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The internet has not as yet transformed the majority of Asian nations into open, liberal and democratic societies. Although it has had a significant impact, particularly on business, advertising expenditures, gaming, ICQs and other such aspects of consumption and entertainment, and in some parts of Asia (particularly in well‐networked nations like Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan and others), its development and impact have been uneven, predictably tending to follow the existing patterns of socio‐economic development. One area which has not received much scholarly attention is the internet and religion, which is significant in that structural characteristics and trends appear to be privileging the phenomenon of global Christianity, at the cost of the traditional religions such as Hinduism, Islam and Buddhism which have dominated Asian societies. The tendency for internet and evangelical Christian cultures to converge in a number of key Asian nations (and predictably, for both to be absent in other nations at the opposite end of the techno‐cultural spectrum) results in an alternative mapping and conceptualization of Asia in which communicatively and culturally 'open' societies are contrasted with 'closed' ones, a distinction which is the more pronounced because it is corroborated by several cultural parameters (the history of the nation's interaction with foreign powers in the age of European imperialism, economic development, communications policies and infrastructures, ethnicity, religious tolerance, and so on). This mapping re‐writes many received groupings and associations of Asian nations in terms of ethnicity, religion and political affiliations.Internet n'a pas encore changé la majorité des nations asiatiques en sociétés démocratiques, libérales et ouvertes. Il a eu une forte incidence, notamment au plan affaires, dépenses publicitaires, jeux, messageries instantanées (ICQ) et autres aspects liés à la consommation et aux loisirs, ainsi que dans certaines régions d'Asie (en particulier dans les nations dotées de réseaux: Singapour, Japon, Corée du Sud, Hong‐Kong, Malaisie, Taiwan, etc.). Pourtant, son développement a été irrégulier suivant, comme on pouvait s'y attendre, les schémas existants d'expansion socio‐économique. Les intellectuels se sont peu attachés à un domaine, à savoir internet et la religion, alors qu'il est significatif puisque tendances et caractéristiques culturelles semblent privilégier le Christianisme mondialisé, aux dépens des religions traditionnelles tels l'Hindouisme, l'Islam et le Bouddhisme qui ont dominé les sociétés asiatiques. La tendance à la convergence d'internet et des cultures chrétiennes évangéliques vers plusieurs nations asiatiques cruciales (et, de manière prévisible, à leur absence d'autres nations situées à l'autre extrémité du spectre techno‐culturel) produit une cartographie et une conceptualisation alternatives de l'asie où des sociétés 'ouvertes' au plan communications et culture sont mises en opposition avec des sociétés 'fermées', distinction particulièrement prononcée car elle correspond à plusieurs paramètres culturels (histoire nationale de l'interaction avec des puissances étrangères à l'époque de l'impérialisme européen, développement économique, politiques et infrastructures de communications, ethnicité, tolérance religieuse, entre autres). Cette cartographie récrit nombre des regroupements et associations établis de nations asiatiques en termes d'ethnicité, de religion et d'affiliations politiques.

This article examines representations of religion on an ordinary day in British newspapers, 17 September in 2013, 2014 and 2015, as part of an international comparative study. Taking as its sample The Times, the Metro and a local newspaper, the Manchester Evening News, the study used both quantitative and qualitative methods to examine global, national and regional stories about conventional and common religion and the secular sacred. In a transitional period, in the run up to the EU referendum (2016) and before populism became more visible in the mainstream, the findings demonstrate the importance of identity politics in the representation of religion and diversity in UK news. Within a backdrop of embedded Christianity and through an excessive focus on Islam, debates about religion often explore or seek to reinforce ideas of Britishness, whether that be aligned to a traditional Christian heritage, secular liberalism or, an 'acceptable' version of integrated diversity.

A central part of what is considered as politically hegemonic results from civilizatory and colonial projects outside Europe. In this context, the figure of the Jew has an ambivalent position. On the one hand, it is a central figure of the so-called Judeo-Christian civilization. On the other hand, Jews more often appear to be the victims of this project rather than its perpetrators, hence making the notion of Judeo-Christianity the fruit of antisemitism. This article will argue that Boyarin and Slabodsky present an interesting approach to this dilemma while exploring the way Jewish identity could serve as a counter hegemonic political position.

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Islam, Christianity, and Judaism share several common features, including their historical origins in the prophet Abraham, their belief in a single divine being, and their modern global expanse. Yet it is the seeming closeness of these ""Abrahamic"" religions that draws attention to the real or imagined differences between them. This volume examines Abrahamic cultures as minority groups in societies which may be majority Muslim, Christian, or Jewish, or self-consciously secular. The focus is on the relationships between these religious identities in global Diaspora, where all of them are confr

