198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
195 Pages
by
Routledge
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This new volume examines the relationship between religion and politics from a historical perspective. Contributors address specific moments in which political governance intersects with religious ideals in dramatic ways. These moments question the relationship between religious sentiments and political solutions and threaten to reorder the geopolitical landscape. These essays discuss the... Read more
1: “Something as Yet Unfinished”: Carl Becker and the Liberal Paradox; 2: Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, and the Necessity of Political Theology; 3: Escape from Theology: Theistic and Nontheistic Religion in the Socialist Humanism of Erich Fromm; 4: The Persistence of Civil Religion in Modern Canada; 5: The Politicization of Hinduism and the Hinduization of Politics: Contrasting Hindu Nationalism with the Transformative Visions of Swami Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi; 6: Ontology, Plurality, and Roman Catholic Social Teaching: An Engagement with Liberation Theology; 7: The Pseudo-Isidorean Decretals and Church–State Conflict; 8: Thomas Aquinas on Providence, Prudence, and Natural Law; 9: The Mystical Body of Christ and French Catholic Action, 1926–1949; 10: Secularism in Turkey: An Analysis of the Impact of Justice and Development Party’s Policies on the Secularist State Structure
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Gabriel R. Ricci
