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This research presents a comparative study of aspects of social action and forms of expression within the religious field within Brazil and France. The study focuses on the activities of Youth With a Mission (YWAM), an evangelical charismatic missionary organisation founded in the United States by Loren Cunningham in 1960 and now present in both France and Brazil. Through interviews and comparative observations of the interpersonal dynamics and parachurch proselytizing actions of the missionaries, the aim of the study is to understand the relative impact of the country contexts on the proselytizing strategies of the organisation within its social work. We also analyse the role of the YWAM as social actors and state partners in the social sector, comparing the differing country context of secularism and the welfare state. In this analysis, we consider the issue of public-private collaboration produced by the convergence between YWAM's actions and the distinct legal-administrative contexts in Brazil and France. How do these convergences create innovative forms of social interactions, in terms of religion, social action, and communication? Beyond the socio-political domain, this thesis aims to study the immersion of youths within religious institutions as faith professionals by leaving an ordinary life for a religious commitment. The research analyses who these youths are, and how their family backgrounds and personal trajectories have motivated them to adopt this mode of life. ; Dans cette étude nous proposons un parallèle entre le Brésil et la France, avec un focus sur les différences et ressemblances des enjeux au sein des deux sociétés, en ce qui concerne l'action sociale et ses formes d'expression dans le champ religieux. Cette question sera illustrée par l'étude des activités développées au sein de l'organisation missionnaire de tendance évangélique charismatique Youth With a Mission (YWAM), crée en 1960 par Loren Cunningham aux États-Unis et implantée dans les deux pays. Au travers d'un ensemble d'entretiens et d'une enquête comparative observant les dynamiques personnelles des missionnaires et les actions prosélytes parachurch, l'objectif est de comprendre la situation dans laquelle ces pays se trouvent aujourd'hui en fonction des stratégies prosélytistes intégrées au travail social. Nous nous sommes concentré sur l'analyse du rôle des acteurs évangéliques de YWAM, en tant qu'acteurs associatifs et partenaires dans le domaine de l'action sociale au sein d'États dans lesquels l'État Providence et la conception de la laïcité différent. Nous démontrerons que le choix de la politique sociale appliquée et les éléments qui ressortent de ce système sur les résultats pratiques du cadre de vie des populations des deux pays jouent un rôle sur la manière dont s'exprime la religion et se comportent ses membres, comme dans les moyens d'évangélisation et d'entraide. Dans cette dynamique, nous verrons les implications des actions menées par l'organisation, les effets produits par une « collaboration » entre le religieux et la sphère sociale, et sa rencontre avec la logique des dispositifs juridico-administratifs français et brésilien. Nous explorerons quelques pistes sur les nouvelles formes de sociabilité qui se sont présentées en termes religieux, de manières d'agir et de communiquer. Au-delà du domaine socio-politique, la thèse s'intéresse aussi à la compréhension de l'insertion des jeunes dans les institutions religieuses en tant que professionnels de la foi, quittant un style de vie ordinaire pour un engagement religieux. Notre objectif est de comprendre qui sont ces jeunes, leurs historiques familiaux, leur trajectoires personnelles et comment cette nouvelle vie est perçue et vécue à travers leurs motivations.

This study concerns the construction and the preservation of religious buildings, mainly from an historical point of view by reconstructing the urban city laws since the Italian Unification, through Fascism, the two World Wars and finally the rebuilding during the second postwar period. At the beginning of the Seventies, the first devolution occurred and places of worship, that had been constructed or consecrated for religious purposes, began to be provided with city plans and each federalist intervention occurred without any constitutional changes. It was only at the beginning of the new Millennium that the most significant constitutional reform happened with the overturning of the State and the Regions' legislative competences: the general legislative competence had been conferred to the Regions, while the State remained in charge of specific topics listed in the Constitution. However, even if the competence of the State and the religious Confessions relationships continued to be regulated by the State's laws, the construction of religious buildings began to be controlled by the local authorities. In the last chapter I have focused my attention on the specific case of Lombardia's law for the governance of territories (legge per il governo del territorio), in which five articles concerns the construction of religious buildings. The Lombard law maker demands a long series of requirements of religious Confessions in order to consider a probable construction of a religious edifice or a change in the use of an existing building. There seems to be no problem at present if the religious faith has stipulated an "agreement" with the State. However, the attempt to exclude the Islamic faith is evident, since that it has not made any agreements with the Public Authority. The unconstitutionality of Lombardia's urban city law is therefore evident because it is in contrast with the Italian Constitution articles 3,8, 19 and 20, which represent Italian Secularism and therefore an equal treatment for every religious faith without discrimination or preference for any of them.

