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What does it mean to describe our society as secular? And what role might religion play in its evolution? Are religious considerations a necessary part of coherent speech about human dignity or human rights? Are religious communities properly accounted for in our talk of a "social contract"? "Recognizing Religion in a Secular Society" sets aside popular myths about secularism to probe these important questions from the perspectives of law, politics, religion, morality, and bioethics, reconfiguring the debate about religion and public life.

Der Kieler Politologe gibt angesichts weltweiter interkultureller Glaubenskonflikte eine systematische Übersicht über solcherart religiöse Manifestationen, die sich nicht nur auf Dauerkonflikte zwischen Juden und Arabern oder den US-Präventivkrieg im Irak beschränken. Dazu gehören die nicht geringeren Konflikte zwischen Islam und Hinduismus, die ebenso zu fundamentalistischen Auseinandersetzungen geführt haben wie jene zwischen buddhistischen Singhalesen und hinduistischen Tamilen (Sri Lanka): Die Macht der Religionen ist über fundamentalistisch orientierte Ausformungen zur bedeutsamen Komponente der Weltpolitik geworden. Der Autor ("Die politischen Systeme der Welt": BA 1/00) zeigt Entstehung und Konsolidierung dieser Machtverhältnisse anhand exemplarischer Länderstudien auf, um dann Chancen und Grenzen des interreligiösen Dialogs im Hinblick auf friedliche Koexistenz der Religionen zu prüfen. (2)

Ethiopia is an old society often confronted with new ideas and foreign values. As a result, social changes and modernisation were important contentious points especially in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some wanted change and progress at the expense of indigenous values, specifically cultural and political independence, while others opted for a more cautious approach. Inasmuch as Ethiopia's context was one in which the church and the state were accustomed to seeing themselves as two sides of the same coin, the discourse of modernisation had both a political and religious flavour to it. This article therefore aims to examine the volatile dynamics between religion (especially the Protestant churches of the 'southern peripheries') and the Marxist regime in modernising Ethiopia. Specifically, the article intends to explore how state-church relations transformed social thinking in Ethiopia. I begin by sketching the historical background and proceed to unravel the dilemma of modernisation. In the final part, I discuss how Protestantism contributed to modernising three aspects of social structure: the understanding of the human person, state-church relations and social organisation.

This book analyses the power that religion wields upon the minds of individuals and communities and explores the predominance of language in the actual practice of religion. Through an investigation of the diverse forms of religious language available — oral traditions, sacred texts, evangelical prose, and national rhetoric used by 'faith-insiders' such as missionaries, priests, or religious leaders who play the communicator's role between the sacred and the secular — the chapters in the volume reveal the dependence of religion upon language, demonstrating how religion draws strength from a past that is embedded in narratives, infusing the 'sacred' language with political power.A Language 'Clearly Understanded of the People':The Construction of an Anglo-Catholic Linguistic Identity 18502015Biblical Semiotics: The Language of SurvivalCultures of Sound: Lineages and Languages of Sutra Recitation in Goshirakawas JapanKaqchikel Spirituality in the shade of the Catholic DoctrineReclaiming the Sacred: Bengali Muslim Communitys Quest for a Jatiya IdentityReligion for Nation? Language Policy of the Churches in the Context of the Belarusian Nation-BuildingThe Translations of Buddhism, from Asia to the West: Shifting Languages, Adaptive Logics, AcculturationsThe Bdshshiyyas Tower of Babel: Cultural Diversity in a Transnational Sufi OrderThe Paradox of the Term Democracy in Arabic Discourse on the Islamic MovementsThe book combines broad theoretical and normative reflections in contexts of original, detailed and closely examined empirical case studies. Drawing upon resources across disciplines, the book will be of interest to scholars of religion and religious studies, linguistics, politics, cultural studies, history, sociology, and social anthropology.Voices, Texts and Contexts in Filipino Christianity Words Taken for Wonders: Conversion and Religious Authority among the Dalits of Colonial Chhattisgarh.