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Diner reviews 'Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience' by Jonathon D. Sarna and David G. Dalin.

Main description: Diese Studie geht der Bedeutung und den Mustern und Strukturen von Religion im Alter nach. Ihr Fokus liegt auf der Frage nach dem Sinn des Lebens. Neben der Identifikation von Sinndimensionen im Alter bildet die Erarbeitung eines dem Forschungsgegenstand adäquaten Designs der empirischen Studie einen Schwerpunkt. Damit ist sie sowohl für die religiöse Altersforschung wie die praktisch-theologische Religionsforschung interessant.

Zusammenfassung
In der vergleichenden Wohlfahrtsstaatenforschung wird vermehrt auf den Einfluss religiöser Überzeugungen verwiesen. Als Vermittler religiöser Ideen gelten vor allem politische Parteien. Anhand einer prozessanalytischen Rekonstruktion der Entstehung der niederländischen Arbeitslosenversicherung zeigt dieser Artikel, dass der Faktor Religion nicht nur durch die politischen Parteien, sondern auch durch das Verbändesystem und die industriellen Beziehungen auf die Ausformung von Sozialpolitik wirkt.

"A century ago the dominant philosophical outlook was not some form of materialism or naturalism, but idealism. However, this way of thinking about reality fell out of favour in the Anglo-American analytic tradition as well as the Continental schools of the twentieth century. The aim of this book is to restage and reassess the encounter between idealism and contemporary philosophy. The idealist side will be represented by the great figures of the 19th-century post-Kantian tradition in Germany, from Fichte and Schelling to Hegel, followed by the towering Hegelians in Britain led by T.H. Green, F.H. Bradley and Bernard Bosanquet. Their 20th-century adversaries will be represented by the secular existentialists, especially the famous French trio of Sartre, Beauvoir and Camus, who sought to follow Nietzsche in philosophizing in light of the death of God. And the arena of encounter will be the philosophy of religion-more specifically, questions relating to the nature and existence of God, death and the meaning of life, and the problem of evil. The book argues that the existentialist critique of idealism enables an innovative as well as a more critical and adventurous approach that is sorely needed in philosophy of religion today. Idealism after Existentialism will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in the history of 19th- and 20th-century philosophy and philosophy of religion"--

AbstractThis paper explains the nature of sacred text and the process of canonization in the Yārsān religion. To this end, we first show how three formative ideas—i.e., the history of divine manifestation, the angelology of scribing, and the scripture of Qabālah—played a major role in the emergence of canonization and sacred text in the Yārsān religion. We then turn to the parallel, heterogeneous processes of canonization in the Yārsān community, showing that factors such as the community's rhizomatic structure, idea of infinite divine manifestation, continuous process of producing holy texts, and the heterogeneous nature of its oral tradition hindered the emergence of an ultimate canon in the Yārsān community. Additionally, the sacred Yārsān texts, as the outputs of canonization procedures, are divided into three categories: narrative, testimony, and ritual. Finally, following scrutiny of the linguistic nature of Gorāni koine, the paper attempts to clarify the relationship between different types of religious texts and the formative idea of Qabālah as the archetypal sacred text in the Yārsān religion.

Exploring traditional religious concepts of and attitudes towards nature and how these have been changed by the environmental crisis, this work looks at larger conceptual issues that transcend individual traditions and examines religious participation in environmental politics.