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Religion as Liberal Politics [PDF]

, 2023
US and UK courts define religion as a belief system dealing with existential concerns, which is separable from politics, and need not be theistic. Where does this concept of religion come from?
Adenitire, J
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Is China Repressing or Moulding Religion? 'Religious Freedom', Post-coloniality, and the Chinese State Building [PDF]

, 2022
This article focuses on three conceptual lenses through which a better understanding of the politics of religion in contemporary China is expected to obtain.
Gao, Zhe
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Religion and World Politics [PDF]

, 2022
Religion and World Politics provides a short, accessible, and practical introduction to how we can understand the place of religion in world politics in a more comprehensive, contextually relevant way.
Wilson, Erin, Wilson, Erin K.
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Politics, Religion and Gender [PDF]

, 2012
Heated debates about Muslim women's veiling practices have regularly attracted the attention of European policymakers over the last decade. The headscarf has been both vehemently contested by national and/or regional governments, political parties and ...

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Values – Politics – Religion: The European Values Study

, 2023
This open access book analyses the international data of the European Values Study (EVS 1990 - 2017), with a focus on the impact of religious on political values from empirical as well as theoretical perspectives, i.e.

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Separation of Church and State, American Exceptionalism, and the Contemporary Social Moment: Viewing Church–State Separation from the Priority of Slavery

Religions, 2021
The contemporary social moment in the United States has affirmed the critical importance of racial justice, and especially claims to justice informed by the contributions of structural and institutional forces connected with the nation’s original sin of ...
Joseph Prud'homme
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Secularity as a Point of Reference: Specific Features of a Non-Religious and Secularized Worldview in a Family across Three Generations

Religions, 2022
My contribution will focus on secular and non-religious worldviews and will aim to reconstruct secular relationships with the world that develop from lived values and their transmission in the family.
Christel Gärtner
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A critical Discussion of Complexity Theory: How does 'Complexity Thinking' improve our Understanding of Politics and Policymaking?

Complexity, Governance & Networks, 2017
In this article, we present a critical discussion of complexity theory. We ask: what does it really offer policy studies? We suggest that its stated advantages-- interdisciplinarity, theoretical novelty, and empirical advance--are generally exaggerated ...
Paul Cairney, Robert Geyer
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Herskende religion i den kristelige stat [PDF]

, 2022
This book examines legal and state theoretical ideas on the relationship between religion and state, and its significance for the politics of religion in Norway in the 19th century.
Aschim, Per Kristian
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’Foucault's Ironies and the Important Earnestness of Theory’

Foucault Studies, 2012
Foucault’s History of Sexuality 1 cannot be understood without sustained attention to its ironies, which are written into every level from diction to structure. The little book does not intend to deliver a theory, queer or otherwise. It means rather to
Mark D. Jordan
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