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In this qualitative study, familial mediation and appropriation processes are examined in a three-generation perspective, taking into account the in-family development of social development processes in two neighboring subregions. Attention is given not only to the continuity, but also to the adaptations and changes of the forms and content of family traditioning. The linking of a generational perspective with Halbwachs' considerations of collective memory opens up several comparison options. In addition to capturing familial, generational and regional similarities and differences, the dynamics of familial tradition can be worked out in this way. Die Frage, welche Inhalte in welcher Form im Generationenverlauf innerfamilial tradiert werden, stellt ein periodisch wiederkehrendes und öffentlich verhandeltes Diskussionsthema dar. In dieser qualitativ angelegten Studie werden familiale Vermittlungs- und Aneignungsprozesse in einer Drei-Generationen-Perspektive unter Berücksichtigung der innerfamilialen Bearbeitung gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungsprozesse in zwei benachbarten Teilregionen untersucht. Hierbei gilt die Aufmerksamkeit nicht nur den Kontinuitäten, sondern auch den Anpassungen und Veränderungen von Formen und Inhalten familialer Tradierung. Die Verknüpfung einer generationellen Perspektive mit Halbwachs’ Überlegungen zum kollektiven Gedächtnis eröffnet dabei mehrere Vergleichsoptionen. Neben der Erfassung familialer, generationeller und regionaler Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede können auf diese Weise die Dynamiken familialer Tradierung herausgearbeitet werden.

Generations. --- Secularization.

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Stephen Strehle is a leading scholar of church/state issues. In this volume, he focuses his rigorous historical analysis and philosophical acumen upon a topic of great interest today and source of cultural wars around the globe-the process of secularization. The book starts with a discussion of early capitalism and how it saw the real world functioning well-enough on its own principles of individual struggle and self-interest, without needing religious or moral principles to meddle in its affairs and eventually dispelling the need for any intelligent design or providential orchestration of life through the work of Darwin. The book then discusses the growth of the secular point of view: how historians dismissed the impact of religion in developing modern culture, how scientists conceived of the universe running on self-sufficient or mechanistic principles, and how people no longer looked to the providential hand of God to explain their suffering. The book ends with a discussion of how the Deist concept of human autonomy became a political policy in America through Jefferson's concept of a wall of separation between church and state and how the US Supreme Court proceeded to dismiss the importance of religion in shaping or justifying the values of the nation and its laws. The book is accessible to most upper-level and graduate students in a wide-variety of disciplines, keeping technical and foreign words to a minimum and leaving scholarly details or debates to its extensive notes.

Secularism. --- Ethics --- Irreligion --- Utilitarianism --- Atheism --- Postsecularism --- Secularization (Theology) --- Religion --- Christianity --- Literature & The Arts

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Religion and Secularity traces the history of the conceptual binary of religion and secularity in Europe and the repercussions it had in other regions and cultures of the Eurasian continent during the age of imperialism and beyond. Twelve authors from a wide range of disciplines, deal in their contributions with the trajectory, the concepts of „religion“ and „secularity/secularization“ took, as well as with the corresponding re-configurations of the religious field in a variety of cultures in Europe, the Near and Middle East, South Asia and East Asia. Taken together, these in-depth studies provide a broad comparative perspective on a penomenon that has been crucial for the development of globalized modernity and its regional interpretations.

Secularism --- RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies --- Ethics --- Irreligion --- Utilitarianism --- Atheism --- Postsecularism --- Secularization (Theology) --- Europe --- Asia --- Religion. --- Religion --- Comparative religion

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How does Nietzsche, as psychologist, envision the future of religion and atheism? While there has been no lack of “psychological” studies that have sought to illuminate Nietzsche's philosophy of religion by interpreting his biography, this monograph is the first comprehensive study to approach the topic through the philosopher's own psychological thinking. The author shows how Nietzsche's critical writings on religion, and especially on religious decline and future possibilities, are informed by his psychological thinking about moods. The author furthermore argues that the clarification of this aspect of the philosopher’s work is essential to interpreting some of the most ambiguous words found in his writings; the words that God is dead. Instead of merely denying the existence of God in a way that leaves a melancholic need for religion or a futile search for replacements intact, Nietzsche arguably envisions the possibility of a radical atheism, which is characterized by a mood of joyful doubt. The examination of this vision should be of great interest to scholars of Nietzsche and of the history of philosophy, but also of relevance to all those who take an interest in the interdisciplinary discourse on secularization.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, --- Religion. --- Nietzsche, Friedrich --- Nietzsche, Friederich --- Friedrich Nietzsche. --- Nietzsche, Friedrich. --- Radikaler Atheismus. --- Stimmung. --- Säkularisierung. --- mood. --- radical atheism. --- secularization. --- PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern.

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Politician Aldo Moro was abducted and killed in 1978 by the terrorist organization Red Brigades. The media then stylized Moro as a «state martyr». The volume deals with the highly topical question concerning the performativity of this concept in the tension between democratic state and terrorism and reconstructs a crucial phase of post-war time policy in Italy on the basis of media sources on the Moro case. What performs a term from Christian antiquity within modern socio-political discourses? What changes has the term "martyr" undergone in European religious and cultural history? On the basis of these questions, the study opens up an interdisciplinary theoretical horizon to understand the role of religious motives in socio-political con-texts. It brings a central new dimension to the secularization debate, which sees secularization as a new configuration of politics and religion.

Christian martyrs --- Political violence --- Political aspects. --- Religious aspects. --- Moro, Aldo, --- Assassination. --- Kidnapping. --- 1945-1976 --- Italy --- Politics and government --- Religion --- Politics --- Media --- Martyrdom --- Secularization --- Representation --- Performativity --- Aldo Moro