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The relationship between the sacred & the secular in the US is examined historically & in the present, including what the founding fathers intended & how church-state relations have changed over time. The tendency of contemporary leaders to inject their religious views into public policy positions is analyzed in some detail, & perils of abridging the principles of church-state relations that are enshrined in the Constitution are reviewed. Also considered are the perceptions of leaders & opinionmakers abroad. Shifts in positions of US leaders in response to the demands of partisan politics are noted. HA

Estudio del candomble, del naninguismo, del vodu y de algunas creencias y practicas rituales de Venezuela

La subordination de la religion à l'État prend la forme d'un accommodement dans le Traité théologico-politique . Dans le chapitre XIX, Spinoza utilise à maintes reprises le verbe latin accommodare pour décrire leurs relations et l'on peut se demander ce que cela signifie. L'article analyse la nature et les figures des accommodements théologico-politiques, leurs avantages et leurs limites afin de préserver la paix de la République.

THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES THE SARVODAYA SHARAMADANA MOVEMENT IN SRI LANKA AS A FORCE FOR CHANGE. IT OUTLINES THE ORIGINS OF THE MOVEMENT, ITS SPIRITUAL IDEOLOGY, AND ITS PRACTICAL PROGRAMS. THE MOVEMENT SEEKS TO APPEAL TO PEOPLE OF ALL RELIGIONS AND SOCIAL POSITIONS AND HOPES TO FOSTER HARMONIOUS COOPERATION IN THE BETTERMENT OF SOCIAL CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT SRI LANKA. THE MOVEMENT IS EVIDENT IN OVER A THIRD OF SRI LANKA'S 23,000 VILLAGES.

Attitudinal barriers for visually handicapped people may have their roots in religious beliefs. Professionals in the field of visually handicapped have a responsibility to deal with attitudinal change, and to provide the expertise that facilitates such a change. This article explores the relationship between religion, religious attitudes and blindness, and suggests a means of changing historically negative attitudes. A model is presented for providing a seminar for religious leaders.

On the occasion of the publication of Fernando Savater's book on eternal life, the article sets out many issues concerning how to treat religion rationally. According to Savater, the basis for religious belief is the human wish for eternal life. The article evaluates the coherence of this argumentation and its religious relevance. It also asks about truth and the role which religion should play. An analysis is made of the absence in Savater's thought of major distinctions between religion and politics, and the difficulties to which these omissions give rise. ; Con ocasión del libro de F. Savater sobre la vida eterna, el artículo plantea diversas cuestiones acerca de cómo tratar racionalmente la religión. Según Savater, el fundamento de las creencias religiosas es el deseo humano de la vida eterna. El artículo evalúa la coherencia de la argumentación y su relevancia religiosa. Se pregunta también por la verdad y por el papel que debe jugar la religión. Se analiza la ausencia en el pensamiento de Savater de distinciones relevantes entre religión y política y las dificultades que comportan estas omisiones.

In this volume, authors Alan Bailey and Dan O'Brien examine the full import of David Hume's arguments and the context of the society in which his work came to fruition. They analyze the nuanced nature of Hume's philosophical discourse and provide an informed look into his position on the possible content and rational justification of religious belief. The authors first detail the pressures and forms of repression that confronted any 18th century thinker wishing to challenge publicly the truth of Christian theism. From there, they offer an overview of Hume's writings on religion, paying particular attention to the inter-relationships between the various works. They show that Hume's writings on religion are best seen as an artfully constructed web of irreligious argument that seeks to push forward a radical outlook, one that only emerges when the attention shifts from the individual sections of the web to its overall structure and context. Even though there is no explicit denial in any of Hume's published writings or private correspondence of the existence of God, the implications of his arguments often seem to point strongly towards atheism. David Hume was one of the leading British critics of Christianity and all forms of religion at a time when public utterances or published writings denying the truth of Christianity were liable to legal prosecution. His philosophical and historical writings offer a sustained and remarkably open critique of religion that is unmatched by any previous author writing in English. Yet, despite Hume's widespread reputation amongst his contemporaries for extreme irreligion, the subtle and measured manner in which he presents his position means that it remains far from clear how radical his views actually were

