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From Toleration to Liberty: Religious Freedom as Concept and Constitutional Right -- Religious Wandering in French Romantic Culture -- Prodigal Sons and Daughters? Jewish Converts and Catholic Proselytism -- Family, Nation, and Freedom: Ivan Gagarin, the Swetchine Circle, and the Orthodox Road to Rome -- God and Liberty? Lamennais, Catholicism, and Freedom of Conscience -- Mysticism, Despair, and Progress: George Sand's Pursuit of Religious Liberty -- Philology and Freedom: Ernest Renan's Struggle with Catholicism.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Changing Rituals, Changing Worlds -- 2. "The Shrine Was Human Rights" -- 3. "Spirituality" as Feminist Third Choice -- 4. Self, Community, and Social Justice -- Conclusion -- Source Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

This book is drawn out of a 'Dialogue', held in Venice at the Cini Foundation in September 2010, aimed at exploring the relationship between ecology and theology. The meeting involved experts from different disciplines (theologians, anthropologists, ecologists, economists, philosophers, and historians), sharing the awareness that the gamut of passions mobilized by ecology so far has not reached the level or intensity required for the huge task facing humanity today concerning the fate of the Earth. Can religions help us tackle the ecological crisis we are now facing? Can we redefine our relationship with the Earth, giving spiritual depth to ecological issues? How to mobilize the notions, cosmologies and rituals characterizing some religious traditions without overlooking the conflicts underlying the ecological debate and the essential role of politics?

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Queer Religious Youth in Colliding Contexts -- 1 Contradictory Subjectivities? The Space of Research-Researcher-Researched Identities -- 2 Making Space at the (Queer) Academic Table? -- 3 Creative Scenes: Sounding Religious, Sounding Queer -- 4 Online Settings: Becoming and Believing -- 5 Making Space for Young Lesbians? Gendered Sites, Scripts and Sticking Points -- 6 Policy Spaces and Public Imaginations -- Bibliography -- Index.

Examining contestation and conflict management within holy cities, this book provides both an overview and a range of options available to those concerned with this increasingly urgent phenomenon. In cities in India, the Balkans and the Mediterranean, we can see examples where religion plays a dominant role in urban development and thus provides a platform for conflict. Powerful religious hierarchies, the generation of often unregulated revenues from donations and endowments, the presence of holy sites and the enactment of ritualistic activities in public spaces combine to create forms of conflicts which are, arguably, more intense and more intractable than other forms of conflicts in cities. The book develops a working definition of the urban dimension of religious conflicts so that the kinds of conflicts exhibited can be contextualised and studied in a more targeted manner. It draws together a series of case studies focusing on specific cities, the kinds of religious conflicts occurring in them and the international structures and mechanisms that have emerged to address such conflicts. Combining expertise from both academics and practitioners in the policy and military world, this interdisciplinary collection will be of particular relevance to scholars and students researching politics and religion, regional studies, geography and urban studies. It should also prove useful to policymakers in the military and other international organisations.

Vision and embodiment -- The body in question -- Ways of seeing -- Icon and interface -- Matter of the heart: touching and seeing -- The look of sympathy: feeling and seeing -- The enchantment of media: hearing and seeing -- At the cusp of invisibility: visions, dreams, and images

"In the wake of 9/11, policy analysts, journalists, and academics have tried to make sense of the rise of militant Islam, particularly its role as a motivating and legitimating force for violence against the United States. The general perception is that Islam is more violence-prone than other religions and that scripture and beliefs within the faith, such as the doctrines of jihad and martyrdom, demonstrate the inherently violent nature of Islam. Here, however, Heather S. Gregg draws comparisons across religious traditions to investigate common causes of religious violence. The author sets side by side examples of current and historic Islamic violence with similar acts by Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, and Hindu adherents. Based on her findings, Gregg challenges the assumption that religious violence stems from a faith's scriptures. Instead, Gregg argues that religious violence is the result of interpretations of a religion's beliefs and scriptures. Interpretations calling for violence in the name of a faith are the product of individuals, but it is important to understand the conditions under which these violent interpretations of a religion occur.These conditions must be considered by identifying who is interpreting the religion and by what authority; the social, political, and economic circumstances surrounding these violent interpretations; and the believability of these interpretations by members of religious communities"--

'Auf Grundlage teilstrukturierter Interviews (N=256) mit Brustkrebspatientinnen (Erstmanifestation ohne Fernmetastasen) wurden Äußerungen zu Sinnfindung und Religiosität als relevante Strukturelemente im Kontext der Krankheitsbewältigung identifiziert und analysiert. Für einen großen Teil der betroffenen Frauen besteht eine Bewältigungsstrategie aus der Belegung des Krankheitsgeschehens mit Sinnkomponenten. Die Erkrankung - auch und gerade in ihrer Bedrohlichkeit - wird meist in einer verantwortungsorientierten Sichtweise als Chance zur persönlichen Entwicklung und besseren Lebensgestaltung interpretiert. Dabei wird ein Neben- und Miteinander von traditionellen Werthaltungen, aktuellen Formen alternativer Spiritualität und der Inanspruchnahme komplementärer Heilkonzepte als gegenwärtiger Ausdruck von Krankheitsbewältigung im religiösen Bedeutungszusammenhang sichtbar.' (Autorenreferat)

"Religious Responses to the Pandemic and Crises explores various dimensions of the interrelations between the individual, community, and religion. With their global scope, the contributions to this volume represent reflections on the rich and multifaceted spectrum of human responses in a variety of different religions and cultures to the current SARS2-COVID-19 pandemic and similar crises in the past. The contributions are organized in three thematic parts focusing on strategies, rituals, and past and present human practices in response to medically induced crises. They reflect on the intersection of personal or communal responses and state-mandated policies relative to SARS2-COVID-19 while outlining different strategies to cope with the pandemic crisis. Timely questions explored include: How do individuals connect with or disconnect from religious and spiritual communities during times of personal and collective crises, including pandemics? How do religious practices such as rituals bridge individuals and communities? How do religious texts from past and present highlight and represent crises and pandemics? Dynamic and multidisciplinary in its inquiry, this volume is an outstanding resource for scholars of Anthropology, Religion, Social Sciences, Ritual Theory, Sex and Gender Studies, and contemporary Medical Sciences"--