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Explores religion's presence and contradictory role in public life, especially in politics, throughout US history, despite the founders' professed secularism and the constitutional separation of church and state, religion in the 2000 presidential campaign, and President George W. Bush's faith-based initiative. Included in a collection of articles under the overall title "After the election: Plan B".

Countless observers, especially in Europe, tend to view the politics of George W. Bush as being strongly inspired by Christian "fundamentalism" & powered by "missionary" zeal. This article examines the justice of such an assessment. It comes to a different conclusion, arguing that in his speeches, the current President of the United States mostly uses "civil religious" metaphors & images, but rarely those of Christian denominations; that he only adopts the domestic policy agenda of his party's Christian Right wing where this seems expedient on electoral grounds; & that his foreign policy is based on American security interests, & not on any "fundamentalist" dogmas. 37 References. Adapted from the source document.

Mullan reviews 'Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions: The Mind of Samuel Rutherford' by John Coffey.

The religious and political history of late 17th and early 18th century England is typically written in terms of conflict and division. Focusing on provinvial towns Professor Miller reveals that, although town government was not at all democratic, there was participation, consultation, and negotiation

Bibliography: leaves 124-129. ; The concept of religion in South Africa has been distorted by religious and racial prejuidices. This problem is particularly evident in public schools South African schools have taught Christianity as the only authentic religion, in fact as the only truth. Black parents have not been given a choice of religion for their children. The white government has decided for them Based on the assumption that Christianity is the only legitimate religion, the state has suppressed African indigenous religion at every level of society, but especially in the schools. The thesis examines the indigenous beliefs and practices of the black people in South Africa which were suppressed by Western culture and Christianity. It reveals all the distortions about African Religion by the outside researchers in order to uproot the black people from their way of life so as to colonise them. As a result all the black children are taught to regard Christianity as a "Religion" and their own religion as "culture", the implication being that blacks had no religion until the white man came with Christianity. The thesis also investigates the feelings of the black people about recovering their indigenous religion by having it as a subject in schools. The results reveal that the majority of blacks never dissociated themselves with their religion. Although most are Christians in principle, deep down they practise their own religion. It has also been discovered that there are great lamentations amongst most blacks over the "loss" of some of the indigenous practices. Most have felt alienated from their heritage and identity. It is therefore the interest of the blacks in South Africa that African Religion be taught in schools.

Nach der Toterklärung des Autors in den 1960er-Jahren kam es in den 1990ern zu einer Wiederkehr des Autors. Der Beitrag führt in einen Sammelband ein, der am Beispiel ausgewählter Autoren die Rolle von Autorschaft im Spannungsverhältnis von Religion und Politik untersucht. Dabei wird gezeigt, wie politische Funktionen und religiöse Semantiken interagieren und ein Verständnis von postsouveräner Autorschaft konstituieren, das den Autor als Funktion seines Werks begreift. ; After the 'death of the author' in the 1960s, the 1990s have seen the 'return of the author'. The article is the introduction to an anthology of essays that investigates the role of literary authors in the interaction of religion and politics. It looks at how political functions and religious semantics collaborate and create a notion of post-sovereign authorship that sees the author as dependent on his/her work.

This new volume showcases the latest research into Muslim political participation both in terms of electoral politics and civil society initiatives. Muslims play a prominent role in British political life yet what do we actually know about the involvement of British Muslims beyond the existence of a handful of Muslim MPs? What is unique about political participation in Muslim communities? All the major parties actively seek to court a 'Muslim electorate' but does such a phenomenon exist? Despite the impact that Muslims have had on election campaigns and their roles in various political institut.

In 'One Family Under God', Grace Yukich draws on extensive field observation and interviews to reveal how immigration is changing religious activism in the U.S. With immigration raids sweeping the nation and widespread public hostility toward 'illegal' immigration, the New Sanctuary Movement emerged in 2007 as a religious force seeking to humanize the image of undocumented immigrants like Liliana