Author: Everett, William Johnson
Title: Religion, Federalism, and the Struggle for Public Life: Cases from Germany, India and America
Description: New York / Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998. orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xiv,206 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Religious Cradle of Federal Republicanism; The Frame of Inquiry; The Plan of the Book; Envisioning the Engagement: Religion and Federal Republicanism; The Concept of Covenantal Publicity; Religion & Political Order in Sociological Perspective; The Churches & Germany's "Peaceful Revolution" of 1989-90: Key Historical Considerations; The Church in the Revolution of 1989-90; Key Issues in the German Experience; Trust & Reconciliation in a Covenantal Public; Covenantal Publicity & the Partial Revolution; Religious Organization & Constitutional Justice in India: The Ancient Matrix of Religion & Governance; The "Historic" Religions: Islam & Christianity; The Drive for Independence & Constitutional Order; The Federal Constitution of 1950; Redressing Past Inequities: Compensatory Discrimination & Soosai the Cobbler; From Religious Tutelage to a Common Civil Code: The Case of Shah Bano; Ecclesiology & Constitutional Order: The United Basel Mission Church Case; Criitcal Issues in India's Struggle for Convenantal Publicity; Sacred Lands & Religious Assemblies in America: The Molding of the American Experience; Methodism & the Quandries of Republican Federation: The Pacific Homes Case; Sacred Lands & Native Peoples in Federal Contestation; Assessing the Engagement; Evaluating the Inquiry: The Critical Role of Ecclesiology; Ecclesiology & Federal-Republican Struggle; Role of Religion in the Federal-Republican Project; Religion, Reconciliation & the Republican Struggle; The Concept of Convenantal

Keywords: Comparative Politics, Federal Federalism, Republican, Republicanism, Religion, Constitutional Law, India Germany, United States, Political History