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Secularization in Malawi and Britain

Author : Billy Gama
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9996025446
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Secularization in Malawi and Britain written by Billy Gama and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major purpose of this book is to critically examine the applicability of manifestations and factors of secularization in Britain to Malawi. The book was guided by the key research question, "Are the manifestations and factors of secularization in Britain applicable to Malawi?" The question was supported by other follow up questions, namely, "What were the factors that contributed to the rise of secularization in Britain?" "What is the connection between Britain and Malawi?" "To what extent does secularization in Britain affect that in Malawi?" "Does Malawi have unique factors that are specific or are the same factors at work that have contributed to the process of secularization in Britain?"

Religious Education Policy in Turkey and England: A Comparative Perspective

Author : Abdurrahman HENDEK
Publisher : Dem
ISBN 13 : 6058018374
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Religious Education Policy in Turkey and England: A Comparative Perspective written by Abdurrahman HENDEK and published by Dem. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Secular Age

Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674986911
Total Pages : 889 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book A Secular Age written by Charles Taylor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.

Multicultural Kingdom

Author : Harvey C. Kwiyani
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 033405754X
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Multicultural Kingdom written by Harvey C. Kwiyani and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Multicultural Kingdom’ explores some of the causes and implications of ethnic diversity on the British Christian landscape – and the landscape of theology itself. Why do we prefer to remain segregated in our ecclesiology? Why do several churches of different ethnic heritage use the same building for services on Sunday but not worship together?

Secular Translations

Author : Talal Asad
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231548591
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Secular Translations written by Talal Asad and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Secular Translations, the anthropologist Talal Asad reflects on his lifelong engagement with secularism and its contradictions. He draws out the ambiguities in our concepts of the religious and the secular through a rich consideration of translatability and untranslatability, exploring the circuitous movements of ideas between histories and cultures. In search of meeting points between the language of Islam and the language of secular reason, Asad gives particular importance to the translations of religious ideas into nonreligious ones. He discusses the claim that liberal conceptions of equality represent earlier Christian ideas translated into secularism; explores the ways that the language and practice of religious ritual play an important but radically transformed role as they are translated into modern life; and considers the history of the idea of the self and its centrality to the project of the secular state. Secularism is not only an abstract principle that modern liberal democratic states espouse, he argues, but also a range of sensibilities. The shifting vocabularies associated with each of these sensibilities are fundamentally intertwined with different ways of life. In exploring these entanglements, Asad shows how translation opens the door for—or requires—the utter transformation of the translated. Drawing on a diverse set of thinkers ranging from al-Ghazālī to Walter Benjamin, Secular Translations points toward new possibilities for intercultural communication, seeking a language for our time beyond the language of the state.

The Homosexuality Debate in Malawi

Author : Mawerenga, Jones Hamburu
Publisher : Mzuni Press
ISBN 13 : 9996060160
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Homosexuality Debate in Malawi written by Mawerenga, Jones Hamburu and published by Mzuni Press. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homosexuality is a cross-cutting challenge to Malawian society with theological, socio-cultural, economic, legal, political, and human rights implications. This book argues that the solution to the homosexuality debate in Malawi does not lie in either the criminalization or decriminalization of homosexuality; neither does it lie in homophobia nor heterophobia. However, the solution to the homosexuality debate lies in achieving a harmonious co-existence of both heterosexuals and homosexuals by practicing mutual tolerance. The book concludes by suggesting various activities to be taken by: The Government of Malawi; Gay Rights Activists; Religious Leaders; Traditional Leaders; and Malawian Society to ensure the aforementioned tolerance and understanding is encouraged.

Secularism and Cosmopolitanism

Author : Étienne Balibar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231547137
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Secularism and Cosmopolitanism written by Étienne Balibar and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between cosmopolitanism and secularism—the worldwide and the worldly? While cosmopolitan politics may seem inherently secular, existing forms of secularism risk undermining the universality of cosmopolitanism because they privilege the European tradition over all others and transform particular historical norms into enunciations of truth, valid for all cultures and all epochs. In this book, the noted philosopher Étienne Balibar explores the tensions lurking at this troubled nexus in order to advance a truly democratic and emancipatory cosmopolitanism, which requires a secularization of secularism itself. Balibar argues for the idea of the universal against its particular dominant institutions. He questions the assumptions that underlie popular ideas of secularism and religion and outlines the importance of a new critique for the contemporary world. Balibar holds that conflicts between religious and secular discourses need to be reframed from a point of view that takes into account the cultural hybridization, migration and mobility, and transformation of borders that have reshaped the postcolonial age. Among the topics discussed are the uses and misuses of the category of religion and the religious, the paradoxical genealogy of monotheism, French laïcité’s identitarian turn, and the implications of the responses to the Charlie Hebdo attacks for an extended definition of free speech. Going beyond circumscribed notions of religion and the public sphere, Secularism and Cosmopolitanism is a profound rethinking of identity and difference that seeks to make room for a renewed political imagination.

The Secularization Debate

Author : William H. Swatos
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742507616
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Secularization Debate written by William H. Swatos and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduced to social scientific audiences by Max Weber, the concept of secularization has had a major influence on the way in which religion has been understood in the West. But at least since the late 1980s both the predictive and the descriptive adequacy of this concept have been seriously challenged. In the face of this challenge, The Secularization Debate offers a timely summary of the critical issues that have arisen over the past decade. With its wide range of essays by prominent international scholars, The Secularization Debate is sure to become a pivotal volume for anyone interested in the hotly contested concept of secularization and its continued relevance to the study of religion.

Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference

Author : Linell E. Cady
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231162480
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference written by Linell E. Cady and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global struggles over women’s roles, rights, and dress have taken center stage in a drama that casts the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opposition. Advocates for equality speak of the issue in terms of rights and modern progress while reactionaries ground their authority in religious and scriptural appeals. Both sides presume women’s emancipation is tied to secularization. This volume upsets these certainties by blending diverse voices and traditions, both secular and religious, in studies historicizing, questioning, and testing the implicit links between secularism and expanded freedoms for women. Rather than treat secularism as the answer to conflicts over gender and sexuality, these essays show how it structures the conditions generating them.

The Sacrality of the Secular

Author : Bradley B. Onishi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231545231
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Sacrality of the Secular written by Bradley B. Onishi and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a bold and historically rooted vision for the future of philosophy of religion, The Sacrality of the Secular maps new and compelling possibilities for a nonsecularist secularity. In recent decades, philosophers in the continental tradition have taken a notable interest in the return of religion, a departure from the supposed hegemony of the secular age that began with the Enlightenment. At the same time, anthropologists and sociologists have begun to reject the once-dominant secularization thesis, which both prescribed and described the demise of religion in modern societies. In The Sacrality of the Secular, Bradley B. Onishi reconsiders the role of religion at a time when secularity is more tenuous than it might seem. He demonstrates that philosophy’s entanglement with religion led, perhaps counterintuitively, to vibrant reconceptions of the secular well before the unraveling of the secularization thesis or the turn to religion. Through rich readings of Heidegger, Bataille, Weber, and others, Onishi rethinks what philosophy can contribute to our understanding of religion and the wider social and cultural world.

The History of Islam in Africa

Author : Nehemia Levtzion
Publisher : James Currey
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The History of Islam in Africa written by Nehemia Levtzion and published by James Currey. This book was released on 2000 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Islamic faith in Africa spans 14 centuries. This book provides a detailed mapping of the cultural, political, geographic and religious past of Islam in a single volume. Intended as a reference and textbook, it does not assume prior knowledge of the subject.

A London Bibliography of the Social Sciences

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A London Bibliography of the Social Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1-4 include material to June 1, 1929.

The Church of England and British Politics Since 1900

Author : Thomas Rodger
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781783274680
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book The Church of England and British Politics Since 1900 written by Thomas Rodger and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together researchers in modern British religious, political, intellectual and social history, this volume considers the persistence of the Church's public significance, despite its falling membership.

Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith

Author : Gianni Vattimo
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231520417
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith written by Gianni Vattimo and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate over the place of religion in secular, democratic societies dominates philosophical and intellectual discourse. These arguments often polarize around simplistic reductions, making efforts at reconciliation impossible. Yet more rational stances do exist, positions that broker a peace between relativism and religion in people's public, private, and ethical lives. Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith advances just such a dialogue, featuring the collaboration of two major philosophers known for their progressive approach to this issue. Seeking unity over difference, Gianni Vattimo and René Girard turn to Max Weber, Eric Auerbach, and Marcel Gauchet, among others, in their exploration of truth and liberty, relativism and faith, and the tensions of a world filled with new forms of religiously inspired violence. Vattimo and Girard ultimately conclude that secularism and the involvement (or lack thereof) of religion in governance are, in essence, produced by Christianity. In other words, Christianity is "the religion of the exit from religion," and democracy, civil rights, the free market, and individual freedoms are all facilitated by Christian culture. Through an exchange that is both intimate and enlightening, Vattimo and Girard share their unparalleled insight into the relationships among religion, modernity, and the role of Christianity, especially as it exists in our multicultural world.

A Secular Age Beyond the West

Author : Mirjam Künkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110841771X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book A Secular Age Beyond the West written by Mirjam Künkler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compares secularity in societies not shaped by Western Christianity, particularly in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.

The Shadow of God

Author : Michael Rosen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674244613
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Shadow of God written by Michael Rosen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Rosen shows how the redemptive hope of religion became the redemptive hope of historical progress. This was the heart of German Idealism: purpose lay not in God’s judgment but in worldly projects; freedom required not being subject to arbitrary authority, human or divine. Yet purpose and freedom never shed their theistic structure.

The Hebrew Republic

Author : Eric Nelson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674050587
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book The Hebrew Republic written by Eric Nelson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularization—the exclusion of religious arguments from political discourse. But in this pathbreaking work, Eric Nelson argues that this familiar story is wrong. Instead, he contends, political thought in early-modern Europe became less, not more, secular with time, and it was the Christian encounter with Hebrew sources that provoked this radical transformation. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Christian scholars began to regard the Hebrew Bible as a political constitution designed by God for the children of Israel. Newly available rabbinic materials became authoritative guides to the institutions and practices of the perfect republic. This thinking resulted in a sweeping reorientation of political commitments. In the book’s central chapters, Nelson identifies three transformative claims introduced into European political theory by the Hebrew revival: the argument that republics are the only legitimate regimes; the idea that the state should coercively maintain an egalitarian distribution of property; and the belief that a godly republic would tolerate religious diversity. One major consequence of Nelson’s work is that the revolutionary politics of John Milton, James Harrington, and Thomas Hobbes appear in a brand-new light. Nelson demonstrates that central features of modern political thought emerged from an attempt to emulate a constitution designed by God. This paradox, a reminder that while we may live in a secular age, we owe our politics to an age of religious fervor, in turn illuminates fault lines in contemporary political discourse.