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This yearly commemoration of Martin Wight by means of a lecture is doubly appropriate. An annual lecture keeps his memory green among his friends and pupils. And in the second place, it is a peculiarly fitting celebration because Martin Wight was a teacher whose greatest and most seminal influence was in large measures exercised in lectures tutorials, seminars and discussion groups. Exercised that is by means of the spoken, the living, word transmitted directly person to person, mind to mind. When it is contrasted with, say, a book, mere speech is thought to be something fleeting and evanescent, not to be compared with the tangibility, fixity, durability of the written and the printed word. But this is the merest superstition, for that which is fixed is also dead and inert. If the written word has power to speak to us, to move us, this is because it is the emanation and the embodiment of the living spirit. I am, here, put in mind of a striking passage which occurs in that most moving of Plato's writings, the writing known as the seventh epistle – a passage where Plato describes how his teaching is transmitted. This teaching he declares is not to be found in anything written down. The knowledge with which he is concerned is of the kind which "after long-continued intercourse between teacher and pupil, in joint pursuit of the subject, suddenly, like light flashing forth when a fire is kindled, it is born in the soul and straightway nourishes itself. "The light of Martin Wight's discourse, its rayonnement, an irradiation now felt by many who never knew or met him – it is this which has brought us together on this occasion, and which illuminates the issues I am about to consider – issues which we have reason to believe interested him closely, and in more ways than one.

Fil: Diz, Andrés Sebastián. University of Buenos Aires. Faculty of Philosophy and Letras. ; Ensayo bibliográfico sobre las obras de Kenneth D. Wald y Allison Calhoun-Brown (2011), Religion and Politics in the United States, Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield, 455 p.; y Mark Hulsether (2007), Religion, Culture, and Politics in the Twentieth-Century United States, Edimburgh University Press, Edimburgo, 249 p. ; Fil: Diz, Andrés Sebastián. University of Buenos Aires. Faculty of Philosophy and Letras. ; Fil: Diz, Andrés Sebastián. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.

Heated debates about Muslim women's veiling practices have attracted the attention of European policymakers over the last decade. The headscarf has been both vehemently contested by national and/or regional governments, political parties and public intellectuals and passionately defended by veil wearing women and their supporters. Systematically applying a comparative perspective, this book addresses the basic question: why does the headscarf tantalise and cause such controversy over issues about religious pluralism, secularism, neutrality of the state, gender oppression, citizenship, migratio

This article looks at the role of religion in politics. Northern Ireland provides not only a good case study for this issue but also an opportunity to see how the subject has been approached in academic literature over the last forty years. It is argued here that religion can be a modern day, independent factor of considerable influence in politics. This has been important not only in Northern Ireland but also elsewhere in Western Europe in the twentieth century. This reality has been largely ignored until recently, partly because the situation in Northern Ireland has often been studied in a limited comparative context, and partly because of restrictive intellectual assumptions about the role of religion in politics.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Beyond Sacred and Secular: A Comparative Analysis of Religious Politics in Israel and Turkey -- Part One. Paradox of Modernity? The Conundrum of Religion in Politics -- 1. Politics of Religion: Competing and Coalescing Conceptualizations -- 2. Religion in the Making of the Israeli and Turkish Nation-States: Incomplete Debates and Continuing Institutional Reformations -- Part Two. Ideologues or Pragmatists? The Ideas and Ideologies of Religious Politics -- 3. Representing the Sacred in Mundane Politics: The Ideologies and Leaders of Mafdal and Shas -- 4. Representing Islam in Secular Politics: The Ideologies and Leaders of the Nationalist Action, the National View, and the Justice and Development Parties -- Part Three. The Popular Roots of Religious Parties -- 5. Between Zionism and Judaism? Religious Party Supporters in Israel -- 6. Between Laicism and Islam? Religious Party Supporters in Turkey -- Conclusion. Sacro-Secular Encounters: A Comparative Model of Religious Parties -- Notes -- Index

This is a book review of Uma Maheswari Bhrugubanda, Deities & Devotees: Cinema, Religion, and Politics in South India (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Achieving and Leveraging Diversity through Faith- Based Organizing -- 2. Progressive Religious Activists and Democratic Party Politics -- 3. Why Congregations Mobilize for Progressive Causes -- 4. Collective Identity and Movement Solidarity among Religious Left Activists in the U.S. -- 5. Cultural Challenges for Mainline Protestant Political Progressives -- 6. Activist Etiquette in the Multicultural Immigrant Rights Movement -- 7. Challenges and Opportunities of Community Organizing in Suburban Congregations -- 8. Religious Roots of New Left Radicalism -- 9. Religious Culture and Immigrant Civic Participation -- 10. Progressive Activism among Buddhists, Hindus, and Muslims in the U.S. -- 11. Religious Beliefs and Perceptions of Repression in the U.S. and Swedish Plowshares Movements -- 12. Reviving the Civil Religious Tradition -- 13. Strategic Storytelling by Nuns on the Bus -- 14. "Neutral" Talk in Educating for Activism -- 15. How Moral Talk Connects Faith and Social Justice -- Conclusion -- About the Contributors -- Index