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Along with the processes of globalisation and the end of the cold war we have seen an upsurge in religious nationalism and an increasing focus on the role of religion as a legitimising force in democratic secular states. Holy Nations & Global Identities draws on the combined theoretical and historical insight of historians, political scientists and social scientists on the question of nationalism and globalisation with the methodological knowledge of religion presented by sociologists of religion. The book brings genuine theoretical explorations and original case studies on civil religion, nationalism and globalization. It also provides an introduction to the research history of the fields and aims to develop and elaborate on the theories and methodology of the investigated subjects.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Discourse Analysis as an Anthropology of the Mundane: An Interview -- Entering Discourses: A New Agenda for Qualitative Research and the Sociology of Knowledge -- Religious Discourse and Its Modules -- Historical Discourse Analysis: The Entanglement of Past and Present -- Whose Voice Is This? The Multicultural Drama from CDA and DST Perspectives -- Some Important Conceptual Lines of Discourse Theories in Cultural Studies of Religion -- The Power Politics of 'Religion': Discursive Analysis of Religion in Political Science and International Relations -- Religion, Discourse, and the Economy Question: Fraught Issues in Market Societies -- Dynamics of the Human Rights Discourse on Freedom of Religion - Observed from the Religious Studies Angle -- Gender and Its Vicissitudes -- 'Beyond' Language? Ecology, Ontology, and Aesthetics -- Index of Key Terms -- Index of Places -- Index of People

The articles of this volume treat the expansion of the Nordic ideology in the first half of the twentieth century. They concentrate on the amalgamation of scientific, religious and political features, which transformed the idea of the North into a mainstay of extreme nationalism. Lacking positive norms and values, the Nordic idea depended on the opposition against everything deemed un-Nordic. Völkisch Nordicism shared with conventional forms of nationalism the enmity with Judaism and Bolshevism and - to a lesser extent - with Anglo-Americanism and Catholicism. Beyond that, it constituted a myt

1. Introduction: Orientation as a Life-Function -- 2. Science versus Scientism: Is There Such a Thing as the Scientific Worldview? -- 3. Varieties of Naturalism and Humanism -- 4. Rediscovering the Importance of Ordinary Experience -- 5. The Unavoidability of Worldviews -- 6. Worldviews and the Limits of Philosophy -- 7. Coda: Blocked Roads and Genuine Options

Derrida's writings on the question of religion have played a crucial role in the transformation of scholarly debate across the globe. The Trace of God provides a compact introduction to this debate. It considers Derrida's fraught relationship to Judaism and his Jewish identity, broaches the question of Derrida's relation to the Western Christian tradition, and examines both the points of contact and the silences in Derrida's treatment of Islam

From within a religious tradition as complex and divisive as Christianity, Muddathir 'Abd al-Rahim, professor of Political Science and Islamic Studies at the International Islamic University of Malaysia, provides a resource-rich explication of human rights and duties in Islam. The difficult challenge for contemporary Hinduism-that being 'a recognition of plurality and distinctiveness on the one hand, and equality of human beings on the other'-is aptly illustrated in India's democratic Constitution, which calls for individual equality before the law and the freedom of religion; religious freedom for most Hindus, however, includes 'Karma and rebirth-and thus inequality at birth' (p. 175).

THE DECLINE IN THE TRADITIONAL VALUES THAT HAVE SUSTAINED MODERN STATES AND CRISES DUE TO THE WEAKENING OF THE STATE AT THE INSTITUTIONAL LEVEL HAVE BOTH BEEN CAUSED BY RELIGIOUS ACTIVISM AND HAVE OPENED THE DOOR TO GREATER INVOLVEMENT OF RELIGION IN POLITICS. THIS PAPER CONSIDERS THESE DEVELOPMENTS, FOCUSING ON THE CASES OF INDIA AND THE MUSLIM WORLD.

Der Verfasser setzt mit der Theorie des Sozialkapitals Putnams am sozialintegrativen Potenzial von Religion in der Moderne an und weist die Theorien der Privatisierung und funktionalen Differenzierung als Beschreibungen religiöser Gegenwart zurück. Religion besitzt vielmehr positive Einflüsse auf die Herausbildung des Sozialkapitals als wertvolle gesellschaftliche Ressource. So belegt er in einer Auswertung statistischer Daten für Deutschland positive Korrelationen von Religionszugehörigkeit mit der Bereitschaft und Ausübung zivilgesellschaftlichen Engagements, mit Vertrauen und mit dem Prinzip der Reziprozität als Dimensionen sozialen Kapitals, wenngleich die einzelnen Religionsgemeinschaften (Protestanten, Katholiken, Muslime) unterschiedliche Implikationen auf die Dimensionen zu besitzen scheinen. Die Verfasser betonen so in Abgrenzung zu Säkularisierungsdiskursen eine hohe Bedeutung oder einen Bedeutungszuwachs der Religion und Religionszugehörigkeit für Politik und Gesellschaft. (ICE2)

AbstractPrior work has shown party activists and religious divisions to be two of the leading causes of party polarization in American politics. Using the Convention Delegate Studies, we examine the interaction between these two culprits and their impact on party polarization. We leverage a novel measure of secularism in the latest wave of the Convention Delegate Studies to demonstrate that active secularism is distinct both conceptually and statistically from low religiosity. Furthermore, we show that both religiosity and secularism drive party activists to take more extreme policy positions, to identify themselves as more ideologically extreme, and to exhibit less support for compromise. As the Democratic and Republican Parties have become more secular and religious, respectively, these results suggest religious polarization may compound existing divisions between the two parties and exacerbate the partisan divide in American politics.