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Dedication ; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Part I: International Perspectives; Chapter 1: Specters of a New Ecumenism: In Search of a Church "Out of Joint"; The Hauntings; Specters of the Ecumenical Movement; The New Ecumenism; Notes; Chapter 2: Religion and the State: Contexts, Controversies, and Conjectures in Australia, Indonesia, and Egypt; Introduction; Australia; Emergence of the Secular State; Controversy over State Support of Religious Schools; Indonesia; Emergence of the Secular State; Controversy over Interpretation and Application of Pancasila
EgyptEgypt-Controversy over Article II of the Constitution; Conclusion; Notes; Part II: Africa and Asia; Chapter 3: A Postcolonial Theological Reading of the Philippines: Church-State Relation and a Familia Dei Response; Introduction; Theoretical Construct for a Postcolonial Reading; Postcolonial Reading of the Church-State Relation; A Postcolonial Re-Reading of the Church in Society: A Familia Dei Ecclesiology; Summary; Notes; Chapter 4: Diagnosing the Politics of Christian-Muslim Conflicts in the West African Sub-Region: Going beyond the Western Paradigm; Objective; Introduction
The SituationThe Roots of the Conflicts; Colonial Influence and Lack of Sense of Nationality; Post-Colonial Interest-Economic and Political; Failed States, Insufficient Leadership, Political Domination and Dictatorship, Collapsing Government Services, and Corruption; Ethnic Tension and Resource Control/Distribution; Socio-Cultural-Religious Clash and Conflict; Ignorance of History and Inability to Learn from and Heal the Past; Effect of the War on Terrorism-The Shift of Islamic Jihadists and Extremists to the More Vulnerable Habitats; Concluding Statements; Notes
Chapter 5: Islamic Extremism in West Africa: A Historical and Theological Analysis of the Crisis of Religious Brigandage in IslamIntroduction; Causal Relationship of Radicalism and Islamic Fundamentalism: A Historical Analysis; Contemporary Jihad: A Continuity or Discontinuity?; Cases of Religiously Motivated Violence in Islam; Conflicts over the Sharia; Conflicts over the Quran; Conflicts over the Prophet Muhammad; Toward a Viable Solution: The Role of the State; Toward a Theological Solution; Conclusion; Notes; Part III: The United States of America
Chapter 6: The Reign of God and Constantine's Disputed Legacy: Religious Freedom, Sacred Empire, and the American ExperienceConstantine, Sacred Emperor, and Religious Freedom; The Sacred Emperor; Religious Freedom: Constantine and Lactantius: "So Why Do They Behave with Such Savagery?"; The Limitations of Religious Freedom: "What Has the Church to Do with the Emperor?"; Augustine: "What Are Great Empires but Great Robbers?"; Justinian: "Any Difference Between Priesthood and Empire Is Small"; The American Experience: Sacred Empire and Religious Freedom
EgyptEgypt-Controversy over Article II of the Constitution; Conclusion; Notes; Part II: Africa and Asia; Chapter 3: A Postcolonial Theological Reading of the Philippines: Church-State Relation and a Familia Dei Response; Introduction; Theoretical Construct for a Postcolonial Reading; Postcolonial Reading of the Church-State Relation; A Postcolonial Re-Reading of the Church in Society: A Familia Dei Ecclesiology; Summary; Notes; Chapter 4: Diagnosing the Politics of Christian-Muslim Conflicts in the West African Sub-Region: Going beyond the Western Paradigm; Objective; Introduction
The SituationThe Roots of the Conflicts; Colonial Influence and Lack of Sense of Nationality; Post-Colonial Interest-Economic and Political; Failed States, Insufficient Leadership, Political Domination and Dictatorship, Collapsing Government Services, and Corruption; Ethnic Tension and Resource Control/Distribution; Socio-Cultural-Religious Clash and Conflict; Ignorance of History and Inability to Learn from and Heal the Past; Effect of the War on Terrorism-The Shift of Islamic Jihadists and Extremists to the More Vulnerable Habitats; Concluding Statements; Notes
Chapter 5: Islamic Extremism in West Africa: A Historical and Theological Analysis of the Crisis of Religious Brigandage in IslamIntroduction; Causal Relationship of Radicalism and Islamic Fundamentalism: A Historical Analysis; Contemporary Jihad: A Continuity or Discontinuity?; Cases of Religiously Motivated Violence in Islam; Conflicts over the Sharia; Conflicts over the Quran; Conflicts over the Prophet Muhammad; Toward a Viable Solution: The Role of the State; Toward a Theological Solution; Conclusion; Notes; Part III: The United States of America
Chapter 6: The Reign of God and Constantine's Disputed Legacy: Religious Freedom, Sacred Empire, and the American ExperienceConstantine, Sacred Emperor, and Religious Freedom; The Sacred Emperor; Religious Freedom: Constantine and Lactantius: "So Why Do They Behave with Such Savagery?"; The Limitations of Religious Freedom: "What Has the Church to Do with the Emperor?"; Augustine: "What Are Great Empires but Great Robbers?"; Justinian: "Any Difference Between Priesthood and Empire Is Small"; The American Experience: Sacred Empire and Religious Freedom