale Beziehungen. Die Arbeit stellt die These auf, dass Schmitt als ein Vorläufer der Globalisierungskritiker gesehen werden kann, welcher die Entmachtung der Staatssouveränität in der globalen Welt hinterfragt. Mit dem Begriff Globalisierung ist in diesem Zusammenhang die Demokratisierung des Rechtsverfahrens in der Innenpolitik und die Verrechtlichung des Naturzustandes zwischen den Staaten in der Außenpolitik gemeint, aus der im Habermasschen Sinne die Weltgesellschaft entsteht. »Globalization and the Political« The focus of this research is the investigation of Carl Schmitt's intention in his political ideas. This work structures Schmitt's ideas into four categories – namely, political philosophy, political theology, jurisprudence, and international relations – in order that Schmitt's intention in his works, out of which a coherent pattern does not necessarily arise, might be crystallized. This thesis argues that Schmitt was a forerunner of globalization critics. Die Untersuchung Carl Schmitts Intention im Kontext seines politischen Denkens steht im Mittelpunkt der vorliegenden Forschungsarbeit. Die Arbeit strukturiert Schmitts Denken in die vier Kategorien Politische Philosophie, Politische Theologie, Staatswissenschaft und Internationale Beziehungen. Dabei stellt die Arbeit die These auf, dass Schmitt als ein Vorläufer der Globalisierungskritiker gesehen werden kann. Seyed Alireza Mousavi, geboren im Iran, studierte Politikwissenschaft in seiner Heimat, wo er sein Bachelor- und Masterstudium abschloss. Er promovierte an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Mousavi hat bei der ersten Ausgabe des Journals Carl-Schmitt-Studien mitgewirkt, in der sein Aufsatz mit dem Titel »Staatsbewusstsein und schiitischer Islam: Die Analyse Ayatollah Ruhollah Chomeinis politischer Gedanken im Kontext von Carl Schmitts Konzeptionen« veröffentlicht wurde. Er unterrichtete am Institut für Politikwissenschaft an der Universität Jena im Sommersemester 2015 »Politische Philosophie im schiitischen Islam« und im Wintersemester 2016 »Die Politische Theorie von Carl Schmitt«.

"Contents" -- "Notes on Contributors" -- "1: What Is 'Hayek'?" -- " 'The Victory of Fascism in a Number of Countries Is Only an Episode in the Long History of Struggles over the Problem of Property.'" -- " Austrian 'Logic' and Human Rights Abuses" -- " Volume Overview" -- " Notes" -- "Bibliography" -- "2: Faith-Based Economics" -- " The George Mason Recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences" -- " 'Financial Considerations'" -- " 'Get Rid of the Bums'" -- " 'Will Do' for What?" -- " 'Defend Family Values'" -- " Notes" -- "Bibliography" -- "3: Hayek, Mises, and the Iron Rule of Unintended Consequences" -- " Introduction1" -- " An American Creed" -- " Fusion Energy" -- " God, 'Free' Markets, and 'The Right to Work'" -- " The John Birch Society" -- " The 'Right to Work' Movement" -- " Building a Network" -- " Collectivism, Colonialism, and 'Red Menace' Communism" -- " Satan, Roosevelt, and LaHaye" -- " Christian Reconstructionism and Neofascism" -- " Liberal Fascism and Tea Parties" -- " Conclusions" -- " Notes" -- "References" -- "4: Accelerating the Climate of Hate: The Austrian School of Economics, Hayek, and 'The New Hate'" -- " Notes" -- "Bibliography" -- "5: Christian Reconstructionism and the Austrian School of Economics" -- " Introduction" -- " Rushdoony and the Theology of Christian Reconstructionism" -- " An Overview of Christian Reconstruction" -- " Reconstructionism and Anti-statism" -- " Austrian Parasites" -- " The Volker Fund" -- " The Origins of the Volker Fund" -- " The Center for American Studies" -- " Religion and the Collapse of the Volker Fund" -- " Gary North and Christian Economics" -- " Before Christian Economics" -- " An Overview of Christian Economics" -- " Gold Bugs" -- " Y2K and Beyond" -- " Conclusion" -- " Notes

Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The World in Times of Globality -- 1.1 -- 1.2 -- 1.3 -- References -- Chapter 2: Third World War: The Enemies of the Global Society -- 2.1 The Global Turn of War and Violence -- 2.2 Decolonization of the Post-Colonial Era -- 2.3 Past Wars and Current Consequences -- 2.4 The West: Enemies, Which Enemies? -- References -- Chapter 3: Spaces and Spheres -- 3.1 Land Animals and Sea Animals -- 3.2 Turning Spaces into Spheres -- 3.3 Lines of Conflict -- 3.4 Norm-Based Spheres Versus Unstructured Spaces -- References -- Chapter 4: Borders and Orders -- 4.1 Outside In: Borders as Stabilizer -- 4.2 Inside Out: Less Freedom Without Borders -- 4.3 Freedom, Order, Pluralism: But Why Violence? -- 4.4 External Influence on Modernization Revisited -- References -- Chapter 5: People and Peoples -- 5.1 ``For Staying Is Nowhere´´ -- 5.2 Popular Sovereignty in a Global World -- 5.3 Clashing Identities -- 5.4 Rights, Duties and the Responsibility to Protect -- References -- Chapter 6: Sources and Resources -- 6.1 Ideas Contested and Ideologies Renewed -- 6.2 Violence in Religion -- 6.3 It´s the Economy, Stupid -- 6.4 Talents and Demographic Bubbles -- References -- Chapter 7: A New World Order: The Global Society and Its Friends -- 7.1 Humanizing Geopolitics -- 7.2 The New Global Social Question -- 7.3 Non-violent Geo-Theology and Other Ideas -- 7.4 Leadership and Human Order -- References -- Chapter 8: Outlook: Prospects and Uncertainties -- 8.1 -- 8.2 -- 8.3 -- 8.4 -- References

