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Intro -- Magic Science Religion -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- About this Book -- 1 Introduction -- 1 All or Nothing? -- 2 Kindness -- ASIDE: The Two-Million-Dollar Comma -- ASIDE: Sufficiently Magical Technologies -- ASIDE: Our Gods -- 3 Cruelty -- ASIDE: Ghostly Causality -- ASIDE: Durable Cruelties -- 4 Beginning, Again -- ASIDE: Chaos Invoked -- 5 The Freedom Not to Choose -- ASIDE: No Atheists in Foxholes -- ASIDE: Blake on Firm Perswasion -- ASIDE: Metafictional Magic: The Writer's Will -- ASIDE: Shapely Sentences -- ASIDE: Beckett Meets Twilight Zone, Glass-Half-Full Version -- 2 Complex Systems in a Nutshell -- 1 Horror Movie Reboot -- 2 Interpositivity -- ASIDE: Interpositivity -- 3 Becoming a System -- 4 Creatures of Light -- ASIDE: Transformative for Whom? -- ASIDE: Plant Sorcery -- 5 Tornados, Whirlpools, and Fires -- ASIDE: iii -- ASIDE: Co-evolution -- 6 Leveled -- ASIDE: On being born too early and dying too late -- ASIDE: Up Around the Bend -- 7 A Personifying Universe of Stretchy Things -- 8 Dynamism -- ASIDE: One Plus One Equals Infinity -- 9 Magic, but No Black Boxes -- ASIDE: The T-Shirt Version -- 10 Wildness -- ASIDE: Pet Resemblance via Social Theory -- 3 Magic by Example -- 1 Failed Magic: Modernist Heaven (and Hell) -- 2 Placebo Magic -- ASIDE: Pregnancy via Magic -- ASIDE: Following the Scent -- 3 Mirror Magic -- 4 Biting Game -- 5 Dog Whisperer -- 6 Conclusion -- 4 Future Perfect -- 1 The Gettysburg Address as a Magical Speech Act -- 2 Pool, Poetry, Prose, and Painting -- ASIDE: Dr. Livingston's Magical Bank-Shot Visualizer -- 3 Meteors, Messiahs, and Migraines -- ASIDE: On This Rock I Build My Church -- ASIDE: Falling Off a Log -- 4 Magical Militarism -- 5 Four Asides -- ASIDE: Dr. Livingston's Time Travel 101 -- ASIDE: A Somewhat Rationalizing Account of Mystical Nonviolence.

Der von Manfred Brocker und Mathias Hildebrandt herausgegebene Band stellt die Frage nach dem friedensstiftenden Potential von Religion. Dieses wurde angesichts der von Samuel Huntington entfachten Diskussion vom religionsimprägnierten "Kampf der Kulturen" und insbesondere nach dem 11. September 2001 kaum noch wahrgenommen. Mit der vorliegenden Publikation, hervorgegangen aus der bereits 2004 zum Thema durchgeführten Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises 'Politik und Religion' der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft, setzten die Herausgeber bei diesem Manko an. Die interdisziplinär angelegten Beiträge des Bandes analysieren das Befriedungspotential religiöser Akteure aus theologischer, historischer, philosophischer und politikwissenschaftlicher Perspektive und lösen das Ziel des Bandes, durch eine erste Bestandsaufnahme zum Thema zu weiteren Studien anzuregen, konstruktiv ein. Im Kern besteht die Beantwortung der titelgebenden Ausgangsfrage aus einem "Ja, wenn", wobei diese vermeintlich simple Schlussfolgerung in ihrer Komplexität entfaltet wird und neben erforderlichen Bedingungen gute Gründe und Möglichkeiten aufgezeigt werden, warum es notwendig und gewinnbringend ist, Religion mit wohlwollender Offenheit zu begegnen.

The controversy over mixing religion and politics has not kept religion apart from government. Religious groups participate in a wide variety of political activities. But religious groups in the United States are not organized as political parties or political machines. There is a relation between religious affiliation and party affiliation. The correlation, however, does not usually indicate a "religious" vote. In part, the relation reflects socio-economic status. For Catholics and Jews it is very much a result of awareness of minority status. As minority awareness declines, trends in voting change. There is no pattern of voting for or against candidates because of their religion. The importance of religion in a presidential election cannot be assessed on the basis of other elections. The election of a Catholic president would not change the nature of our government, but it would have an effect on American politics.

The main goal of the second issue of the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, devoted entirely to religion and politics, is precisely to question the sense of a reconstruction of the mutual and simultaneous relations between these two spheres of social life. What does this process mean and where is it taking us?

Introduction: Religion and diversity in Canada / Lori G. Beaman and Peter Beyer -- From far and wide : Canadian religious and cultural diversity in global/local context / Peter Beyer -- Québec and reasonable accommodation : uses and misuses of public consultation / Pauline Côté -- Fearing planes, trains, and automobiles : sociophobics and the disincentive to religious diversity / Douglas E. Cowan -- Two by two : religion, sexuality and diversity in Canada / Pamela Dickey Young -- Does religion matter? Canadian religious traditions and attitudes toward diversity / Sam Reimer -- Canadian religious diversity online : a network of possibilities / Christopher Helland -- Old structures, new faces : the presence of Wicca and neopaganism in Canadian prison chaplaincies / Mireille Gagnon -- Between law and public opinion : the case of Québec / Solange Lefebvre -- A cross-national comparison of approaches to religious diversity : Canada, France and the United States / Lori G. Beaman -- Afterword: Religion, diversity, and the state in Canada / John H. Simpson