Bedeutung der Civil Religion als Integrationsideologie in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika PDF Download

Author: Tim Stahnke
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3638267431
Category : Political Science
Languages : de
Pages : 24

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Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Politik - Region: USA, Note: 1,3, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität - Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg (Wirtschafts- und Organisationswissenschaften - Institut für Politikwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Das politische System der USA, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die USA fällt durch die starke multikulturelle Durchmischung ihrer Gesellschaft auf. Als klassisches Einwanderungsland hat sich in den USA seit der Landung der Mayflower im Jahr 1620 ein gesellschaftlicher und religiöser Pluralismus entwickelt, der auf der Welt seines Gleichen sucht. Unterschiedlichste ethnische Gruppierungen mit weit über 200 verschiedenen religiösen Glaubensrichtungen unterschiedlichster Art scheinen sich zu einer Nation und einem Staat zusammengefunden zu haben. Bei dieser starken Segmentierung drängt sich natürlich die Frage auf, was diese Nation zusammenhält. Wieso empfindet sich der Amerikaner als Amerikaner und was verbindet ihn mit seinem Mitbürger anderer Herkunft und andersartigem Glauben? Als Integrationsideologie für die Nation kann auf Grund des Pluralismus keine spezifische Glaubensbezeugung herhalten, es entstand der Begriff der „Civil Religion“. „Civil Religion“ als eine Art weltliche Religion, als amerikanische Ideologie, die auf bestimmten Glaubenssätzen, auf Ritualen und Symbolen beruht. Die „Civil Religion“ hat dazu geführt, dass die amerikanische Kultur und Politik durchsetzt ist von religiöser Rhetorik und Symbolik. Ob und in wieweit diese sogenannte „Civil Religion“ als Integrationsbasis, als gemeinsamer Wertekonsens dient und wie sie sich mit dem Grundsatz der Trennung von Staat und Ki rche verträgt, soll in dieser Hausarbeit erörtert werden. Zunächst wird die Bedeutung des Begriffes „Civil Religion“ näher beleuchtet. Dazu wird zunächst auf Jean-Jacques Rousseau eingegangen, der schon um 1760 in seinem vierten Buch des „Du contrat social“ das Phänomen der „réligion civile“ beschrieb, wobei viele der von ihm beschriebenen Merkmale auch heute noch auf den Begriff „Civil Religion“ zutreffen. Danach wird erläutert, wie Alexis de Toqueville in seinem Werk „De la Démocratie en Amérique“, welches er nach seiner Amerikareise im Jahre 1831 verfasste, als Erster die „Civil Religion“ in den USA beschreibt. Nach der Abhandlung dieser beiden Klassiker soll der Be griff „Civil Religion“ aus heutiger wissenschaftlicher Sicht beschrieben und dargestellt werden.

Author: Roger Griffin
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 3838256743
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 521

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In the opinion of some historians the era of fascism ended with the deaths of Mussolini and Hitler. Yet the debate about its nature as a historical phenomenon and its value as a term of historical analysis continues to rage with ever greater intensity, each major attempt to resolve it producing different patterns of support, dissent, and even hostility, from academic colleagues. Nevertheless, a number of developments since 1945 not only complicate the methodological and definitional issues even further, but make it ever more desirable that politicians, journalists, lawyers, and the general public can turn to "experts" for a heuristically useful and broadly consensual definition of the term. These developments include: the emergence of a highly prolific European New Right, the rise of radical right populist parties, the flourishing of ultra-nationalist movements in the former Soviet empire, the radicalization of some currents of Islam and Hinduism into potent political forces, and the upsurge of religious terrorism. Most monographs and articles attempting to establish what is meant by fascism are written from a unilateral authoritative perspective, and the intense academic controversy the term provokes has to be gleaned from reviews and conference discussions. The uniqueness of this book is that it provides exceptional insights into the cut-and-thrust of the controversy as it unfolds on numerous fronts simultaneously, clarifying salient points of difference and moving towards some degree of consensus. Twenty-nine established academics were invited to engage with an article by Roger Griffin, one of the most influential theorists in the study of generic fascism in the Anglophone world. The resulting debate progressed through two 'rounds' of critique and reply, forming a fascinating patchwork of consensus and sometimes heated disagreement. In a spin-off from the original discussion of Griffin's concept of fascism, a second exchange documented here focuses on the issue of fascist ideology in contemporary Russia. This collection is essential reading for all those who realize the need to provide the term 'fascism' with theoretical rigor, analytical precision, and empirical content despite the complex issues it raises, and for any specialist who wants to participate in fascist studies within an international forum of expertise. The book will change the way in which historians and political scientists think about fascism, and make the debate about the threat it poses to infant democracies like Russia more incisive not just for academics, but for politicians, journalists, and the wider public.

Author: Antje Flüchter
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319097407
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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The purpose of this volume is to identify and analyze the mechanisms and processes through which concepts and institutions of transcultural phenomena gain and are given momentum. Applied to a range of cases, including examples drawn from ancient Greece and modern India, the early modern Portuguese presence in China and politics of elite-mass dynamics in the People’s Republic of China, the book provides a template for the study of transcultural dynamics over time. Besides the epochal range, the papers in this volume illustrate the thematic diversity assembled under the umbrella of the Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context.” Drawing from both the humanities and social sciences, stretching across several world areas and centuries, the book is an interdisciplinary work, aptly reflected in the collaboration of its editors: a historian and political scientist.

