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'Der demokratische Rechtsstaat bildete niemals einen geschlechtsneutralen Modus der Limitierung und Legitimierung von Herrschaft. Er hatte ebenso vergeschlechtlichte Voraussetzungen wie ent-geschlechtlichende Nachwirkungen (und vice versa). Auch der liberale Rechtsstaat fungiert also als soziales und geschlechtliches Gestaltungsprinzip. Mit dem sozialen Rechtsstaat hatten sich aber reale und materielle Gleichstellungschancen auch für Frauen eröffnet, die mit der neoliberalen Wende allerdings ins Stocken geraten. Unter den Bedingungen neoliberaler Globalisierung sind daher neue Doktrinen des Rechtsstaats im Entstehen.' (Autorenreferat)

"This book explores the problem of models and their limits over three interrelated sites in the first half of the nineteenth century: questions of landed property in a small area on the eastern coast of British India called Cuttack, debates over the method and categories of political economy in Britain, and practices of agrarian governance across different regions of British India."

Although the Information Age is often described as a new era, a cultural leap springing directly from the invention of modern computers, it is simply the latest step in a long cultural process. Its conceptual roots stretch back to the profound changes that occurred during the Age of Reason and Revolution. 'When Information Came of Age' argues that the key to the present era lies in understanding the systems developed in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to gather, store, transform, display and communicate information.

In this essay I review three important volumes for the field of secular studies: Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age, Rethinking Secularism, and The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere. All three volumes explore the nature of the secular and the status, role, and possible futures of religion in our late modern, globalized world. The volumes present 34 essays by 30 authors representing seven disciplines, and at least six end games. For some, questions of religion-secular entanglement are a historical matter and the task is to map intellectual and ideological trajectories. A second purpose is to empirically document the complexities of particular religion-secular entanglements in particular socio-cultural locations. For others, the remit is theoretical, to discern a conceptual agenda for the ongoing study of religion-secular entanglements. Others are more philosophical, chasing the existential consequences of secularity. A fifth end game is applied in nature: reflections on how political actors might best engage the religious and the secular in acts of governance and international relations. Finally, there are normative voices, those seeking to name what a good, productive religion-secular entanglement ought to look like. Taken together, the volumes mark a thriving, mature field of scholarly inquiry: secular studies has come of age.

Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Writers and contributors -- Essays on building a better world -- Closing the gap -- Second take -- Educating India -- Peaceful dividends -- A balancing act -- Prescription for change -- Blood money -- Upwardly mobile -- Great expectations -- Food of the future -- Empowering a generation -- Guiding light -- Acting local -- Africa's future -- The road ahead -- Leading from the front -- City of opportunity -- Transforming communities -- World in action -- Life goals -- Personal growth -- The power of sharing -- On being human -- Generations for good -- A social mission -- Changing lives -- Good returns -- Building bridges -- Global giving -- Beyond rhetoric -- Copyright