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This volume explores key issues in the modern tensions between state and religions by exploring a number of case studies from around the world.

Religion and state --- religion and the state --- sociology --- church-state relations --- public religions --- secularization --- post-secularism

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"Warring Sovereignties explores the battle between religious and non-secular cultures for control of the university in the 1960s. Canon law, with particular emphasis on Oblate norms, was a clear expression of Catholic sovereignty in the university. While this sovereignty conditioned Oblate governance choices, the Government of Ontario became increasingly keen on reforming the University of Ottawa into a non-denominational corporation. Government pressure was coupled with shifting cultural expectations of the university's social role, while an increasingly lay professorate helped put pressure on the Oblates from within. These twin pressures for removing religious control irked the Oblates, who put up stiff resistance, betraying their reticence to the liberalization of higher education. While the government valued social policy, the Oblates focused on educating individuals. Although the Oblates ultimately lost, history is as relevant as ever, and this book comes at a time when social planning is becoming increasingly prevalent within universities."--

Church and college. --- Secularization. --- University of Ottawa --- History. --- Catholic History. --- Church-State relations. --- Higher Education. --- University History.

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Freedom of religion --- United States --- History --- Church history --- Christian ethics --- America --- religion --- religious freedom --- human rights --- American religious history --- law --- politics --- religion in public life --- church-state separation

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At the turn of the twenty-first century, Xiamen's pursuit of World Heritage Site designation from UNESCO stimulated considerable interest in the city's Christian past. History enthusiasts, both Christian and non-Christian, devoted themselves to reinterpreting the legacy of missionaries and challenged official narratives of Christianity's troubled associations with Western imperialism. In this book, Jifeng Liu documents the tension that has inevitably emerged between the established official history and these popular efforts.This volume elucidates the ways in which Christianity has become an integral part of Xiamen, a Chinese city profoundly influenced by Western missionaries. Drawing on extensive interviews, locally produced histories, and observations of historical celebrations, Liu provides an intimate portrait of the people who navigate ideological issues to reconstruct a Christian past, reproduce religious histories, and redefine local power structures in the shadow of the state. Liu makes a compelling argument that a Christian past is being constructed that combines official frameworks, unofficial practices, and nostalgia into social memory, a realm of dynamic negotiation that is neither dominated by the authoritarian state nor characterized by popular resistance. In this way, Negotiating the Christian Past in China illustrates the complexities of memory and missions in shaping the city's cultural landscape, church-state dynamics, and global aspirations.This groundbreaking study assumes a perspective of globalization and localization, in both the past and the present, to better understand Chinese Christianity in a local, national, and global context. It will be welcomed by scholars of religious studies and world Christianity, and by those interested in the church-state relationship in China.

Christianity --- Missions --- Social aspects --- Xiamen (Xiamen Shi, China) --- Church history. --- Asian Christianity. --- Chinese Christianity. --- Chinese politics. --- Chinese religion. --- Church-state relations. --- Memory. --- Missions. --- Xiamen. --- missionaries. --- nostalgia.

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Freedom of religion --- Religion --- Liberté religieuse --- Encyclopedias --- Encyclopedias. --- Encyclopédies --- Liberté religieuse --- Encyclopédies --- encyclopedia --- religious freedom --- religious rights --- church-state relations --- religious groups --- religious tolerance --- religious conflicts --- religious history --- religion and law --- religion and education --- religion and culture