Author: Paul Steege
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521864968
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 31

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This book is a history of everyday life and explains how and why Berlin became the symbolic capital of the Cold War. Paul Steege anchors his account of this emerging global conflict in the terrain of a city literally shattered by World War II.

Author: Anna Zafiris
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3640525558
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 25

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Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1, Ruhr-University of Bochum (Englisches Seminar), course: The Culture of the American Civil War, language: English, abstract: We are fortunate to have a lot of information about Schurz’s life and political career in the United States from his own pen – on the one side his Lebenserinnerungen (Reminiscences) and on the other side different letters he has written to his wife or his former fellow student Theodor Petrasch. But we also have to be careful with using these sources of information because one has to keep some aspects in mind. First, although Schurz claims that he has written down his Reminiscences only on request of his children and therefore only for them and his closer family and friends, he might still have had in the back of his mind that it would be published for a much larger audience as it was originally supposed to be. 1 Second, the same thought applies to the letters he has written to different people. He might already have know that he would turn so famous that his letters will be published and so he might have written down exactly the thoughts and stories the reader nowadays should read and remember. He might have reproduced only the world view the reader should get. I do not want to state that this compellingly is the fact, but one has to keep these assumptions in the back of his mind when relating to Schurz’s letters and Reminiscences. It is also important to know that all of the letters Schurz had received and written to his wife during his military service were lost in a fire. So we do not have as much information about that time as we do have about the time before and after that. In the following pages I want to take a closer look on the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and Carl Schurz. Both men influenced each other in a way that is not negligible. It was a complex relationship in which both men respected each other with similar aims and the same ability to persuade and inspire an audience. They also had their differences and especially these differences are interesting and let us gain an insight into the way the two friends coped with each other. After the most important facts about the lives of Lincoln and Schurz I will take a closer look at the first meeting of the two, the Presidential Election Campaign in which Schurz was extremely involved, the time after the election with Lincoln in office and the development of his friendship with Schurz, the Civil War in which Schurz took over a command and acted as correspondent from the front to Lincoln, and last Lincoln’s assassination and its impact on Schurz and the American people.

Author: J. Muller
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403982546
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263

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The contributors of this volume seek to answer such questions as: 'How did the Germans overcome 'Germanic Ideology', or did they?' 'Why is there no libertarianism in Germany?' 'What do German conservatives wish to conserve?'. Emphasizing shared patterns of thought, the contributors trace the contours of political thought in a divided nation with a difficult past, and ion the shadow of the culture and political values of the United States.

Author: Joseph R. Fornieri
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780875803159
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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Abraham Lincoln's Political Faith sheds new light on how the Great Emancipator's personal trust in a living God shaped his vision for a new America."--Jacket.

Author: Otto Dann
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0907628974
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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It has been almost a truism of European history that the French Revolution gave a great stimulus to the growth of modern nationalism. This collection of original essays in English sets out to examine in detail, for the first time, in what ways and for what reasons the era of the Revolution did see major developments in this respect in various parts of Europe.

Author: Wilson J. Moses
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814755240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267

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Classical Black Nationalism traces the evolution of black nationalist thought through several phases, from its "proto-nationalistic" phase in the late 1700s through a hiatus in the 1830s, through its flourishing in the 1850s, its eventual eclipse in the 1870s, and its resurgence in the Garvey movement of the 1920s. Moses incorporates a wide range of black nationalist perspectives, including African American capitalists Paul Cuffe and James Forten, Robert Alexander Young from his "Ethiopian Manifesto", and more well-known voices such as those of Marcus Garvey, W. E. B. Du Bois, and others.

Author: Tyler Anbinder
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195089227
Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 357

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Although the United States has always portrayed itself as a sanctuary for the world's victim's of poverty and oppression, anti-immigrant movements have enjoyed remarkable success throughout American history. None attained greater prominence than the Order of the Star Spangled Banner, a fraternal order referred to most commonly as the Know Nothing party. Vowing to reduce the political influence of immigrants and Catholics, the Know Nothings burst onto the American political scene in 1854, and by the end of the following year they had elected eight governors, more than one hundred congressmen, and thousands of other local officials including the mayors of Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Chicago. After their initial successes, the Know Nothings attempted to increase their appeal by converting their network of lodges into a conventional political organization, which they christened the "American Party." Recently, historians have pointed to the Know Nothings' success as evidence that ethnic and religious issues mattered more to nineteenth-century voters than better-known national issues such as slavery. In this important book, however, Anbinder argues that the Know Nothings' phenomenal success was inextricably linked to the firm stance their northern members took against the extension of slavery. Most Know Nothings, he asserts, saw slavery and Catholicism as interconnected evils that should be fought in tandem. Although the Know Nothings certainly were bigots, their party provided an early outlet for the anti-slavery sentiment that eventually led to the Civil War. Anbinder's study presents the first comprehensive history of America's most successful anti-immigrant movement, as well as a major reinterpretation of the political crisis that led to the Civil War.