Handbook of the Sociology of Religion

Mapping the Moral Order 345 populate the same moral order space as people attracted to the therapeutic utopias of the 1970s and, ...

346 Fred Kniss important for some immigrants than it was in their country of origin. Again, location within the moral order may ...

Mapping the Moral Order 347 changes. It permits interesting distinctions to be drawn between different issues and groups, distin ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Civil Society and Civil Religion as Mutually Dependent N. J. Demerath III In a world teeming with violence, ...

Civil Society and Civil Religion as Mutually Dependent 349 First, the notion of “civil society” introduced earlier goes beyond r ...

350 N. J. Demerath III research has indicated that the so-called American culture war is a hyperbolic misrep- resentation of the ...

Civil Society and Civil Religion as Mutually Dependent 351 discourse leaves a gnawing sense of discomfort. After all, isn’t this ...

352 N. J. Demerath III At the same time, today’s religious right has departed considerably from the agenda of mutual tolerance t ...

Civil Society and Civil Religion as Mutually Dependent 353 And yet there are two major difficulties with the scenario.First, civ ...

354 N. J. Demerath III no society that does not experience the need at regular intervals to maintain and strengthen the collecti ...

Civil Society and Civil Religion as Mutually Dependent 355 On the one hand, our civil religion may not function quite the way it ...

356 N. J. Demerath III emphasizing “with liberty and justice for all.” Of course, this is a major change from Bellah’s overarchi ...

Civil Society and Civil Religion as Mutually Dependent 357 in Turkey, or a national commitment to a welfare state in, say, Swede ...

358 N. J. Demerath III its conflict with the political situation of the moment. And in virtually every instance in which cultura ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Religion and Violence Social Processes in Comparative Perspective John R. Hall RELIGION AND VIOLENCE: SOCIAL ...

360 John R. Hall framed conflicts became displaced in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by so- cial struggles that played o ...

Religion and Violence 361 Defining Violence Defining violence has long been a vexed problem, and it is only exacerbated for a cu ...

362 John R. Hall extreme violence may come as an act of escalation in relation to other, less visible violence. In situations wh ...

Religion and Violence 363 that may have religious dimensions, but can be better explained in other terms. The general analysis o ...

364 John R. Hall religion can be used to sanctify violence and to crystalize and legitimate what Huntington (1996) calls civiliz ...