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Taking Wrongs Seriously
This multi-disciplinary collection examines the recent wave of political apologies for acts of past injustice.
La grande peur des catholiques de France
« Je ne reconnais plus mon Église ». C’est par cette phrase que Henri Tincq, l’un des plus grands spécialistes français du catholicisme, commence cet essai qui fera date dans l’histoire politique et sociale de la religion en France. L’Église de France, qui avait si bien su s’assouplir dans la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle, est devenue tout autre. Elle a peur. Elle vit dans la peur, une peur confortée par une incontestable agressivité anti-religieuse et un légitime sentiment de désarroi. Fondé sur une analyse précise et extrêmement bien documentée des nouvelles tendances qui la tirent vers un conservatisme « à droite toute », Henri Tincq fait état de chiffres gl...
Jean-Marie Lustiger
Aron Jean-Marie Lustiger (1926-2007), à la fois entier et double, croyant dévoué et intellectuel engagé, juif de naissance converti au catholicisme, fidèle aux traditions et tourné vers l’avenir, être de recueillement et de terrain, est une énigme. Dans cette biographie née d’une relation de près d’un quart de siècle avec son sujet, et d’après les nombreux témoignages de son entourage et un accès aux archives inédites, Henri Tincq révèle le destin singulier d’un jeune juif devenu cardinal. On y retrouve une enfance foudroyée par la mort de sa mère, Gisèle-Léa, déportée à Auschwitz – un drame qui marquera tous ses choix de vie, humains, sociaux ou religieux...
Holocaust Denial
Holocaust Denial. The Politics of Perfidy provides a graphic and compelling global panorama of past and present variations on this toxic phenomenon. The volume examines right and left wing French negationism, post-Communist Holocaust deniers in Eastern-Europe, the spread of denial to Australia, Canada, South-Africa and even to Japan. Leading scholarly experts also explore the close connection between Holocaust denial, global conspiracy theories, antisemitism and radical anti-Zionism – especially in Iran and the Arab world.
The Secular and the Sacred
What is the place of religion in modern political systems? This volume addresses that question by focusing on ten countries across several geographic areas: Western and East-Central Europe, North America, the Middle East and South Asia. These countries are comparable in the sense that they are committed to constitutional rule, have embraced a more or less secular culture, and have formal guarantees of freedom of religion. Yet in all the cases examined here religion impinges on the political system in the form of legal establishment, semi-legitimation, subvention, and/or selective institutional arrangements and its role is reflected in cultural norms, electoral behaviour and public policies. The relationship between religion and politics comes in many varieties in differing countries, yet all are faced with three major challenges: modernity, democracy and the increasingly multi-ethnic and multi-religious nature of their societies.
Proof
Retired financial institution executive Reahal has penned his debut book--an autobiography centering on an intense flurry of spirit activity over the three-year period that followed a life-changing car accident.
Paradise Lost
This book probes, from various angles, into the forever problematic relationship between the Middle East and Western Europe, between a revitalizing Islamic and a post-Christian civilization. In singling out the intercultural nature of events and clashes, it advances an innovative, interactive style of scholarship.
The History and the Future of the Roman Liturgy
Since the Second Vatican Council, the liturgy has become the source of conflicting opinions. This situation has given rise to disputes that continue to divide those who practice their faith. But what has created this state of affairs? Author Denis Crouan shows how the decisions made by Vatican II that aimed at restoring the Roman rite were presented poorly, applied incorrectly, and often not applied at all. In many places the Mass has been turned into a permanent work-in-progress, in which the objectivity of the liturgy yields to the subjectivity of those who take part in it. Where does the current unwillingness to apply the liturgical rules come from? Why have the directives of the last council been ignored or circumvented? This book offers answers to the questions asked by Catholics who want to understand their liturgy better, so as to put an end to deviant practices that threaten Church unity.
New Media, Old Regimes
New Media, Old Regimes: Case Studies in Comparative Communication Law and Policy, by Lyombe S. Eko, is a collection of novel theoretical perspectives and case studies which illustrate how different communication law regimes conceptualize and apply universal ideals of human rights and freedom of expression to media controversies in real space and cyberspace. Eko’s investigation includes such controversial communication policy topics as North African regimes’ failed use of telecommunications to suppress the social change of the Arab Spring, the Mohammad cartoon controversy in Denmark and France, French and American policy of development and diffusion of the Minitel and the Internet, Americ...
