Comments - When Church and State Collide: Averting Democratic Disaffection in a Post-Smith World
In: Yale law & [and] policy review, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 391-402
ISSN: 0740-8048
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In: Yale law & [and] policy review, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 391-402
ISSN: 0740-8048
In: International Library of Historical Studies
Prayer was regarded as an essential arm of the State and even a method of 'thought control' in early modern England. In the seventeenth Century, the period covered by Richard Ginn's study, Common Prayer dominated people's everyday lives at a national level, in communities and congregations, as well as privately in households. Ginn demonstrates how prayer represented the search for pattern, order and purpose in and between these different layers of society in a period when England was struggling to come to terms with political and social turbulence, rocked by the violence of the Civil War, unea
In: Articles on Calvin and Calvinism 11
In: The review of politics, Band 15, S. 260
ISSN: 0034-6705
In: A journal of church and state: JCS, S. csw002
ISSN: 2040-4867
In: International journal / Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Band 23, Heft 4, S. 626-627
ISSN: 2052-465X
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy
ISSN: 1552-7476
John Locke is acknowledged to be one of the theoretical founders of the separation of church and state, a distinguishing feature of modern liberal democracies. Though Locke's arguments for the merits of such separation have been subject to extensive investigation, his argument for its feasibility has remained relatively unexamined. This article argues that Locke was confident that separation of church and state can successfully be implemented in all times and places because of his epistemological and psychological insights that human beings are moved to act by unease and that separating church and state removes the unease that causes religiously based political instability. We conclude by noting that Locke's understanding of unease is foundational for his larger ambition to secure political liberty.
In: Modern European history
In: Telos: critical theory of the contemporary, Band 2021, Heft 196, S. 149-152
ISSN: 1940-459X
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 40, Heft 4, S. 527-527
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: A journal of church and state: JCS, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 475-481
ISSN: 2040-4867