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Abstract: olgender Beitrag zeichnet die Entwicklung des säkularen Staates seit dem Mittelalter bis zum Grundgesetz anhand der Entwicklung der Religionsfreiheit vom Staatsattribut zum subjektiven Recht nach. Des Weiteren werden die Ausprägungen der Säkularität des Grundgesetzes, welche im sog. Kooperationsmodell und im Grundsatz religiös-weltanschaulicher Neutralität Niederschlag gefunden haben, beleuchtet. Im Zentrum steht hier die politisch immer wieder kontrovers diskutierte Frage, ob der Staat des Grundgesetzes ein Staat ohne Gott ist. Es wird aufgezeigt, dass der säkulare Staat nur dialektisch gedacht werden kann. Der säkulare Staat ist kein Staat ohne Gott, sondern ein Staat, der sich zur Religion in ein Verhältnis setzt. Dieser Befund wird mithilfe eines Vergleiches zu anderen modernen Verfassungsstaaten bestätigt.

This book, first published in 1977, looks at the two peasant revolts that occurred in 1549, in the troubled period following the death of Henry VIII. The uprisings reveal a harsh background of economic and social injustice, intensified at the time by inflation. Peasants in North Devon rose against the imposition of the English Prayer Book, and with the local authorities paralysed and the government wavering between conciliation and repression, a general rebellion broke out. Reinforced by Cornishmen, rallying to the defence of their national identity, the peasants assembled a formidable army and laid siege to Exeter itself. Only after three major battles was the revolt suppressed. The Norfolk peasants rose against agrarian abuses, routing a small royal force and occupying Norwich. Ably led by Robert Kett, they expelled the gentry and governed the county on a programme of social justice until they were crushed by the forces released by the collapse of the other risings. These revolts display the deep-seated resentments and injustices felt by the peasantry of the sixteenth century.

The Tiananmen protests and Beijing massacre of 1989 were a major turning point in recent Chinese history. In this new analysis of 1989, Jeremy Brown tells the vivid stories of participants and victims, exploring the nationwide scope of the democracy movement and the brutal crackdown that crushed it. At each critical juncture in the spring of 1989, demonstrators and decision makers agonized over difficult choices and saw how events could have unfolded differently. The alternative paths that participants imagined confirm that bloodshed was neither inevitable nor necessary. Using a wide range of previously untapped sources and examining how ordinary citizens throughout China experienced the crackdown after the massacre, this ambitious social history sheds fresh light on events that continue to reverberate in China to this day.

The book focuses on Intercultural approach combining a conceptual and practical approach. It is composed by 18 "middle range concepts" - as social integration, migration governance, cultural identity, citizenship, reflexivity, overcoming racism - connecting specific issues with the theoretical dimension to have a good implementation of practices.

Colonial Intrigue in the Middle East : The Faysal-Weizmann Agreement, January 1919 / Michael J. Cohen -- The anti-Zionist 'Jewish Khazar' Syndrome in the official British Mind / Rory Miller -- Churchill and Bevin : Thesis and anti-Thesis? / Michael J. Cohen -- Akram Zu'ayter : The formation of national identity within Palestinian Arab Society / Mustafa Kabha -- The Palestinian Political Parties : Democracy and the Clan / Rami Zaidan -- The Rise and Fall of the Palestinian-Arab Middle Class / Itamar Radai -- The Druze and Christian Minorities in Palestine during the Mandatory Period / Yusri Khaizran -- Illusive Bond : The Arabs of Palestine and the Arab World / Avraham Sela -- Zionism as a blessing for the Arabs: Zionist, Western, and Arab views / Hillel Cohen -- Jewish Immigration : The Base of the Palestine Triangle / Aviva Halamish -- Zionist land acquisition : a core element in establishing Israel / Kenneth W. Stein -- The Origins of Military Zionism / Colin Shindler -- Is Zionism Colonialism? / Yoav Gelber -- Chaim Weizmann : From the Balfour Declaration to the Establishment of the State of Israel / Jehuda Reinharz, Motti Golani -- Ben--Gurion's 'road-map' to Independence, May 1948 / Tuvia Friling -- Arab-Zionist Negotiations during the Mandate : An Unbridgeable Divide? / Neil Caplan, Laura Zittrain Eisenberg.