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Introduction : the American Catholic century / John T. McGreevy -- U.S. Catholics between memory and modernity : how Catholics are Americans / Robert A. Orsi -- Re-viewing the twentieth century through an American Catholic lens / Lizabeth Cohen -- The Catholic encounter with the 1960s / Thomas J. Sugrue -- Crossing the Catholic divide : gender, sexuality, and historiography / R. Marie Griffith -- The new turn in Chicano/Mexicano history : integrating religious belief and practice / David Gutierrez -- The Catholic moment in American social thought / Wilfred M. McClay -- Conclusion : the forgotten Americans? / R. Scott Appleby

This book explores how philanthropy is perceived and practiced in a predominantly Muslim society. It is the first academic quantification of philanthropic giving and volunteering using a representative sample of the Egyptian population, providing the reader with a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the state of philanthropy in Egypt. The book discusses traditional and religious philanthropic mechanisms and provides a thorough explanation of the waqf system, how it is perceived today, and how it could support innovation. Furthermore, as a solid direct product of the research embodied in the creation of a community foundation, it discusses reviving and modernizing the concept of waqf, thus elaborating an example of how academic studies may be employed to create proto-types for learning and calculated action

North American Buddhists : a field of study? / Paul David Numrich -- Themes and issues in the study of North American Buddhists and Buddhism / Janet McLellan -- Temple and society in the new world : Theravada Buddhism and social order in North America / Carl L. Bankston III and Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo -- The Buddhist mission of North America, 1898-1942 : religion and its social functions in an ethnic community / Arthur Nishimura -- Japanese American religiosity : a contemporary perspective / Tetsuden Kashima -- "True Buddhism is not Chinese": Taiwanese immigrants defining Buddhist identity in the United States / Carolyn Chen -- A religious minority within an ethnic minority : Korean American Buddhists / Karen Chai Kim -- The emergence of a new Buddhism : continuity and change / James William Coleman -- Soka Gakkai : engaged Buddhism in North America / Constance Lynn Geekie

Abstract
As a conceptual tool, effervescence offers a nuanced and complex explanation of forces for social change. Yet, it can be challenging to identify subject matter that spans the full implications of effervescence from embodied feeling to changes in social action over time. This study joins theories of effervescence with a unique set of primary historical records from a nineteenth-century religious utopian community in the United States to investigate whether effervescence might have a role in the creation, maintenance or decay of social ideals. As an explanation for social action, findings suggest that effervescence points to a link between embodied feeling, social ideals and institutional control – aspects of effervescence that offer avenues for future theoretical and empirical research.

Pro-Israeli politicians in Washington have long supported the relocation of the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Nevertheless, contrary to the widespread belief, not all American Jews offer unconditional support to U.S. decisions taken in order to promote Israel's national interests. In this article, interviews were conducted with representatives from various Jewish diaspora groups in United States shortly before and after the official declaration of the U.S. Embassy move in December 2017. This article documents that opinions of American Jews diverge significantly regarding Trump's Jerusalem Embassy decision. This article argues that this divergence stems from Israel's actions and policies toward the Palestinians since the late 1970s and political and religious divisions within the American Jewish community.

THIS ARTICLE ADDRESSES THE SUBJECT OF CANADIAN POLITICAL CULTURE AND TRADITIONS, AND IN PARTICULAR EMPHASIZED THAT SOME DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF CANADIANNESS ARE REVEALED IN THE CONCEPTION OF RIGHTS WHICH IS ENTRENCHED IN THE CHARTER OF FREEDOM AND RIGHTS. THE CANADIAN CONSTITUTION CONTAINS SEVERAL DISTINCTIVE RIGHTS NOT FOUND IN THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. INDEED, THE COLLECTIVE AND COMMUNITY-BASED RIGHTS CANADIANS TAKE FOR GRANTED ARE INIMICAL TO AMERICAN LIBERAL TRADITIONS. NEGATIVE RIGHTS OR INTERPRETIVE PROVISIONS, SUCH AS THE NON OBSTANTE CLAUSE, ARE UNIQUE TO CANADA AMONG WESTERN DEMOCRACIES. THE AUTHOR ARGUES THAT THESE RIGHTS DERIVE FROM THE COUNTRY'S HISTORICAL CONCERNS WITH RELIGIOUS AND LINGUISTIC COMMUNITIES--ESPECIALLY IN QUEBEC--AND THAT THEY IN TURN CONDITION HOW POLITICS MUST BE CONDUCTED IN CANADA.

