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Religion and politics in Europe and the United States : transnational historical approaches / edited by Volker Depkat and Jürgen Martschukat.

Contributor(s): Depkat, Volker, 1965- | Martschukat, Jürgen
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: xi, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781421408101; 1421408104Subject(s): Religion and politics -- Europe | Religion and politics -- United States | Europe -- Politics and government | United States -- Politics and governmentBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Religion and politics in Europe and the United States / Volker Depkat and Jürgen Martschukat -- State formation -- Commitment and competition : a religion enlightenment in Revolutionary America / Frank Kelleter -- The lingering death of the most Christian king : pious monarchs, secular states, and divided societies in Europe, 1814-1851 / Michael Broers -- Punishment -- Multiple sanctions : crime, punishment and ideology in early America / Daniel A. Cohen -- The religious discourse on criminal law in England, 1600-1800 : from a theology of trial to a theology of punishment / André Krischer -- Between moral certainty and morally certain : the religious debate over the death penalty in the United States / Anthony Santoro -- Science -- Fraternal twins : American science and American religion / James Gilbert -- Science, religion, and the modern state : a view from the history of science / Ronald E. Doel -- Science versus religion : the process of secularization in the GDR as a specific response to the challenges of modernity / Monika Wohlrab-Sahr and Thomas Schmidt-Lux -- Identity and politics -- Jewish identity in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe / Klaus Hödl -- Cultural and political images of American Jews in the mid-twentieth century / Michelle Mart -- Violence and world affairs -- Religious violence in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American history? / Michael Hochgeschwender -- New wars, old motives? on the role of religion in international relations / Gerlinde Groitl -- "Heaven is under our feet" : contextualizing faith, religion, and politics in the post-9/11 era / Voker Depkat and Jürgen Martschukat.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Religion and politics in Europe and the United States / Volker Depkat and Jürgen Martschukat -- Part I : State formation -- Commitment and competition : a religion enlightenment in Revolutionary America / Frank Kelleter -- The lingering death of the most Christian king : pious monarchs, secular states, and divided societies in Europe, 1814-1851 / Michael Broers -- Part II : Punishment -- Multiple sanctions : crime, punishment and ideology in early America / Daniel A. Cohen -- The religious discourse on criminal law in England, 1600-1800 : from a theology of trial to a theology of punishment / André Krischer -- Between moral certainty and morally certain : the religious debate over the death penalty in the United States / Anthony Santoro -- Part III : Science -- Fraternal twins : American science and American religion / James Gilbert -- Science, religion, and the modern state : a view from the history of science / Ronald E. Doel -- Science versus religion : the process of secularization in the GDR as a specific response to the challenges of modernity / Monika Wohlrab-Sahr and Thomas Schmidt-Lux -- Part IV : Identity and politics -- Jewish identity in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe / Klaus Hödl -- Cultural and political images of American Jews in the mid-twentieth century / Michelle Mart -- Part V : Violence and world affairs -- Religious violence in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American history? / Michael Hochgeschwender -- New wars, old motives? on the role of religion in international relations / Gerlinde Groitl -- "Heaven is under our feet" : contextualizing faith, religion, and politics in the post-9/11 era / Voker Depkat and Jürgen Martschukat.

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