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For this dissertation about Pakistani Christians, I have studied three organizations (the Christian Study Centre, the National Commission for Justice and Peace, and "missionary schools") to explore how, civically engaged and self-identified "Christian" or "church-affiliated", organizations are involved in processes of negotiation of Pakistani Christian identity in semi-public settings. The main question was how these organizations negotiate both, their own religious identity and their Pakistani Christian identity, in relation to various others with whom they interact in semi-public settings. The findings of this dissertation demonstrate that Pakistani Christians employ continuously changing categories of identity, which emerge on different levels. This dissertation has demonstrated that Pakistani Christian identity negotiation is affected by perceptions of changing legislation, and of events between Christians and Muslims in Pakistan. Time and again it became evident that contemporary Christian experiences of social and political exclusion and alienation are fashioned by a religious nationalism in which Pakistani belonging is defined in Islamic terms. Negotiations of Pakistani Christian identity are often a response to these experiences. These responses take shape in different settings. At an ecumenical organization for interreligious dialogue, called the Christian Study Centre (CSC), perceptions of Islamization in the 1970s and 1980s are countered by efforts to present Pakistani Christianity as a local religion. In these efforts, Pakistani Christianity must be shed from its European heritage and redefined in relation to Pakistan's socioeconomic, cultural and religious character. In addition, CSC forwards claims of Pakistani Christian citizenship. Christians should be recognized as a religious minority and Christian contributions to Pakistani society are emphasized to prove Pakistani Christian citizenship. Some decades later, at the same organization, perceptions of Islamization are accompanied by experiences of ...

Intro -- Inhalt -- Vorwort -- 1 Biographie und Bibliographie -- 1 Einleitung -- 2 Von Breslau nach Halle oder: von den Anfängen bis zur "würcklichen Lycanthropie" -- 3 Die "Causa Wolffiana" und die Flucht nach Marburg -- 4 Die Marburger Jahre bis zur Rückberufung nach Halle -- 5 Rückberufung nach Halle -- 6 Christian Wolff: Werke (in chronologischer Folge) und Briefe -- 7 Literaturverzeichnis -- 2 Quellen -- 2.1 Sources of Wolff's Philosophy: Scholastics/Leibniz -- 1 What is Scholasticism for Wolff? -- 2 The division of metaphysics -- 3 Leibnizian-Wolffian philosophy -- 4 Monads and elements -- 5 Pre-established Harmony -- 6 Notion and idea -- 7 Conclusion -- 8 Bibliography -- 2.2 Secondary Authors' Influence on the Formation of the Wolffian "System Of Truths" -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Authors studied by Wolff in the gymnasium of Breslau -- 2.1 Caspar Neumann (1648 - 1715) -- 2.2 Johannes Scharf (1595 - 1660) -- 2.3 Rudolf Agricola (1444 - 1485) -- 3 Authors studied by Wolff at the university of Jena -- 3.1 Erhard Weigel (1625 - 1699) -- 3.2 Johann Christoph Sturm (1635 - 1703) -- 3.3 Johann Paul Hebenstreit (1664 - 1718) -- 3.4 Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651 - 1708) -- 4 Conclusion -- 5 Bibliography -- 3 Philosophiebegriff und Methode -- 1 Einleitung -- 2 Definition der Philosophie -- 2.1 Wissenschaft und Fertigkeit -- 2.2 Möglichkeit und Wirklichkeit -- 2.3 Grund und Gewissheit -- 3 Wolffs Methode -- 3.1 Wolffs Bestimmung der Methode als mathematisch, philosophisch, wissenschaftlich -- 3.2 Die Regeln und die Hauptmomente der Methode -- 3.3 Das connubium rationis et experientiae (Die Ehe zwischen Vernunft und Erfahrung) -- 4 Zusammenfassung -- 5 Literaturverzeichnis -- 4 Logik -- 1 Die zwei Logiken -- 1.1 Die Quellen -- 1.2 Logik, Ontologie und Psychologie -- 2 Die Unterteilung der Logik -- 2.1 Die Begriffsbildung -- 2.2 Urteilslehre

Intro -- Half title -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Spirit of Brotherhood: Foundations of British Christian Socialism -- 2 Identity Crisis: Christian Socialism in Post-War Britain -- 3 A Hostile Environment: Religious Socialism in Europe -- 4 What Would Jesus Do? Social Gospel and Socialism in the United States -- 5 Moral Minority: The Christian Left in the Age of the Christian Right -- 6 Preferential Option for the Poor: Liberation Theology in Latin America -- 7 Liberty to the Captives: Liberation Theology Across the World -- 8 Where Next for the Christian Left? -- Notes -- Index.

To identify the kind of a world in which one lives is a matter of serious consequence whether that be the world of pre-Christian Rome, of Aquinas and the age of faith, of Puritan New England, of the Enlightenment, of Victorian England, or of today. For one's understanding of his world enables him to address himself to it, in one way or another; and for the Christian this means the possibility of comparing it with God's intention for the world and ministering to it in his name. Ours is not the world that our fathers of a generation or two ago conceived it to be. The rise of totalitarianisms in a Europe once baptized; the rise of crime and the abandonment of Christian morality; the cri sis in belief in God and the dimini shing strength and influence of organized religion—these are but a few, though potent, evidences of that fact. We no longer take certain mores for granted. We do not go to war to make the world safe for democracy; we hope that we can retain it for ourselves! With disillusionment,pessimism, and even cynicism evident in all sectors of society it is little wonder that ours is being called a post-Christian era—in Europe, and also here.