that the early role of the Catholic and Protestant churches was that of ‘contractor' or ‘deputy' to the government, which limited the churches' capacity to adopt the role of ‘prophet'. Over the ...
This a general account of the school of Mo-tzu, its social basis as a movement of craftsmen, its isolated place in the Chinese tradition, and the nature of its later contributions to logic, ethics, an...
English summary: Increasing freedom in pluralistic societies often goes hand in hand with emerging constraints. This book analyses today's situation and develops new ideas for how the religions can li...
English summary: The religious heterogeneity of the population in early modern Poland-Lithuania was a historical fact that the carriers of political authority had to deal with at all levels of institu...
After the First World War, the Catholic Church was forced on the defensive by totalitarian mass-movements in both Italy and Germany. Fascism and National Socialism challenged Catholicism´s traditio...
In Catholicism, ´;Marian apparitions´ such as those at Lourdes belong to the most spectacular cases of religious mass phenomenon. A prominent case occurred in 1983 in Peñablanca, Chile. Durin...
It has been said that Chinese government was, until the republican period, government through li. Li is the untranslatable word covering appropriate conduct toward others, from the guest rituals of im...
In this book Christoph Stumpf investigates theological influences upon the legal theory of Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), who is regarded by many as the "father of modern international law." The author ana...
Ever get into an argument with a conservative? If you have, you know just how exasperating it can be. Ever wish you had a weapon that could destroy his argument? In his book Political Logic: Defeating...
When Adolf Hitler causes 60 million human deaths by declaring war against an opposition religion, and an unrepentant Nazi Pope and his Down syndrome predecessor cause 60 million human deaths from AIDS...
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