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Angesichts aggressiver religiöser Alleinvertretungsansprüche wird die Frage zunehmend drängender, wie dieser Entwicklung begegnet werden kann. Die Antwort auf Gewalt darf nicht in Gegengewalt bestehen; vielmehr gilt es, Gründe und Ansätze aufzuzeigen, die für eine Akzeptanz von Menschen ungeachtet ihrer religiös-weltanschaulichen Zugehörigkeit sprechen. Dies ist nicht nur theologisch wichtig, sondern hat auch Bedeutung für das Zusammenleben von Menschen unterschiedlicher Religion und Kultur in modernen Gesellschaften. Dieser Band verfolgt das Anliegen, den Dialog in der Theologie zu stärken - und zwar nicht nur in christlicher Theologie, sondern auch in den 'Theologien' anderer großer Religionen wie dem Judentum, dem Islam, dem Hinduismus und dem Buddhismus. Es werden Antworten auf die Frage gegeben, was sich in den theologischen Selbstverständnissen der eigenen wie auch der anderen religiösen Traditionen ändert, wenn Dialog in die Mitte rückt. Theologische Experten und Expertinnen unterschiedlicher religiöser Traditionen nehmen Stellung zu Offenheit gegenüber den religiös Anderen und äußern sich zu Perspektiven einer dialogischen Theologie.

Vor 1000 Jahren lebten und wirkten Heinrich II. und Kunigunde mit all ihren Vorstellungen und Grundsätzen, die durch das Mittelalter geprägt waren. Sie waren Kinder ihrer Zeit, die Gott und die Kirche verehrten und dennoch als Herrscher nach politischer und ideeller Verwirklichung strebten. Doch ist das wirklich möglich? Kann man hegemoniale Machtansprüche und zugleich eine Förderung der Religion anstreben, ohne dass das eine oder das andere auf der Strecke bleibt? Waren Kunigunde und vor allem Heinrich politische Christen? Bewerkstelligten sie den Spagat zwischen Nächstenliebe und eigenen Ansprüchen? Oder war der Glaube womöglich nur eine Massnahme des Kaisers, den Klerus für sich zu gewinnen?

From introduction: "The role of religion in U.S. foreign policy is a very complex issue. Dependent on the personal attitude of the researcher, religion can play a major or secondary role in analyzing the process of shaping American behavior in international relations. This topic is extremely difficult for political scientists (and I daresay for other scholarly approaches as well) due to its inherently internal nature. It is easier to research and analyze open, accessible and, even if controversial, publicly discussed topics. However, this is not the case with religion. When asked to contribute to the volume on this topic the first feeling was confusion. Undoubtedly, there is religious inclination in the deeds and actions of the following American administrations, but does that mean that all the actions are guided by religious principles? Does it mean that the point of relevance is the divine principles of Christianity? Is the Decalogue the driving force of American foreign policy? Ultimately, how can we measure this topic? I will risk saying no to these questions."(.)

Religion and accountability for restorative offender rehabilitation
Offender rehabilitation has different meanings for different people because we may have varying expectations about what rehabilitation actually looks like. Sung Joon Jang and Byron R. Johnson walk us through the role of religion and accountability in restorative rehabilitation. Rehabilitation may be determined to have been achieved based on the fact that an offender was not arrested for a new crime during a set period of time after completing a particular program or therapy. Another individual may conclude that an offender was rehabilitated when he or she was hired for a full-time job after completing an education or job training program and could retain employment for a certain period of time without getting into trouble at work.

The question is asked whether Moral Majority is a threat or a challenge. The answer, I believe, is that it is both. The less intelligently we respond to the challenge, the greater is the threat.The concern is about a cluster of organizations and movements representing an alliance between religion and the New Right in American politics. Moral Majority and its leader, Jerry Falwell, are simply the most visible part of the phenomenon. I am persuaded that the religious New Right represents a deep and long-term change in American religion, culture, and politics. Moral Majority and other organizations may not be around five years from now, but the change they represent will be with us for a long time.

In this ground-breaking volume, the authors analyze the role of religion in conflict and conflict resolution. They do sofrom the perspectives of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, while bringing different disciplines into play, including peace and conflict studies, religious studies, theology, and ethics. With much of current academic, political, and public attention focusing on the conflictive dimensions of religion, this book also explores the constructive resources of religion for conflict resolution and reconciliation. Analyzing the specific contributions of religious actors in this field, their potentials and possible problems connected with them, this book sheds light on the concrete contours of the oftentimes vague religious factor in processes of social change. Case studies in current and former settings of violent conflict such as Israel, post-genocide Rwanda, and Pakistan provide real-life contexts for discussion. Combining cutting-edge research with case studies and concrete implications for academics, policy makers, and practitioners, this concise and easily accessible volume helps to build bridges between these oftentimes separated spheres of engagement. The Open Access version of this book, available at: http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003002888, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Religious Women's Invisibility : Obstacles and Opportunities -- Catholic Women Building Peace : Invisibility, Ideas, and Institutions Expand Participation / Maryann Cusimano Love -- Muslim Women's Peacebuilding Initiatives / S. Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana -- Creating Peaceful and Sustainable Communities through the Spiritual Empowerment of Women in Buddhism and Hinduism / Dena Merriam -- Jewish Women in Peacebuilding : Embracing Disagreement in the Pursuit of "Shalom" / Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen -- An All-Women Peacekeeping Group : Lessons from the Mindanao People's Caucus / Margaret Jenkins -- Women, Religion, and Peacebuilding in Kaduna State, Nigeria / Bilkisu Yusuf and Kathleen McGarvey -- The Politics of Resistance : Muslim Women Negotiating Peace in Aceh, Indonesia / Etin Anwar -- Women Reborn : A Case Study of the Intersection of Women, Religion, and Peacebuilding in a Palestinian Village in Israel / Andrea K. Blanch, with co-authors Esther Hertzog and Ibtisam Mahameed -- Women Citizens and Believers as Agents of Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Zilka Spahi? ?iljak -- Women Peacebuilders in Postcoup Honduras : Their Spiritual Struggle to Transform Multiple Forms of Violence / Monica A. Maher -- Women, Religion, and Trauma Healing : A Case in India / Anjana Dayal Prewitt -- Strengthening Religious Women's Work for Peace / Jacqueline Ogega and Katherine Marshall -- Women, Religion, and Peace : Seeking Common Ground -- Appendix: Scholars and Practitioners Engaged with Women, Religion, and Peace

