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Daß in den verschiedenen europäischen Ländern im Laufe des 19. und des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts auch die großen Kirchen vom Nationalismus erfaßt wurden, ist seit langem bekannt. Kaum erforscht sind dagegen die Randzonen und Grenzgebiete: Jene Regionen, in denen religiöse Traditionen und nationale Solidarität sich nicht einfach ergänzten, sondern in denen widersprüchliche Loyalitäten zu Konflikten führten. Nachwuchsforscher aus den USA und Deutschland diskutieren in dem vorliegenden Band eine Reihe dieser "Fälle". Dadurch weisen sie der neueren Religions- wie der Nationalismusforschung neue Wege.

A review essay on books by (1) Jurgen Habermas, Zwischen Naturalismus und Religion: Philosophische Aufsatze ([Between Naturalism and Religion: Philosophical Treatises] Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2005); (2) Lucas Swaine, The Liberal Conscience: Politics and Principle in a World of Religious Pluralism (New York: Columbia U Press, 2006); & (3) Paul J. Weithman, Religion and the Obligations of Citizenship (Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 2002/2006).

In a thoroughly updated second edition of his popular and engaging book, John D. Caputo revisits Augustine's ancient question 'what do I love when I love my God?' and presses it into service in the post-modern world. Accessible but without compromising the big ideas, he raises the question of what religion means today in the face of widespread religious violence after 9/11, of spreading secularization, the dazzling discoveries of contemporary cosmology, and the eerie advent of the 'post-human' world.

Religion before and after secularism -- True religion and temporal gods -- True religion and consumption -- True religion as special effect.

Written in an engaging and accessible tone, Religion in America probes the dynamics of recent American religious beliefs and behaviors. Charting trends over time using demographic data, this book examines how patterns of religious affiliation, service attendance, and prayer vary by race and ethnicity, social class, and gender. The authors identify demographic processes such as birth, death, and migration, as well as changes in education, employment, and families, as central to why some individuals and congregations experience change in religious practices and beliefs while others hold steady. Religion in America challenges students to examine the demographic data alongside everyday accounts of how religion is experienced differently across social groups to better understand the role that religion plays in the lives of Americans today and how that is changing..