Bukharan Jews and the dynamics of global Judaism
Nationalities Papers, Ahead of Print.
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00905992.2014.929239?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R
Transitional justice in post-communist Romania: the politics of memory
Nationalities Papers, Ahead of Print.
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00905992.2014.929243?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R
The Political Theology of The Morpeth Review, 1927–1934
The interwar years saw the initiation of a number of important periodicals that reflected the emerging vitality of public intellectual life in Australia. One such publication was The Morpeth Review, a quarterly that appeared between the years 1927 and 1934. Edited by three Anglican intellectuals — E. H. Burgmann, Roy Lee, and A. P. Elkin — it included contributions from prominent historians, political scientists, anthropologists, cultural critics, and theologians. Though its range of concerns was broad, it was guided by a basic vision of intellectual and social life that aimed at reconciling the conflicting elements of modernity. Such conflicts included the divide between the world of work and the family, the divide between classes, between nations, and between church and state, or more broadly, between the secular and the religious spheres. This article will suggest that in the endeavour to reconcile such competing elements The Morpeth Review expressed a kind of political theology that was modernist in inspiration (welcoming science and the critical consciousness) and drew on several overlapping traditions of thought including liberal Anglicanism, Christian socialism, and British idealism, all of which rejected the modern tendency to compartmentalise life and with it to relegate religion to the private sphere.
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A Secular Australia? Ideas, Politics and the Search for Moral Order in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Australia
This article argues that the relationship between the religious and the secular in Australia is complex and that there has been no simple transition from a religious society to a secular one. It argues that the emergence of apparently secular moral orders in the second half of the nineteenth century involved what Steven D. Smith has termed the “smuggling in” of ideas and beliefs which are religious in nature. This can be seen clearly in the economic debates of the second half of the nineteenth century in Australia in which a Free Trade based on an optimistic natural theology battled with a faith in Protection which had powerful roots in a secular form of Calvinism espoused by David Syme. The article concludes with an analysis of twentieth-century historian W. K. Hancock's comparison of the medieval commonwealth and Machiavelli, concluding that Hancock found both the Free Trade and the Protectionist visions of moral order to be inadequate.
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“… but in its proper place. …”Religion, Enlightenment, and Australia’s Secular Heritage: The Case of Robert Lowe in Colonial NSW 1842–1850
Over the last few decades historians have been rediscovering Australia's religious heritage, often in response to entrenched narratives depicting Australia's social, intellectual, and political history as a triumph of secular enlightenment over vestiges of Old World partnerships of religion, state, and society. That Australia has a rich secular heritage is indisputable, but to draw a sharp distinction between the “secular” and the “religious” is anachronistic and misguided, and any attempt to tell the story of Australia's secular heritage must acknowledge that the “secular” often found its justification flowing from more general religious premises grounded in enlightenment ideals such as rational religion, rational piety, and general Christianity. Indeed, when liberal democracy was emerging in the colonies the “secular” had to be justified in terms acceptable to the public square and these terms were broadly religious. Robert Lowe is an apt case study for divining the nature of the secular in colonial Australia, for his thought and political activity show the subtle and complex way that ideals such as “enlightenment,” “religion,” and “secular” entered into dialogue rather than warfare with one another and contributed to social institutions judged suitable for a fledgling pluralist nation.
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Now You See It: Now You Don’t! Issues of Secularity and Secularisation in Publicly Funded Elementary Schools in the Australian Colonies during the Middle Third of the Nineteenth Century
This article opens and ends with reference to two interlinked studies: Charles Taylor's 2007 A Secular Age, and his 2011 Dilemmas and Connections: Selected Essays. These are often magnificent but sometimes flawed works. This article aims to explore the implications and ramifications of Taylor's failure to discuss, in either study, nineteenth-century provision for secular instruction by government elementary schools in Ireland, Great Britain, and the Australian colonies. What these did or did not mean should have been grist to Taylor's mill, especially since, in these places (and other English-speaking countries, such as the United States, Canada, and New Zealand) “secular instruction” provisions soon attracted energetic imputations of infidelity and atheism, as well as support. “Secular Instruction” Acts in two Australian colonies (Victoria in 1872, South Australia in 1851 and 1875) are here considered in detail, for these, especially the Victorian, were interpreted by some then and more recently as emphatically secular (in the sense of “Godless”). My argument is that this emphatic secularity, for emphatic it often was, mostly should not be read as “Godless” but as an often Protestant-inflected statutory expression — of the kind usefully defined — by reference to an ideal type — as “Civic Protestantism.”
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Nations: the long history and deep roots of political ethnicity and nationalism
Nationalities Papers, Ahead of Print.
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00905992.2014.929238?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R
Multinational federalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nationalities Papers, Ahead of Print.
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00905992.2014.929237?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R
“Comme les sauterelles sur un champ de maïs mûr”: the Belgian unions and alien labour in hotels and restaurants in the 1930s
This paper examines how the traditional seasonal labour of foreign hospitality workers in Belgian cosmopolitan tourist resorts became an issue in the course of the 1930s. As a result of the lobbying by trade unions a protectionist immigration policy was implemented in Belgium from 1931 onwards. An exception to the ban on immigration of foreign labour was constituted by the few hundred highly skilled Italian and French hospitality workers who arrived each season in the tourist resorts, since the employers claimed that the national workforce lacked the qualifications required for service in high-class hotels. The socialist and Christian unions of hospitality workers fiercely denounced the hiring of foreign staff in years of high unemployment. Stirred by the emotional appeals of nationalist organisations, who jealously wished to safeguard Belgium for the Belgians, the socialist and Christian unions reproduced this nationalist and highly xenophobic discourse. The unions’ limited power in a sector that was difficult to organise provides an explanation for the little resistance they offered to the nationalist rhetoric. However, throughout the 1930s, the Belgian authorities continued to make an exception to blocked immigration for such seasonal labour migrants.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Category Original
- Pages 355-377
- DOI 10.1484/J.FOOD.5.102117
- Authors
- Frank Caestecker
- Patricia Van den Eeckhout
- Journal Food and History
- Print ISSN 1780-3187
- Journal Volume Volume 11
- Journal Issue Volume 11, Number 2 / 2013
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