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The Political Sermon in an Age of Party Strife, 1700–1720: Contributions to the Conflict

2012

Abstract This article analyses the ways the English party-political conflict was conducted in the pulpit. It examines English political preaching using the perspective of the broader West European tradition of delivering political sermons in political forums and on relevant national occasions. It then outlines the state of research on party-political conflict and its reflection in Anglican preaching. Finally, the article studies the political content of two distinctive and controversial sermons.

Understanding Debate as Politics

2017

The book’s core idea is to present and explain how different actual and virtual debates can be understood and analysed as political actions. We want to provide tools and ways for grasping the complex phenomenon of politics by concentrating on debate, including debates carried out in, or reflected by, documents. The approach proposed allows for a nuanced and detailed understanding of politics, as it does justice to the aims of political actors, taking into account their actions, interests, moves and strategies, and situating them in relation to the different contexts in which their contributions make a difference. The first chapter presents the theoretical and methodological background by an…

Fitness: The New Black or Even a Religion?

2020

This book has outlined the significance of the fitness industry in fifteen European countries, including Flanders in Belgium and England in the United Kingdom. All of these countries and regions follow nowadays the basic principles of the liberal market economy, where the legal and political restrictions for the sport business industry to emerge, develop and grow are minimal. However, as history has shown, in many of the European countries, sport and physical culture have developed around the idea of voluntarism and amateurism during the last ca 100 years.

Authority and Coordination

1995

There are many possible starting points for attempts to link authority with the coordination of human interactions: the most famous forerunner here is of course David Hume with his theory of justice. I will, however, start from a more recent classic. Herbert A. Simon’s Administrative Behaviour (1945, 2nd ed. 1957) includes an important theory for the role of authority. It is an obvious sign of the lack of communication between different branches and traditions in social theory that many jurists and political theorists emphasizing the coordinative functions of authority have paid no attention to Simon’s classical book.

Latvia: Political Developments and Data in 2020

2021

Latvia: Political development and data for 2017

2018

Does the nuclear family affect social trust? Longitudinal evidence from Germany

2021

While research indicates that social trust might benefit societies’ political and economic development, the sources of social trust are subject to debate. This article investigates a less investiga...

Always in crisis, always a solution?

2021

A Brief Political History of the Baltic States

2015

Political discourse in the Baltic states is marked by debates on the past as much as on the future. The 1980s drive to break from the Soviet Union, driven by an overwhelming sense of historical injustice, began with small ‘calendar demonstrations’ marking significant dates in Baltic history. Key domestic and international disputes are based on contested interpretations of history. This is particularly visible each spring in Latvia. On 16 March a shrinking number of Latvian Waffen SS Legion veterans, along with several hundred nationalist supporters, march from the historic Dom Church in the Old Town of Riga to the towering Freedom Monument, the symbol of Latvia’s independent statehood. Ther…

La decadencia de la Sociología en la enseñanza secundaria en España: un análisis del impacto de la Lomce en la Sociología en la educación media posto…

2021


 
 
 Este estudio es un análisis comparativo de la presencia de la asignatura de Sociología en el sistema educativo postobligatorio español. El objetivo de este es conocer cómo la promulgación de la Ley Orgánica no 8/2013, del 9 de diciembre, conocida como Lomce (Ley Orgánica para la Mejora de la Calidad Educativa), afectó a la presencia de la Sociología en el currículo educativo de todas las regiones de España. La metodología empleada ha sido el análisis de textos jurídicos y entrevistas telefónicas a centros educativos y profesorado. En suma, se ha comparado el cambio normativo que afecta a los currículos en las 17 regiones españolas, y se han recabado dat…