Religion, Federalism, and the Struggle for Public Life Cases from Germany, India, and America

by Everett, William Johnson

• ISBN13: 9780195103748
• ISBN10: 0195103742
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-11-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Through a comparative study of India, Germany, and the U.S., Everettexamines the roles of religious traditions in the development of modern federalrepublicanism. He argues that a better comparative grasp of political andreligious dynamics is essential to our understanding of the establishment,sustenance, and development of federal republican governance in both Western andnon-Western cultures.

Table of Contents

Introduction	3	(7)
The Religious Cradle of Federal Republicanism	5	(2)
The Frame of Inquiry	7	(1)
The Plan of the Book	8	(2)
ONE Envisioning the Engagement	10	(18)
Religion and Federal Republicanism	11	(9)
The Concept of Covenantal Publicity	20	(2)
Religion and Political Order in Sociological Perspective	22	(4)
Summary	26	(2)
TWO The Churches and Germany's "Peaceful Revolution" of 1989-90	28	(35)
Key Historical Considerations	28	(7)
The Church in the Revolution of 1989-90	35	(18)
Key Issues in the German Experience	53	(6)
Trust and Reconciliation in a Covenantal Public	59	(2)
Covenantal Publicity and the Partial Revolution	61	(2)
THREE Religious Organization and Constitutional Justice in India	63	(42)
The Ancient Matrix of Religion and Governance	64	(5)
The "Historic" Religions: Islam and Christianity	69	(5)
The Drive for Independence and Constitutional Order	74	(3)
The Federal Constitution of 1950	77	(2)
Redressing Past Inequities: Compensatory Discrimination and Soosai the Cobbler	79	(7)
From Religious Tutelage to a Common Civil Code: The Case of Shah Bano	86	(6)
Ecclesiology and Constitutional Order: The United Basel Mission Church Case	92	(7)
Critical Issues in India's Struggle for Covenantal Publicity	99	(6)
FOUR Sacred Lands and Religious Assemblies in America	105	(44)
The Molding of the American Experience	106	(11)
Summary	117	(1)
Methodism and the Quandaries of Republican Federation: The Pacific Homes Case	118	(16)
Sacred Lands and Native Peoples in Federal Contestation	134	(15)
FIVE Assessing the Engagement, Evaluating the Inquiry	149	(22)
The Critical Role of Ecclesiology	151	(2)
Ecclesiology and the Federal-Republican Struggle	153	(8)
Roles of Religion in the Federal-Republican Project	161	(3)
Religion, Reconciliation, and the Republican Struggle	164	(3)
The Concept of Covenantal Publicity: An Evaluation	167	(2)
An Afterword	169	(2)
Notes	171	(26)
Index	197