The past generation has witnessed a resurgence of religion in global politics, but political science has been slow to catch up with it. The reason lies in the secularism embedded in the field's major theories, one that reflects actual secularism in world politics, beginning with the events surrounding the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 & growing steadily through the middle twentieth century. Today, a small but growing number of political scientists have begun to explore religion, doing so in ways that depart from secular assumptions & embrace religion's distinctiveness to greater & lesser degrees. Adapted from the source document.

Complemented with interviews with workers, managers, and business owners, Manufacturing Mennonites pioneers two important new trajectories for scholarship - how religion can affect business history, and how class relations have influenced religious history

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Religion, Law, and Politics, American Style, by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan -- Part I Making Religion American -- 1. A Home, Made Abroad: American Religion from Colonies Through the Civil War, by Evan Haefeli -- 2. "A Perfect, Irrevocable Gift": Recognizing the Proprietary Church in Puerto Rico 1898– 1908, by David Maldonado Rivera -- 3. Home Rule: Equitable Justice in Progressive Chicago and the Philippines, by Nancy Buenger -- 4. America Is Hard to See, by Courtney Bender -- Part II Making Ourselves -- 5. Homemaking in Palestine: Jessie Sampter, Religion, and Relation, by Sarah Imhoff -- 6. On the Abroad of a Different Home: Muhammad Ali in Micro- Scope, by M. Cooper Harriss -- 7. Domestic Bones, Foreign Land, and the Kingdom Come: Jurisdictions of Religion in Contemporary Hawaii, by Greg Johnson -- 8. "Legacy," by Matthew Scherer -- Part III Inside/Outside -- 9. The Rule of Law, by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan -- 10. Double Standards in a Tripartite World, by Jolyon Baraka Thomas -- 11. The Cultural Politics of Yoga in India and the United States, by Sunila S. Kale and Christian Lee Novetzke -- 12. Border Religion, by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd -- Part IV Abroad -- 13. Established Authorities: Theology, the State, and the Apartheid Struggle, by Melani McAlister -- 14. In Search of Normcore? Religion at Home and Abroad in Norway, by Helge Årsheim -- 15. When Home Becomes Abroad, and Abroad Becomes Home: Thinking American Empire Through a New Sudan, by Noah Salomon -- Afterword: Double Vision, Double Cross: American Exceptionalism, Borders, and the Study of Religion, by Pamela E. Klassen -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index

Intro -- An Islamic Philosophy of Virtuous Religions -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- ALFARABI'S LIFE AND HIS INFLUENCE -- ALFARABI'S MANNER OF WRITING -- OVERVIEW -- 2. The Impossibility of the City in the Republic -- KALLIPOLIS AS IDEAL STATE OR TOTALITARIAN NIGHTMARE? -- THE THREE WAVES AND THE PROBLEM OF POSSIBILITY -- The First Wave -- The Second Wave -- The Digression on War -- The Third Wave -- 3. The A Fortiori Argument -- ALFARABI ON THE REPUBLIC IN THE ATTAINMENT OF HAPPINESS: EDUCATING PHILOSOPHER-KINGS TO RULE THE INHABITED WORLD, THE CHALLENGE -- TENSION IN THE "UNITY OF THE VIRTUES": HARD VS. SOFT -- THE UNEASY PEACE BETWEEN PRUDENCE ANDWISDOM -- 4. Alfarabi on Jihâd -- FROM ÎMÂN VS. KUFR TO ISLÂM VS. HÓ ARB -- ALFARABI'S APHORISMS ON JIHÂD -- Aphorisms 67 and 79 -- Aphorisms 11-16 -- Aphorisms 68-76 -- ALFARABI'S ATTAINMENT OF HAPPINESS ON JIHÂD -- CHALLENGES TO COMPELLING GOOD CHARACTER -- 5. The Multiplicity Argument -- THE INCREASING TENDENCY TOWARD CONQUEST AND DOMINATION -- THE TASK OF DELIBERATION:SHAPING A MULTIPLICITY OF CHARACTERS -- THE TASK OF THEORETICAL VIRTUE: SHAPING A MULTIPLICITY OF OPINIONS -- RELIGION AS AN IMITATION OF PHILOSOPHY -- 6. The Limits of Knowledge and the Problem of Realization -- KNOWLEDGE AND EXPLOITATION -- Attainment of Happiness -- The Philosophy of Aristotle: The Limits of Our Knowledge of Final Causes -- CERTAINTY AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF UNIVERSALS AND PARTICULARS -- THE LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE INHERENT MULTIPLICITY OF RELIGION -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Author/Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z -- Index of Passages from Alfawarabi's Attainment of Happiness.