Set in Colonial Northern Nigeria, this book confronts a paradox: the state insisted on its separation from religion even as it governed its multireligious population through what remained of the precolonial caliphate. Entangled Domains grapple with this history to offer a provocative account of secularism as a contested yet contingent mode of governing religion and religious difference. Drawing on detailed archival research, Rabiat Akande vividly illustrates constitutional struggles triggered by the colonial state's governance of religion and interrogates the legacy of that governance agenda in the postcolonial state. This book is a novel commentary on the dynamic interplay between law, faith, identity, and power in the context of the modern state's emergence from colonial processes

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Pragmatist Faith in Deliberative Democracy -- 1. Beyond Pragmatist Secularism, Relativism, and Narcissism -- 2. Pragmatist Truth Claims -- 3. The Persistence of Religious Resentment -- 2 The Public Sphere as Utopia -- 1. Religion in Habermas's Public Hermeneutics -- 2. Ricoeur's Hermeneutics of Utopia -- 3. Shattering Dominant Ideologies -- 3 Applying Arendt's Vita Activa to Religion -- 1. Intersubjective Plurality in the Vita Activa -- 2. Arendt's Religion -- 3. After Arendt -- 4 Comparative Political Theology of Sovereignty -- 1. Toward Comparative Political Theology -- 2. Scholem's Messianism -- 3. Qutb's Hakimayyah -- 4. Suspending Theocracy -- 5 Religion in Deliberative Democratic Systems Theory -- 1. New Developments in DDST -- 2. Precluding Religion in DDST -- 3. Religion after Deliberative Systems -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Bonhoeffer's Anti-Judaism -- Bibliography -- Index.

"A range of developments, including the growth of the environmental humanities, recent critiques of secularism and the development of the notion of post secularity, and the so-called ontological turn in cultural history and anthropology, have all renewed interest in the way that religions, and particularly Christianity have shaped our collective relationship with, and understanding of, the natural environment. This Cambridge Companion addresses this renewed interest in an interdisciplinary manner. It brings together contributors from the disciplines of classics, English, environmental ethics, literary studies, history, the history and philosophy of science, philosophy, religious studies, and theology. The chapters that make up this volume offer original contributions to this fascinating and important topic that are accessible to university-level students and readers"--

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Pluralism and rights are under threat from communal violence, authoritarianism, and religious identity politics. How is the Middle East attempting to create more inclusive rights and citizenship? How do religious and nonreligious minorities envision their future in the region? On what basis can communities enjoy citizenship or seek rights in an era when law increasingly draws on religion and majoritarianism for its legitimacy? In this volume, researchers and activists draw on extensive fieldwork to open a new line of discussion in the Middle East as well as among Western policymakers. The question of belonging is more urgent than ever, as governments promote a simplistic discourse that opposes secularism and promotes a Muslims-versus-Christians or Sunni-versus-Shia read of contemporary conflicts. (Verlagsbeschreibung)

Saitya Brata Das rigorously examines Schelling's theologico-political works and sets his thought against his more dominant contemporary, Hegel. Das argues that Schelling inaugurates a new thinking outside of Occidental metaphysics, by a paradoxical manner of exit, which prepares for the post-metaphysical philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Franz Rosenzweig and Jacques Derrida. This new reflection, outside of the Universal world-historical politics of modernity, is achieved by re-thinking religion as eschatology. Intervening in contemporary debates on post-secularism and the return to religion, Das shows that religion, in an essential sense, always opens up infinitude from the heart of finitude, to an irreducible outside of the profane order of worldly hegemonies. Religion here assumes a negative political theology of exception without sovereign power

Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Toward a Dialogue Among Civilizations -- 1. Dialogue among Civilizations: AHermeneutical Perspective -- 2. Conversation Across Boundaries: E Pluribus Unum? -- 3. The Ambivalence of Europe: Western Culture and Its "Other" -- 4. Globalization and Inequality: A Plea for Cosmopolitan Justice -- 5. Global Modernization: Toward Different Modernities? -- 6. Memory and Social Imagination: Latin American Reflections -- Part II Some Exemplaryvoices -- 7. Reason, Faith, and Politics: A Journey to Muslim Andalusia -- 8. West-Eastern Divan: Goethe and Hafiz in Dialogue -- 9. Islam and Democracy: Reflections on Abdolkarim Soroush -- 10. Rethinking Secularism-with Raimon Panikkar -- 11. Freedom East and West: ATribute to D. P. Chattopadhyaya -- 12. What is Self-Rule? Lessons from Gandhi -- Notes -- Index.

