Religion, Federalism, and the Struggle for Public Life : Cases from Germany, India, and America.
Title:
Religion, Federalism, and the Struggle for Public Life : Cases from Germany, India, and America.
Author:
Everett, William Johnson.
ISBN:
9780195355970
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (221 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- The Religious Cradle of Federal Republicanism -- The Frame of Inquiry -- The Plan of the Book -- ONE: Envisioning the Engagement -- Religion and Federal Republicanism -- The Concept of Covenantal Publicity -- Religion and Political Order in Sociological Perspective -- Summary -- TWO: The Churches and Germany's "Peaceful Revolution" of 1989-90 -- Key Historical Considerations -- The Church in the Revolution of 1989-90 -- Key Issues in the German Experience -- Trust and Reconciliation in a Covenantal Public -- Covenantal Publicity and the Partial Revolution -- THREE: Religious Organization and Constitutional Justice in India -- The Ancient Matrix of Religion and Governance -- The "Historic" Religions: Islam and Christianity -- The Drive for Independence and Constitutional Order -- The Federal Constitution of 1950 -- Redressing Past Inequities: Compensatory Discrimination and Soosai the Cobbler -- From Religious Tutelage to a Common Civil Code: The Case of Shah Bano -- Ecclesiology and Constitutional Order: The United Basel Mission Church Case -- Critical Issues in India's Struggle for Covenantal Publicity -- FOUR: Sacred Lands and Religious Assemblies in America -- The Molding of the American Experience -- Summary -- Methodism and the Quandaries of Republican Federation: The Pacific Homes Case -- Sacred Lands and Native Peoples in Federal Contestation -- FIVE: Assessing the Engagement, Evaluating the Inquiry -- The Critical Role of Ecclesiology -- Ecclesiology and the Federal-Republican Struggle -- Roles of Religion in the Federal-Republican Project -- Religion, Reconciliation, and the Republican Struggle -- The Concept of Covenantal Publicity: An Evaluation -- An Afterword -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
In the past decade, the struggle for new forms of federal order and public life has exploded in central Europe, the former Soviet Union, and South Africa. Religious traditions and organizations have played a crucial role in these revolutions, and have also been critical to the establishment ofconstitutional orders in post-colonial countries like India. Moreover, they continue to undergird and to challenge the understanding of public life in the United States, whether in church-state conflicts or Native American religious claims. William Everett examines the role of religious traditionsin the development of modern federal republicanism, seeking answers to such questions as: How have patterns of religious organization shaped federal republican orders? How do different cultures weave together these political and religious threads into a living fabric that fits their own culturalheritage? How are Western religious traditions of covenant and conciliarism relevant for understanding religion and constitutional developments in non-Western cultures? The author argues that a better comparative grasp of these dynamics is essential to our understanding of the establishment,sustenance, and development of federal republican governance. He presents, as a first step toward this goal, a detailed and comparative study of these patterns in India, Germany, and the United States.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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