Secular Powers
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Secular Powers
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Author : Julie E. Cooper
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-10-18
Secular Powers written by Julie E. Cooper and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-18 with Philosophy categories.
Secularism is usually thought to contain the project of self-deification, in which humans attack God’s authority in order to take his place, freed from all constraints. Julie E. Cooper overturns this conception through an incisive analysis of the early modern justifications for secular politics. While she agrees that secularism is a means of empowerment, she argues that we have misunderstood the sources of secular empowerment and the kinds of strength to which it aspires. Contemporary understandings of secularism, Cooper contends, have been shaped by a limited understanding of it as a shift from vulnerability to power. But the works of the foundational thinkers of secularism tell a different story. Analyzing the writings of Hobbes, Spinoza, and Rousseau at the moment of secularity’s inception, she shows that all three understood that acknowledging one’s limitations was a condition of successful self-rule. And while all three invited humans to collectively build and sustain a political world, their invitations did not amount to self-deification. Cooper establishes that secular politics as originally conceived does not require a choice between power and vulnerability. Rather, it challenges us—today as then—to reconcile them both as essential components of our humanity.
Secular Power Europe And Islam
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Author : Sarah Wolff
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2021-06-08
Secular Power Europe And Islam written by Sarah Wolff and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-08 with History categories.
Reconsidering the European Union's secular identity
Powers Of The Secular Modern
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Author : David Scott
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2006
Powers Of The Secular Modern written by David Scott and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Social Science categories.
This book presents a set of critical engagements by writers from a variety of disciplines with the work of noted anthropologist Talal Asad.
The Jewish Question
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Author : Alex Bein
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 1990
The Jewish Question written by Alex Bein and has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
This monumental work of Alex Bein, noted scholar and chief librarian of the Israeli National Library, is the most authoritative survey of Jewish culture and Jewish problems in the Diaspora. First published in two massive volumes in German, it is here made available in a single volume in English.
The Papacy And Crusading In Europe 1198 1245
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Author : Rebecca Rist
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2011-11-03
The Papacy And Crusading In Europe 1198 1245 written by Rebecca Rist and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-03 with History categories.
An 'internal' crusade is defined as a holy war authorized by the pope and fought within Christian Europe against those perceived to be foes of Christendom, either to recover property or in defense of the Church or Christians. This study is therefore not concerned with those crusades authorized against Muslim enemies in the East and Spain, nor with crusades authorized against pagans on the borders of Europe. Up to now these crusades have attracted relatively little attention in modern British scholarship. This in spite of their undoubted European-wide significance and an increasing recognition that the period 1198-1245 marks the beginning of a crucial change in papal policy underpinned by canon law. This book discusses the developments through analysis of the extensive source material drawn from unregistered papal letters, placing them firmly in the context of ecclesiastical legislation, canon law, chronicles and other supplementary evidence. It thereby seeks to contribute to our understanding of the complex politics, theology and rhetoric that underlay the papacy's call for crusades within Europe in the first half of the thirteenth century.
Aquinas Political Writings
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Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-10-24
Aquinas Political Writings written by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10-24 with History categories.
A major addition to the Cambridge Texts series of writings by Thomas Aquinas (1225-74).
Government Servant Or Master
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Author : Gerard Radnitzky
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-03-13
Government Servant Or Master written by Gerard Radnitzky and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-13 with Business & Economics categories.
A Collection Of Scarce And Valuable Tracts
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Author : Walter Scott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1814
A Collection Of Scarce And Valuable Tracts written by Walter Scott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1814 with Great Britain categories.
Major Aspects Of Chinese Religion And Philosophy
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Author : Chun Shan
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-06-26
Major Aspects Of Chinese Religion And Philosophy written by Chun Shan and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-26 with Philosophy categories.
The book addresses academically the major aspects of Chinese religion and philosophy, designated as the doctrine of being internal sage and external king. The perspective applied is the integration between western and Chinese scholarship and English readers may gain an easy and interesting access to Chinese intellectual tradition, distinctive itself in a harmony between being holy and secular in any mundane human being to the western tradition of “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s”. By this contrast the intellectual charms and spiritual merits of Chinese tradition will be better appreciated, hence conducive to the much anticipated dialogues between western and eastern civilizations at this globalized yet conflicted world.
The Gates Of Power
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Author : Mikael S. Adolphson
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2000-07-01
The Gates Of Power written by Mikael S. Adolphson and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07-01 with History categories.
The political influence of temples in premodern Japan, most clearly manifested in divine demonstrations—where rowdy monks and shrine servants brought holy symbols to the capital to exert pressure on courtiers—has traditionally been condemned and is poorly understood. In an impressive examination of this intriguing aspect of medieval Japan, the author employs a wide range of previously neglected sources to argue that religious protest was a symptom of political factionalism in the capital rather than its cause. It is his contention that religious violence can be traced primarily to attempts by secular leaders to rearrange religious and political hierarchies to their own advantage, thereby leaving disfavored religious institutions to fend for their accustomed rights and status. In this context, divine demonstrations became the preferred negotiating tool for monastic complexes. For almost three centuries, such strategies allowed a handful of elite temples to maintain enough of an equilibrium to sustain and defend the old style of rulership even against the efforts of the Ashikaga Shogunate in the mid-fourteenth century. By acknowledging temples and monks as legitimate co-rulers, The Gates of Power provides a new synthesis of Japanese rulership from the late Heian (794–1185) to the early Muromachi (1336–1573) eras, offering a unique and comprehensive analysis that brings together the spheres of art, religion, ideas, and politics in medieval Japan.