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Ashes of Our Fathers: Racist Monuments and the Tribal Right [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
[Updated 2/23/21: complete chapter scan] In this chapter I sketch a rightist approach to monumentary policy in a diverse polity beleaguered by old ethnic grievances. I begin by noting the importance of tribalism, memorialization, and social trust. I then
Demetriou, Dan
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Exclusivism and exclusivity: a contemporary theological challenge [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The phenomenon of religious exclusivism increasingly confronts peoples of faith and goodwill who wish only for peaceful co-existence in equality and freedom with their religious neighbour. But there is more than one variety of religious exclusivism. This
Pratt, Douglas
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Crowding Out the Market: State Religious Policy and Social Capital Among Religious Adherents

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do governments’ policies toward religion impact the relationship between citizens and civil society? A large body of literature examines the effect of social capital on democratic governance. Studies of State Religious Policy, or SRP, however, have shown complex and potentially contradictory effects on different types of social capital ...
Brendan Szendrő
wiley   +1 more source

Partners in history: The Dutch Reformed Church and theological training at the University of Pretoria: 1938–2000

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
The Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria celebrates its centenary in 2017. Theological training at the university started in 1917 when the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika decided to train its own ministers.
Johan van der Merwe
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
wiley   +1 more source

The Heidelberg Catechism: A 16th century quest for unity

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014
In this contribution the view is presented that the Heidelberg Catechism should be regarded as an attempt to promote unity between 16th century reformers and churches in the Palatinate.
Wim A. Dreyer
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Unitas and concordia in the confessions: significance for fellowship among Lutheran churches [PDF]

open access: yes, 1981
There is a sufficient basis in the Augsburg Confession for doctrinal and confessional unity among Lutherans. The paper suggests that while sufficient debate has taken place on the theological substance of the Confessions, not enough attention has been ...
Nostbakken, Roger W.
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Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Depolarisation

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It has been suggested that multiculturalism has contributed to majority anxieties and thereby to the current polarisation. This article focuses on how to tackle and lessen this polarisation, which is fostering mutual distrust and threatening the national, democratic citizenships upon which any multiculturalist, egalitarian and unifying project
Tariq Modood
wiley   +1 more source

Religion as memory: How has the continuity of tradition produced collective meanings? – Part one

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2015
Danièle Hervieu-Léger gives an account of religion as a chain of memory, that is, a form of collective memory and imagination based on the sanctity of tradition. According to her theory, in the postmodern world the continuity of religious memory has been
Jakub Urbaniak
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Creation Stories: Stanley Hauerwas, Same-Sex Marriage, and Narrative in Law and Theology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
When I think about--members of my own staff who are incredibly committed, in monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together.
Copeland, Charlton C.
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