Teilen (können) ist das neue Haben (wollen)? So scheint es bisweilen, wenn man die immer größer werdende Zahl von Veröffentlichungen zur Sharing Economy betrachtet. Nicht wenige sprechen bereits von einer weiteren industriellen Revolution, ermöglicht durch die fortschreitende Digitalisierung der Ökonomie und nicht zuletzt durch das Internet. Der Grundgedanke ist bestechend: Durch das Internet sind Informationen über die temporäre Verfügbarkeit von Gütern schier unbegrenzt und sehr kostengünstig verfügbar, bei digitalen Gütern unterliegt sogar deren Vermehrung dieser Logik. Lösen also Tauschen und Teilen den exklusiven Eigentumsanspruch ab? Wird vielleicht sogar der lang gehegte Traum von einer Welt wahr, in der Besitztümer nicht nur einigen wenigen, sondern vielen – vielleicht nahezu allen – Menschen zur Verfügung stehen? Kann damit eines Tages sogar das Besitzstreben überholt sein, das von vielen heftig kritisiert, von anderen dagegen seit Adam Smith als ethisch vorzugswürdig angesehen wird? Oder werden hier nur altbekannte ökonomische Erkenntnisse in neuer Verpackung angeboten? Der vorliegende Sammelband geht diesen und weiteren kontrovers diskutierten Fragen aus verschiedenen Fachperspektiven nach. / »The Digital Sharing Economy« -- Is it true that sharing is about to be the new having? May societies even be able to overcome the divide between the ›haves‹ and the ›have nots‹ sometime? When looking at the new, internet-based markets of the sharing economy, we may come to this conclusion. Or will the dream of a new ›world of sharing‹ turn out to be just that: a dream, ignorant of the insights of well-established economic theories or of the very fact that virtually all relevant companies in these industries have been run by hard-core capitalists so far? The contributors to this volume address several highly contested issues. They tackle each of them from three different academic perspectives, e.g. economics, philosophy, and theology.

"During and after the Second World War, public intellectuals in Britain and the United States grappled with concerns about the future of democracy, the prospects of liberty, and the decline of the imperial system. Without using the term 'globalization,' they identified a shift toward technological, economic, cultural, and political interconnectedness and developed a 'globalist' ideology to reflect this new postwar reality. The Emergence of Globalism examines the competing visions of world order that shaped these debates and led to the development of globalism as a modern political concept. Shedding critical light on this neglected chapter in the history of political thought, Or Rosenboim describes how a transnational network of globalist thinkers emerged from the traumas of war and expatriation in the 1940s and how their ideas drew widely from political philosophy, geopolitics, economics, imperial thought, constitutional law, theology, and philosophy of science. She presents compelling portraits of Raymond Aron, Owen Lattimore, Lionel Robbins, Barbara Wootton, Friedrich Hayek, Lionel Curtis, Richard McKeon, Michael Polanyi, Lewis Mumford, Jacques Maritain, Reinhold Niebuhr, H. G. Wells, and others. Rosenboim shows how the globalist debate they embarked on sought to balance the tensions between a growing recognition of pluralism on the one hand and an appreciation of the unity of humankind on the other."--Dust jacket

"A fresh and holistic treatment of a long-standing social experiment born of revival fervor and communitarian enthusiasm. The Oneida Community of upstate New York was dedicated to living as one family and to the sharing of all property, work, and love. Anthony Wonderley is a sensitive guide to the things and settings of Oneida life from its basis in John H. Noyes's complicated theology, through experiments in free love and gender equality, to the moment when the commune transformed itself into an industrial enterprise based on the production of silverware. Rather than drawing a sharp boundary between spiritual concerns and worldly matters, Wonderley argues that commune and company together comprise a century-long narrative of economic success, innovative thinking, and abiding concern for the welfare of others. Oneida Utopia seamlessly combines the evidence of social life and intellectual endeavor with the testimony of built environment and material culture. Wonderley shares with readers his intimate knowledge of evidence from the Oneida Community: maps and photographs, quilts and furniture, domestic objects and industrial products, and the biggest artifact of all, their communal home. Wonderley also takes a novel approach to the thought of the commune's founder, examining individually and in context Noyes's reactions to interests and passions of the day, including revivalism, millennialism, utopianism, and spiritualism"--