Washington and Rome: Catholicism in American Culture

History

Zöller, Michael

World

Univ of Notre Dame Pr

<p>To an outside observer, the religious culture of the United States might seem astonishing. For German sociologist Michael Zöller, American Catholicism is more than that; it is a contradiction in terms. With its historical consciousness, emphasis on institutionalized structures, and combination of skepticism and assurance of grace, Catholicism seems to embody the very opposite of the American cultural principle. Zöller here reexamines widely held notions about secularization and the role of religion in civil society to show how Catholicism was integrated into the Protestant, egalitarian, and populist American culture and to determine what distinguishes American Catholics from both European Catholics and other Americans. Zöller traces the progress of Catholicism in the New World from earliest European settlement through the "Great Crisis" of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to its acceptance in the mainstream of modern America. He tells how, despite the anti-Catholic sentiments of the founding fathers and Americans' deep suspicion of institutions, the Church has fared better in this religiously neutral republic than in the so-called Catholic countries where it was both privileged and persecuted. Because American Catholicism was preoccupied for so long with having to justify itself in both Rome and Washington while fighting internally for a proper balance between these loyalties, it acquired abilities that had never been necessary in the countries where it first flourished.</p>

Americas

University of Notre Dame Press

Traditional notions of citizenship are linked to the idea of the democratic nation-state, a sovereign entity capable of defending itself against foreign and domestic enemies. But these notions have become increasingly problematic as the very concept of the nation-state is challenged, not only by ethnic and religious conflicts, but also by increased global mobility and the political integration of nation-states into international organizations-most prominently, the European Union. Will the concept of citizenship as we know it survive the decline of the nation-state?In this volume, scholars from both sides of the Atlantic consider how concepts of citizenship affect debates over immigration and assimilation, tolerance and minority rights, and national cohesion and civic culture. The authors explore the notion of "constitutional patriotism," which seeks to establish principles of citizenship in a middle ground between cosmopolitanism and nationalism; the theoretical and practical questions of citizenship, including the complexities surrounding the legal status of citizenship in the European Union and the United States; the challenges of making EU citizenship "complementary" with national citizenship; and the issue of competing allegiances to home states and the European Union. Finally, the authors examine the centrality of rights, and the challenges of conflicting rights claims, in contemporary conceptions of citizenship. To what extent―if at all―should citizens' rights and duties change as the nation-state itself changes?In a globalizing, post-9/11 world, it is more important than ever to understand the future of citizenship and the nation-state. In essays that range from the pragmatic to the theoretical, from the historical to the personal, Citizenship in America and Europe sheds light on these crucial issues.

Citizenship in America and Europe: Beyond the Nation-State?

Greve, Michael S.

Legal Theory & Systems

AEI Press

1. 1. Vorbemerkullg Diesem Buch liegt, im wesentlichen unverandert, ein Manuskript zugrunde, welches im Sommer 1973 von der Philosophischen Fakultat I der Miinchner Ludwig-Maximi- lians-Universitat unter dem Titel "Freiheit von Arbeit, Herrschaft und Form - Struk- turelemente ideologischen Denkens der Intelligenz am Beispiel der deutschen Univer- sitatsidee" als Dissertationsschrift angenommen wurde. Es stellt zugieich den in den J ahren 1971 und 1972 unternommenen Versuch des Verfassers dar, die Erfahrungen aus den vorausgegangenen aufgeregten J ahren hochschulpolitischer Auseinanderset- zungen "auf den Begrifr' zu bringen und sich darin eines Stiickes miterlebter Entwik- klung methodisch zu vergewissern. Weder der daraus folgende polemische Duktus einiger Kapitel noch der mitunter spiirbare Charakter einer Doktorarbeit soli ten und konnten daher verleugnet werden. So habe ich trotz des mittlerweile gewonnenen relativen Abstandes nur einige Straf- fungen vorgenommen, ansonsten aber das Manuskript in seinem urspriinglichen Zu- stand belassen. 1st der im Foigenden kritisierten deutschen Universitat mit diesen Vorbemerkun- gen immerhin zugestanden, daE sie eine derart personlich geHirbte Arbeitsweise noch gestattet, so bleibt gerade an dieser Stelle, mehr noch als im Vorwort zu einer Disser- tation iiblicherweise geboten, flir die innerhalb der Universitat erfahrene Forderung und Forderung zu danken. In erster Linie gilt dieser Dank dem Doktorvater, meinem verehrten Lehrer Prof. Hans Maier, der das Entstehen dieser Arbeit auf vielHiltige Wei- se fOrderte und dessen duldsame Anteilnahme sich ebenso wohltuend-dezent wie kri- tisch-bestimmt auBerte. Daneben bin ich sowohl Herrn Prof. Helmut Schelsky aus Miinster wie auch Herrn Prof. Friedrich H.

Die Unfähigkeit zur Politik: Politikbegriff und Wissenschaftsverständnis von Humboldt bis Habermas (Studien zur Sozialwissenschaft, 34) (German Edition)

Europe

VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften

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