1. Western Failure to Predict the 2011 Uprisings/ 19. - 2. The Arab Spring: First Waves/ 35. - 3. Egypt's First Revolution/ 45. - 4. The Arab Spring's Civil Wars/ 55. - 5. The Winds of Uprisings in Arabia/ 71. - 6. US and European Attitudes Toward the Spring/ 81. - 7. Break Down of the Spring/ 97. - 8. Democracy and Secularism can Win/ 115. - 9. The Islamist Lobby War on Middle East Democracy/ 129. - 10. The Weapons of Lawfare and Islamophobia/ 145. - 11. US Policy in the Middle East: General Retreat?/ 163. - 12. Abandoning Middle East Democrats/ 177. - 13. Romney's Alternative View/ 187. - 14. Altnerative Policies Regarding the Middle East/ 195. - Epilogue: The Hot Summer of the Arab Spring/ 213

"Immigrant incorporation is a critical challenge for France and other European societies today. Sub-Saharan African immigrant families experience 'Another France.' Racialization is inherent in the immigration process for African migrants, and a low immigrant status is granted, limiting their employment and social integration, and often irrespective of their qualifications or citizenship documents. First and second generation African youth report being, 'French on the inside, African on the out,' because they hold a French mentality, but are continually put into an 'other' category. The 'power of skin' accords this status of 'immigrant other' which infiltrates all social interaction. Further, the practices of a French universalism and secularism taken together have become a straightjacket and 'ostrich policy' for France. "--

Introduction / Nathan J. Brown and Emad El-Din Shahin -- New wine in old bottles? American efforts to promote democracy in the Arab world / Nathan J. Brown and Amy Hawthorne -- Democracy and security in the Middle East / Richard Youngs -- The fantasy of Arab democracy without a constituency / Walid Kazziha -- Democracy and faith: the continuum of political Islam / Azza Karam -- Transformations in Eastern Europe and lessons for the Middle East / Shlomo Avineri -- Democratic transformation in Egypt: controlled reforms ... frustrated hopes / Emad El-Din Shahin -- Jordan: the myth of democratizing monarchy / Shadi Hamid -- Democracy in Lebanon: the primacy of the sectarian system / Bassel F. Salloukh -- Democracy, Islam, and secularism in Turkey / Ersin Kalaycioglu -- Conclusion / Nathan J. Brown and Emad El-Din Shahin.

Saʻadeh and the concept of regional nationalism / Nassif Nassar -- Union in life : Saʻadeh's notion of the socio-economic cycle / Inʻam Raad -- Saʻadeh and Syrian nationalism / Robert D. Sethian -- Saʻadeh and the greater Syria scheme / Adel Beshara -- Saʻadeh and the recovery of antiquity : the evolution of nations in macro-history / Dennis Walker -- Saʻadeh and Lebanon : a historical perspective / Edmond Melhem -- Some distinguishing aspects of Saʻadeh's thought / Adel Daher -- Secularism in Saʻadeh's thought / Rabeeʻh Debs -- Saʻadeh's philosophical doctrine / Adnan Amshi -- Saʻadeh's conception of religion / Nasri al-Sayegh -- Saʻadeh : the expatriate critic and man of letters / Rabiʻa Abifadel -- Saʻadeh's views on literature and literary renovation / Mohamad Maatouk -- Saʻadeh and national democracy / Sofia A. Saʻadeh -- Saʻadeh and Marxism / Moueen Haddad.

This article analyses the trajectories of secularization, de-secularization and re-secularization in Bangladesh. It is about mapping broad historical developments with reference to basic understanding of secularization and its progress in Bangladesh. The central question in the article is: How have the trajectories of secularization, de-secularization and re-secularization in Bangladesh been influenced by the nexus of internal–external dynamics of political and social forces developed in the 1980s? The article argues that a decisive attempt to rediscover liberal and secular character of politics is currently evident in Bangladesh. The attempt to reestablish secularism in the society also faces a host of challenges, stemming from national, regional and global contexts that echo the 1980s. Methodologically, it is based on policy outlook and trend analysis.

AbstractMuslims in Europe and North America face high rates of discrimination and hostility. Less clear are the consequences of this prejudice on Muslims' political attitudes. Leveraging a survey of 1,330 Muslims in Germany, we show that Muslims who have personally experienced discrimination exhibit higher anti‐system tendencies: more supportive of violence, more supportive of Islamism, and less supportive of democracy and secularism. We also find that these patterns are concentrated among Muslims who believe they "suffer alone," not believing other Muslims experience similar hostility. Finally, through a priming experiment, we find causal evidence that German Chancellor Angela Merkel's inclusive rhetoric and policies toward Muslims may help mitigate these dynamics, reducing perceptions of discrimination and in turn producing pro‐system sentiments.