scholarly journals Christmas, Crescents, and Crosses: When Is Symbolic Religious Establishment Permissible?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aurélia Bardon
Keyword(s):  
Religious Establishment

Nationalism, Not Islam

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faridullah Bezhan
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
World War ◽  
Ruling Elite ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
Religious Establishment

Wish Zalmiyan or the ‘Awaken Youth Party’ (AYP) was the first political party to operate openly in Afghanistan. It enjoyed support from the intelligentsia and the monarchical regime. The AYP’s key ideological elements were nationalism and constitutionalism. While they made the party popular with a segment of the ruling elite and the intelligentsia, they brought resentment from the religious establishment for which Islam was the only ideology to be followed and the Quran the only constitution the country needed. This chapter examines how, in the aftermath of World War II, most members of the urban Afghan educated class leaned towards nationalism and constitutionalism as the driving forces for new political dynamics and the progress of the country. It explores what type of nationalism the Wish Zalmiyan party was advocating.

scholarly journals Separation of Church and State, American Exceptionalism, and the Contemporary Social Moment: Viewing Church–State Separation from the Priority of Slavery

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Joseph Prud'homme
Keyword(s):  
Church And State ◽  
American Exceptionalism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Antebellum South ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Institutional Forces ◽  
Governmental Institutions ◽  
Religious Establishment ◽  
The Relationship

The contemporary social moment in the United States has affirmed the critical importance of racial justice, and especially claims to justice informed by the contributions of structural and institutional forces connected with the nation’s original sin of slavery. In this paper, I examine the contributions of strict church–state separationism to the maintenance of slavery in the antebellum South in comparison to the contributions various forms of religious establishment made to the successful abolition of slavery in the United Kingdom and the British Empire. Developing a deeper historical understanding of the ways the relationship between religious and governmental institutions influenced the abolition and maintenance of slavery can assist the contemporary quest for racial justice.

Anglicans and Dissenters in Georgia, 1758–1777

1938 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marjorie Daniel
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Religious Conflicts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Religious Sects ◽  
Religious Establishment ◽  
Religious Nature ◽  
Revolutionary Period

Georgia in the revolutionary period, not unlike many other provinces along the American seaboard, lacked social solidarity and unity. The lack was not the result of great ethnic diversity alone or of the disharmony arising from economic inequalities and political disagreement. To racial variety and divergences attributable to economic and political conditions were added many differences in customs and modes of living and in traditional thought which could be ascribed, in part at least, to the numerous religious sects attracted to the province by the liberal provisions of its charter. The religious conflicts of the period are best seen in the struggle over the establishment of the Church of England and in the relations of the dissenters with the civil government and with the religious establishment. The question of external ecclesiastical control, issues and grievances of a religious nature which appeared in the revolutionary argument, and the alignment of the sects on the question of open conflict with Great Britain, are interesting and important aspects of the whole religious situation. It is with these phases of the religious history of Georgia during two decades that this study is largely concerned.

Challenge and Conformity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Lived Religion ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Religious Establishment ◽  
The Impact

Orthodox Jewish women are increasingly seeking new ways to express themselves religiously, and important changes have occurred in consequence in their self-definition and the part they play in the religious life of their communities. Drawing on surveys and interviews across different Orthodox groups in London, as well as on the author's own experience of active participation over many years, this is a study that analyses its findings in the context of related developments in Israel and the USA. Sympathetic attention is given to women's creativity and sophistication as they struggle to develop new modes of expression that will let their voices be heard; at the same time, the inevitable points of conflict with the male-dominated religious establishment are examined and explained. There is a focus, too, on the impact of innovations in ritual: these include not only the creation of women-only spaces and women's participation in public practices traditionally reserved for men, but also new personal practices often acquired on study visits to Israel which are replacing traditions learned from family members. The book is a study of how new norms of lived religion have emerged in London, influenced by both the rise of feminism and the backlash against it, and also by women's new understanding of their religious roles.

