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The Spirit of Populism
This compilation explores the significance of religion for the controversies stirred up by populist politics in European and American contexts, engaging Jewish, Christian, and Islamic political thought. Moving beyond essentialist definitions of religion, the contributions offer critical interpretations and constructive interventions for political theology today.
The Claim to Christianity
The far right is on the rise across Europe, pushing a battle scenario in which Islam clashes with Christianity as much as Christianity clashes with Islam. From the margins to the mainstream, far-right protesters and far-right politicians call for the defence of Europe’s Christian culture. The far right claims Christianity. This book investigates contemporary far-right claims to Christianity. Ulrich Schmiedel and Hannah Strømmen examine the theologies that emerge in the far right across Europe, concentrating on Norway, Germany and Great Britain. They explore how churches in these three countries have been complicit, complacent or critical of the far right, sometimes intentionally and sometimes unintentionally. Ultimately, Schmiedel and Strømmen encourage a creative and collaborative theological response. To counter the far right, Christianity needs to be practiced in an open and open-ended way which calls Christians into contact with Muslims.
What is Intergenerational Justice?
Can people alive now have duties to future generations, the unborn millions? If so, what do we owe them? What does “justice” mean in an intergenerational context, both between people who will coexist at some point, and between generations that will never overlap? In this book, Axel Gosseries provides a forensic examination of these issues, comparing and analyzing various views about what we owe our successors. He discusses links between justice and sustainability, and looks at the implications of the fact that our successors’ preferences are heavily influenced by what we will actually leave them and by the education they receive. He also points to how these theoretical considerations apply to real-life issues, ranging from pension reform and Brexit to biodiversity and the climate crisis. He ends by outlining how intergenerational considerations may translate into institutional design. Anyone grappling with the dilemmas of our obligations to the future, from students and scholars to policy makers and active citizens, will find this an invaluable theoretical and practical guide to this moral and political minefield.
Religion and Migration
This volume explores religious discourses and practices of hospitality in the context of migration. It articulates the implied ambivalences and even contradictions as well as the potential to contribute to a more just world through social interconnection with others. The book features contributors from diverse national, denominational, cultural, and racial backgrounds. Their essays reveal a dichotomy of hospitality between guest and host, while tackling the meaning of home or the loss of it, interrogating both the peril and promise of the relationship between religion, chiefly Christianity, and hospitality, and focusing on the role of migrants' vulnerability and agency, by drawing from empir...
Öffentliches Christentum im europäischen Ernstfall
Die Studie untersucht die Rolle der Kirchen in der jüngeren Phase der europäischen Einigung. Den Ausgangspunkt bilden die Verfassungs-, Finanz- und Migrationskrisen im 21. Jahrhundert. Unter dem Eindruck dieser Krisen brachten die Kirchen ihre Haltung zu Europa deutlicher als zuvor zum Ausdruck. In neun Fallstudien werden Katholizismus, Protestantismus und Orthodoxie im kontextuellen Verhältnis zur EU untersucht. Die Studie plädiert für eine europäisierte Variante eines öffentlichen Christentums. Leitbegriffe dafür bietet der konziliare Prozess mit der geprägten Begriffstrias »Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und Bewahrung der Schöpfung«. Sie markieren die Relevanz eines öffentlichen Chri...
Fremde Bürger
Kaum ein Thema ist derzeit so umstritten wie die Migrationspolitik. 65 Millionen Menschen sind weltweit auf der Flucht, mindestens 30 000 Menschen kamen in den letzten fünfzehn Jahren beim Versuch, das Mittelmeer zu überqueren, ums Leben. Unterdessen gewinnen Populisten global an Einfluss und fordern Abschottung. Welche Verantwortung hat die Europäische Union, die sich auf die Menschenrechte beruft? Welche Rolle können die christlichen Kirchen angesichts gegenwärtiger Herausforderungen einnehmen? Lukas David Meyer unterscheidet in seiner Studie zwischen Moral, Recht und Politik und analysiert das komplexe Themenfeld mit Blick auf die europäische Ebene. Der Autor plädiert für durchlässige Grenzen und einen christlichen Kosmopolitismus, der sich ökumenisch und kontextsensibel für politische Lösungen engagiert.
Talking Back
Essays that discuss the portrayal of Jewish women in American culture.
Innovations in Enterprise Information Systems Management and Engineering
This volume presents the revised and peer reviewed contributions of the ‘ERP Future 2015’ conference held in Munich, Germany on November 16-17, 2015. The ERP Future 2015 Research conference is a scientific platform for research on enterprise information systems in general and specifically on core topics like business process management (BPM), business intelligence (BI) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Besides the scientific community the event also addresses businesses developing, implementing and using enterprise information systems. The 7 full papers and 5 short papers accepted for ERP were selected from 23 submissions. The papers consider topics in education in enterprise systems; business process management; enterprise systems and solution providers; and IT-trends.
Principles of Justice and Real-World Climate Politics
There is a major divide between the work of normative theorists and concrete climate action (or inaction) politics and policies. In this volume, authors tackle the strained relationships between principles of justice and climate politics by responding to real-world climate politics and policies, offering proposals and analyses that take concerns of feasibility seriously, and identifying immediate justice and feasibility concerns with recent proposals for climate action. Contributors look at questions of feasibility as they relate to specific international institutions like the IPCC and UNFCCC, and widely discussed principles of climate justice, including backward-looking principles like polluter pays and forward-looking principles like ability to pay. Others explore the feasibility hurdles and justice concerns that challenge popular mitigation proposals. These international and interdisciplinary contributors re-think the ways the principles of climate justice should be applied, speaking to students, research scholars, activists, and policymakers.
