The seventeenth-century philosophers known as the Cambridge Platonists were recognised in their time as some of England's most influential and controversial philosophers. In this study, Samuel M. Kaldas explores the intellectual contributions of the group, which serve as the foundation for the modern field of philosophy of religion.
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Religion, ethnicity and politics in the Caribbean The relations between ethnie and religious variables in political behavior have often been analyzed in the light of " primordialist ", " instrumentalist " or " ideological " paradigms, generally in opposition to each other. These paradigms turn out to be less antagonistic than complementary when all the dimensions of the phenomena studied are taken into account. From that perspective, the Caribbean countries provide a sample of national situations favorable to comparative analysis. Two aspects are privileged : the ethno-religious mediation of political mobilization ; state regulation of the ethno-religious domain. In both cases analysis reveals the importance of the combination and distribution of cleavages in the processes of either politicization or political neutralization of ethno-religious membership. It also shows that conflicts of interests between ethno-religious communities do not mechanically produce Unes of political division which suppose the emergence of elites able to mobilize a " base " through thé manipulation of symbolic codes derived from group identifies. Lastly, it shows that the sociologics and their discursive expressions appear to be less centrifugal movements than ethno-religious sets of demands for equality with a conflict between two concepts (universalist and communitarian) of national integration and its identity-based corollaries.