Intro -- Preface -- From Humankind and Nature to Citizenship and Religion -- How to Deal with Such Complex Issues? -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1: Introduction: Citizenship, Religion and Moral Values -- 1 Our Struggles with Citizenship, Religion and Secularism -- 2 Is Religion a Resource or a Barrier for Active Citizenship? -- References -- Part I: Our Struggles with Citizenship, Religion, and Secularism -- 2: Citizenship and Religion: A British Perspective -- 1 A Personal Retrospective: Solidarities and Reforms -- 2 New Citizenship Dimensions -- 3 Tipping-Point in Space and Time -- 4 Religious Disaffiliation and Local Religious War -- 5 The Return of Religion -- 6 What Framework for What Citizenship? -- References -- 3: Citizenship, Secularism and Religion: A 'Triangle' in Permanent Tension -- 1 'Where I'm Speaking From' -- 1.1 My Roots -- 1.2 My Childhood -- 1.3 My Adolescence -- 1.4 Discovery of the United States -- 1.5 My Time as a Student -- 1.6 Entry into Professional Life -- 2 Secularities (laïcités) and the Place of Religions in the Public Domain -- 2.1 Lay People Inside and Outside Churches -- 2.2 Religion, a Public or Private Matter? -- 2.3 Open Secularism -- 2.4 Closed Secularism -- 3 Citizenship, Public and Private -- 3.1 Levels of Citizenship Action -- 3.2 The Aims of Citizenship Action -- 3.3 Universal Religions and Social Transactions -- 4 Conclusion: Taking Religion Seriously but Without Complacency -- 4.1 Saying Is Not Doing -- 4.2 Active Citizens and Religions -- References -- 4: How Is It Possible to Be Muslim in France? -- 1 Retrospective -- 2 Muslim Impossible? Towards an Anthropological Understanding of Religion -- 3 Catho-Laicity -- 4 The Laicity of Incompetence -- 5 A Feminist Secularism -- 6 And Then Came Those Acts of Terrorism -- 7 Sociology and Expertise.

Chapter Five: Spirituality and Systems Therapy: Partners in Clinical Practice; An Illustration; Introduction; Paradigm One: Spirituality; Paradigm Two: Systems Theory; Some Commonalities and Differences; Convergence; Three Implications for Counseling; Another Case Study; Chapter Six: Mixing Oil and Water Religiously: Counseling Interfaith Families; Introduction; Approaching Faith Structures: Boundaries and Coordinates; Judaism As Affect; Christianity As Meaning; Unitarian Universalism As Power; The Impact of Family; Specific Dynamics of Interfaith Consultations.

The article raises questions about how changes in sacred dogmatics affect the development of dance culture. In contrast, is it possible for dance to influence religious ideology? Why for some confessions dance is an inte-gral part, and for others – a sinful act? Consideration of the attitude of religious consciousness to dance in the historical aspect determines the relevance of the topic. The paper attempts to go beyond the understanding of dance as a bodily-physical phenomenon and determine its metaphysical foundations, from the position of which it is possible to talk about the relationship between dance and religion and proto-religion. The author shows not only the historical and cultural points of intersection of dance and religion, but also reveals the onto-logical features of their relationship on the basis of M. Eliade's method of the history of religions.

Abstract:The turn of the nineteenth century was an extremely dynamic and formative time in Canadian history as it defined its "imagined community." Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities espoused nation and nationalism through his concept as "imagined communities," both politically and culturally. "National identities are imagined as both intrinsically limited and sovereign. The nation is imagined as limited because, no matter the size or scope, it is finite in its inclusion and there is always "others" beyond its borders." Through research on suffragist writings from both men and women, suffragist organizations membership, documents written about the future of Canada, and the concept of maternal feminism there remained a majority of people committed to a future "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant" nation. The women's suffragist movement and "maternal feminism," intertwined with nationalism, created a reciprocal effect, which established an "imagined community" that included those who belonged and "others" who clearly did not. Suffragist, armed with new found political influence, endorsed policies of assimilation or legislation to keep Canada from accepting people of "degenerating" races or religions. Clearly, nationalism and an emerging Canadian identity had profound influences on the suffragist movement and maternal feminism, causing once a once marginalized gender to now subjugate "others" based on class, race or religion.