Introduction : Monotheism and ethics : a worthy and timely topic / Y. Tzvi Langermann -- Monotheism and ethics / Lenn E. Goodman -- Approaching distinctiveness : some preliminary considerations and data / William Scott Green -- Religion and morality / William J. Wainwright -- Religious symbolism and moral distinctiveness / Eugene Garver -- Monotheism as a continuing ethical challenge to Jews / Menachen Kellner -- Serving God and moral life / Joseph Boyle -- The ethics of creation : biblical and post-metaphysical views / Michael Fagenblat -- Ibn Miskawayh's Tartīb al-Saʻādāt (the order of happiness) / Roxanne D. Marcotte -- Al-Ghazālī's ethical egoism and divine will / Aladdin M. Yaqub -- One ethic for three faiths / Y. Tzvi Langermann -- Finding common ground among monotheists in bioethics / Aaron L. Mackler -- Protestant bioethics and the new reproductive technologies / Cynthia B. Cohen -- The ethics of Nazīh Abū ʻAfash, a self-styled "Christian atheist" / Basilius Bawardi -- Common ground between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam : an Islamic view of the monotheistic path to morality / Abbas Hamdani.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2. The End of Headhunting and the Globalizing Mission of Evangelical Christianity in Borneo -- Chapter 3. The Fall of Adat Pu'un and the Politics of Church Making -- Chapter 4. The Spirit Went Upriver—Disenchanted Adat and the Politics of "Culture" -- Chapter 5. Interdenominational Relations, Hierarchy and Schism -- Chapter 6.Conclusion.

This study aims to determine the effect of industrial sector exports, foreign investment in the industrial sector and inflation on Indonesia Gross Domestic Product in 1983-2017. The data used are industrial sector export data, foreign investment in the industrial sector, inflation of Indonesia's economic growth in 1983-2017 with multiple linear regression analysis (OLS) methods. The analysis shows that the export of the industrial sector has a positive and significant effect on Indonesia's Gross Domestic Product, the foreign investment of the industrial sector has a negative and significant effect on Indonesia's Gross Domestic Product. Inflation has a negative and significant effect on Indonesia's Gross Domestic Product. Thus, exports from the industrial sector have a positive and significant effect on economic growth, foreign investment in the industrial sector and inflation have a negative and significant effect on Indonesia's economic growth from 1983-2017. This research suggests that the government works harder to increase industrial sector exports, reduce inflation and also continue to establish good cooperation with international trade partners. Monitor and attract foreign investment in the industrial sector so that the Indonesian industrial sector is able to compete in the midst of the development and improvement of industrial developed countries. Licensing arrangements must be made easier, so that foreign investment in the industrial sector quickly arrives in the field so as to open up new industrial land thereby absorbing labor and increasing production in the industrial sector so that it will be able to increase Indonesia's economic growth.

In Christianity and the Nation-State, Gary Chartier provocatively offers readers unexpected critical distance from some familiar ways of understanding, justifying, and navigating existing political arrangements. People in multiple societies are posing important questions about the authority and functions of the contemporary nation-state and about potential alternatives to this seemingly inescapable institution. Chartier seeks to develop a distinctive theological response to the conditions prompting these questions. Affirming liberalism and cosmopolitanism, he reflects critically on nationalism, localism, religious establishment, and theological accounts of political authority. He highlights links between sin and state power and underscores deficiencies in democratic rhetoric and theory. He rejects the idea of a global government, advocating a nonterritorial alternative he labels 'radical consociationalism. Moreover, he presents concrete suggestions for life under the rule of the state.

Cover ; Contents; Introduction.; Training in Christianity.; An Edifying Discourse About the Woman Who was a Sinner; Index; Contents; 'Come Hither, all ye That Labour and are Heavy Laden, I Will Give You Rest. 'For Revival and Increase of Inwardness. ; Part I; Part II 'Blessed is He Whosoever Is Not Offended in Me.' A Biblical Exposition and a Christian Definition of Concepts. ; Part III From On High He Will Draw All Men Unto Himself Seven Christian Expositions

This thesis explores the impact of Christianity on the landscape in Ireland from the conversion period to the coming of the Anglo-Normans. The premise is that ecclesiastical and secular settlement formed a cohesive whole which characterised the societal organisation of early medieval Ireland. The matter of the thesis is to isolate some of the agents of cohesion to see was this homogenous or did it vary in different areas. One of these agents was the ownership of land and the thesis undertakes to identify ecclesiastical landholding and examine the manner of settlement on it. A corollary is to explore the contribution of the genealogical link between kin-group, founding saint and territory to the construction of local identities. This necessitated a narrow focus; thus small study areas were chosen, which approximated to early medieval kingdoms in North Louth, Rathdown, Co Dublin and Ross, Co Cork. A multidisciplinary approach was taken using both archaeological and documentary evidence. The thesis found ecclesiastical sites were at the same density through the study areas, but there were considerable regional variations in related secular settlement. Ecclesiastical estates were identified in the three study areas and common settlement patterns were found in two of them. Settlement in all areas indicated the foundation of minor churches by local groups. Ecclesiastical sites were found to be integral to kin-group identity and status, but the manner in which each group negotiated this, was very different. Finally the thesis examined material evidence for a change from diffused to concentrated power in the political organisation of Irish society, a process entwined with developments of the Viking Age. This centralisation of power and associated re-formation of identity was still often mediated through the ecclesiastical sphere but the thesis demonstrates diversity in the materialising of the mediation.