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This bookillustrates how religion and ideology were used by Robert Mugabe to ward off opposition within his own party, in Zimbabwe and from the West. An interdisciplinary line up ofcontributorsargue that Mugabe used a calculated narrative of deification - presenting himself as a divine figure who had the task of delivering land, freedom and confidence to black people across the world - to remain in power in Zimbabwe. The chapters highlight the appropriation and deployment of religious themes in Mugabe's domestic and international politics, reflect on the contestation around the deification of Mugabe in Zimbabwean politics across different forms of religious expression, including African Traditional Religions and various strands of Christianityand initiate further reflections on the interface between religion and politics in Africa and globally. Politics and Religion in Zimbabwewill be of interest to scholar of religion and politics, Southern Africa and African politics.

"Ni discipline poussiéreuse ni Dieu, le droit est partout. Vie juridique et vie organique assurent ainsi, ensemble, un fidèle ballet harmonieux dont la mise en scène est laissée aux mains du législateur. Si le recours au droit peut sembler indispensable face à une question aussi importante que la santé, force est de constater que sa compatibilité avec la religion demeure épineuse. Élément déterminant dans la vie de nombreux patients et personnels soignants, la religion occupe pourtant une place importante dans le domaine de la santé, si bien que le fait religieux s'installe sur le marché des soins. Mais le droit peut-il seulement avoir une prise là où le respect de l'intégrité physique lui commande de s'abstenir? Destiné aux juristes, aux professionnels, aux étudiants, aux usagers et aux non-juristes, cet ouvrage offre une réflexion pratique sur le cadre général du droit de la santé et sa conciliation, ou plutôt, sa réconciliation avec la religion. Quelle place pour les convictions religieuses dans la décision médicale? Jusqu'où le droit peut-il autoriser l'expression de la religion? Peut-il seulement s'octroyer ce privilège?"--Page 4 de la couverture

This article opens by refusing some traditional ways to approach the theme of comparative education and religion-and-education. Partly, this is because some topics, in terms of religion and education, have been well covered. More generally, there is an explicit refusal of the clichéd assumption that 'comparative education articles' compare (e.g. education systems in Argentina and Australia, or in Brazil and Bolivia; and so on), juxtaposing narratives on any-old-topic which interests the writer, provided the narratives are about two or more different countries. Fortunately, some current changes in the 'epistemic gaze' of comparative education create new levels of theoretical difficulty and permit a break from the classic political equilibrium problem of the liberal secular state juggling education policy choices and juggling competing religious groups. Starting from a different axiom, a sketch of new possibilities is offered. The sketch is theoretically clumsy but it opens up a strategically different way to tell comparative education stories, of the kind which traditionally we have not tried to tell. The conclusion of the article makes a guess about why religion and education might again become a major topic in comparative education. ; Este artículo comienza rechazando algunas formas tradicionales de abordar el tema de la Educación comparada y la religión y la educación. En parte, esto se debe a que algunos temas, en términos de religión y educación, han sido bien cubiertos. En términos más generales, hay un rechazo explícito del supuesto cliché de que los 'artículos de educación comparada' se comparan (por ejemplo, sistemas educativos en Argentina y Australia, o en Brasil y Bolivia, y así sucesivamente), yuxtaponiendo narrativas sobre cualquier tema antiguo que interesa el escritor, siempre que las narraciones sean sobre dos o más países diferentes. Afortunadamente, algunos cambios actuales en la «mirada epistémica» de la educación comparada crean nuevos niveles de dificultad teórica y permiten una ruptura con el problema de equilibrio político clásico del Estado liberal secular que hace malabares con las opciones de política educativa y con los grupos religiosos en competencia. A partir de un axioma diferente, se ofrece un bosquejo de nuevas posibilidades. El boceto es teóricamente torpe, pero abre una forma estratégicamente diferente de contar historias de educación comparativa, del tipo que tradicionalmente no hemos tratado de contar. La conclusión del artículo hace una conjetura sobre por qué la religión y la educación podrían convertirse nuevamente en un tema importante en la Educación comparada.

"Recent decades have seen a rise in religious nationalism and fundamentalism around the world. This book focuses attention on a Japanese expression of fundamentalism and neonationalism based on Shinto and symbolically centered on Yasukuni Shrine. The Shinto tradition is often seen as a very tolerant expression of religion that allows for diverse forms of belief and practice, but when closely tied to the interests of the state or political power it can be used to legitimize coercion in public life and institutions. This became particularly apparent in wartime Japan and has reappeared in the postwar period in what has been identified as expression of "Yasukuni fundamentalism," a movement that seeks to revive and restore the social order and values expressed in the Emperor-centered form of Shinto that existed before the end of the Second World War. Yasukuni fundamentalists not only want to recover and revitalize the tradition disestablished by the Allied Occupation of Japan, but also seek to impose it on the larger public through the re-nationalization of Yasukuni Shrine, revision of the postwar Constitution, and reform of the public school system. This book examines the growth of this neonationalist movement in post-disaster Japan, the social conflict generated by their political agenda, and the various forms of opposition by religious leaders and groups, as well as public intellectuals, to the reappearance of coercion the public sphere"--

Intro -- Introduction -- Contents -- Part I: Religion Through the Eyes of a Biologist -- Evolution in All Its Facets -- References -- The Scientific Approach to Religion -- References -- What Do We Know? What Can Be Known? -- References -- Understanding Religion from the Inside -- References -- Part II: About Evolutionary Biology and the Evolution of Religion -- Evolution: The Modern Synthesis -- References -- Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Epigenetics and the Contingency of Evolution -- References -- Gene-Culture Coevolution -- References -- Part III: Phenomenology of Paleolithic Religion -- A Story Told Backwards -- References -- The Beginning and the End: Pre-Human and Neolithic Religion -- References -- Hominin Pre-Adaptations: Background to the Evolution of Religion -- References -- Part IV: CSR: The Cognitive Science of Religion -- Evolutionary Psychology and Religion -- References -- Religious Fanaticism -- References -- Practical Religion and Spirituality -- References -- Magic, Religion and Evolutionary Ethics -- References -- Part V: Modeling the Evolutionary Path to Culture and Religion -- Multi-Level Models of Religious Evolution -- References -- Conclusion and Outlook -- References.