In Belgium religious influence on public life has been strong; the bishops have often insisted on support for the Catholic party. After WWII it was believed that a 'deconfessionalization' of political life was to emerge, but the attempt failed. The reappearance of anticlericalism among the leftist parties provoked further electoral interference by the bishopry. After 1960, a stabler new pattern emerges where the Church's influence is reduced, favored by a School Pact, a political compromise, by the importance given to community (regional) problems in Belgian politics, & among the Catholics, by the questioning of the role to be played by Christian institutions. In Belgium the secular State is becoming autonomous from the church. AA Tr by D. Burkenroad.

This collection of essays explores more than five centuries of Scottish–Polish interactions. It focuses on the two main moments of contact: the early modern experiences of Scottish pedlars, merchants, mercenaries and diplomats in the Polish–Lithuanian common wealth and the Polish presence in Scotland during the twentieth and early twenty-first century. The latter period includes the Polish military presence in Scotland during World War II and the new Polish migration to Scotland after Poland's accession to the European Union in 2004. The book will be of interest to students and researchers who focus on the boom subject of early modern Scottish emigration to the European continent, and also to more general readers outside the scholarly community. It will be of value to the Polish community in Scotland and to anyone interested in the joint history of these two countries.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction and Conclusions -- History -- Geography -- Government -- Population -- Health -- Education -- Commercial Life -- Recreation -- The Social Evil -- Poverty and Philanthropy -- Prisons -- Teng Shih K'ou District -- My Nearest Neighbors in Peking -- Church Survey -- Religious Work -- Peking Community Service Group -- Appendix I: Geography -- Appendix II: Government -- Appendix III: Population -- Appendix IV: Health -- Appendix V: Education -- Appendix VI: Commercial Life -- Appendix VII: Recreation -- Appendix VIII: The Social Evil -- Appendix IX: Poverty and Philanthropy -- Appendix X: Teng Shih K'ou District -- Appendix XI: Church Survey -- Appendix XII: Religious Work -- Appendix XIII: Questionnaires -- Index.

Machine generated contents note:1.Meaning of Zionism (1922) --2.Policy and Labor (1923) --3.East and West (1925) --4.Sabbatai Zevi: The Messiah as Apostate (1926) --5.Our Stand (1934) --6.Jew and Arab (1934) --7.Revisionism (1934) --8.Notes on Marxism (1935) --9.To a Communist Friend (1936) --10.Open Letter to the Third International (1936) --11.Answer to Gandhi (1939) --12.Leon Trotsky (1939, 1940) --13.Prayer (1940) --14.Einstein Discusses Religion (1940) --15.Psychoanalysis and Moral Pessimism (1940) --16.Chosen Peoples (1941) --17.Socialism Re-examined (1941) --18.Myth of Jewish Parasitism (1942) --19.Go to Nineveh (1941) --20.Halakhah and Agadah (1943) --21.Bankrupt! (1943) --22.Concerning Statehood (1943) --23.Notes on the Melting Pot (1944) --24.Universalism of the Chosen People (1945) --25.Current Alternatives in Palestine (1947) --26.Patriotism and Plural Loyalties (1948) --27.Concerning an Israel Constitution (1949) --28.Jewish Culture and Education in the Diaspora (1951) --29.Future of American Jewry (1951) --30.Church and State: Seven Theses (1952) --31.Religious Tolerance (n.d.).

The author looks into the life & work of Alexander von Humboldt, viewing him as a protagonist of a scientific globalization concept that linked the promotion of science with the trinity of liberty, equality, & fraternity. Humboldt saw fraternite as realized in the form of a worldwide dialogue of scientists. The author observes that Humboldt was a pragmatic & organizational genius of networking, ie, the strategy of public relations that included contacts with scientists & the popularization of scientific achievements. Humboldt's Eurocentrism, which comes to the fore in his work about his travels, is nevertheless as ambivalent as the history of the reception of that work. Truth to tell, this work lay the foundation for European colonization & exploitation of Latin America, but was also essential for its self-understanding & political emancipation. The author claims that Humboldt's private & political ambivalence, essentially productive, is the result of his magnificent incompleteness & imperfections. Adapted from the source document.