“Is Not This a Paradox?” Public Morality and the Unitarian Defense of State-Supported Religion in Massachusetts, 1806–1833

2013 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-265
Author(s):  
Nathan S. Rives
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Public Morality ◽  
Religious Establishment

The outcome of the legal and constitutional controversy leading to the fall of the state-supported religious establishment in Massachusetts followed a schism in the Congregationalist churches. In that controversy, Unitarians defended religious taxation as an expedient means to advance their desired ends of a public morality rooted in theological liberalism.

XVII. An Account of the Prior's Chapel at Ely, by William Wilkins, Jun. Esq. F. A. S. in a Letter to the Rev. John Brand, Secretary

Archaeologia ◽  
1803 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 105-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Wilkins
Keyword(s):  
Dwelling House ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Religious Establishment

I have herewith sent you the drawings of the Prior's Chapel at Ely, which I mentioned to you when I had last the pleasure of seeing you. These drawings are accompanied with an explanation and a few remarks on the style of building, which I have to request you will do me the honour to present to the Society in my name, at the first convenient opportunity. The history of this Chapel you will find comprised in a few sentences, as indeed must be the case of all which are private, and have no religious establishment. The merit therefore of the whole, if it have any, will consist in the drawings, and in those I fear only, considering them as accurate delineations from the original. The few observations subjoined, you will be at liberty to present or not, according to your own opinion of them; and I beg you will not be scrupulous in rejecting them, if you think they approach too near to those which have already been made on the subject. The Chapel you will find is now a dwelling-house, and not much visited by strangers. During my stay at Ely, I was introduced to its present possessor, and had many opportunities of seeing it.

scholarly journals A Reflection of the Spiritual Leadership’s Status in a Transfer of Ritual Process

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Rachel Sharaby
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Leadership ◽  
Spiritual Leaders ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Religious Establishment ◽  
Ritual Process

This article presents a phenomenon of ritual dynamics, which Langer et al. (2006) called “transfer of ritual,” and the manner in which it influenced the “transfer of spiritual leadership.” The article focuses on old spiritual leaders (kessoch) of immigrants from Ethiopia in Israel and their role in the Seged ritual. The Seged is a pilgrimage holiday of the Jews of Ethiopia, celebrated on November 29. It is a day of fasting, purification and prayer, during which the spiritual leaders read from the Torah and prayed for redemption. The findings show that since the early 1980s, the kessoch, who were excluded by the religious establishment, were pushed aside from their status in determining the meaning and character of the Seged. Since the 1990s, young social-political leaders, who were the dominant stream in the community, led changes in the Seged. The intergenerational role inversion in conducting the Seged had significant implications for the contents of the ritual, its structure and the kessoch’s status.

scholarly journals The Travails of Women and Girls in Northern Nigeria: A Human Rights Issue

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adah Ogbe
Keyword(s):  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Early Marriage ◽  
Northern Nigeria ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Education Fund ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
The Government ◽  
Religious Establishment ◽  
Condition Of Women

The vulnerability of women and girls in Northern Nigeria is likened to an ‘endangered species’ that struggles daily to survive. That region of the country is notorious in negativities: poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, insecurity and now, blatant abuse of health and reproductive rights of women and girls. This article, hence, exposes the precarity that pervades the region and highlights the factors above i.e., poverty, illiteracy, unemployment etc., and how women and girls have been made escape goats by the socio-cultural, economic and religious establishment in Northern Nigeria. Using statistics and scholarly findings of researchers and literature, the article articulates these factors, which include but not limited to, abuse of the health and reproductive right of women and girls, illiteracy and early marriage and insecurity. The article concludes by calling the government of Nigeria to treat the condition of women and girls in the Northeast as an emergency, by setting up structures headed by or headed by shared leadership roles of women, that will investigate their situations and proffer solutions. An Empowerment Education Fund should be created to provide accessibility for compulsory primary, secondary and even tertiary education to the girl child in Northern Nigeria.

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