Separation of church and state als Taschenbuch von - Paperback

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 153. Chapters: Blue law, Theocracy, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Religious pluralism, Freedom of religion, Ocean Grove, New Jersey, Jerusalem, Qur'an oath controversy of the 110th United States Congress, Separation of church and state in the United States, State religion, State atheism, Islam and secularism, Mount Soledad cross controversy, Anti-clericalism, Render unto Caesar..., Treaty of Tripoli, American Enlightenment, David Barton, Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, CNCD Decision 323/2006, Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, Jim Towey, Dual system of government, 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, Speechless: Silencing the Christians, Public menorah, Doctrine of the two kingdoms, Aslim Taslam, Released time, Church and state in medieval Europe, Joint Action Committee for Political Affairs, Lautsi v. Italy, Baptists in the history of separation of church and state, Mutaween, The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience, Flushing Remonstrance, Daniel Freeman, Weekday Religious Education, Richard Land, Theologico-Political Treatise, Michael L. Weinstein, Dratshang Lhentshog, Political theology, Concordat of 2008, Inocencio Junquera, De Monarchia, Ceremonial deism, Faith-based, Glenn L. Archer, TheocracyWatch, Constantinianism, Secularism in Israel, Jeremy Hall, Secular religion, Veterans' Memorials, Boy Scouts, Public Seals, and Other Public Expressions of Religion Protection Act of 2006, Sacralism, With God on Our Side: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military, National Religious Freedom Day, The Naked Public Square, Secular conservatism. Excerpt: Jerusalem or On Religious Power and Judaism (original: "Jerusalem oder über religiöse Macht und Judentum") is the title of a book written by Moses Mendelssohn, which was first published in 1783 - the same year, when the Prussian officer Christian Wilhelm von Dohm published the second part of his Mémoire Concerning the amelioration of the civil status of the Jews. Moses Mendelssohn was one of the key figures of Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah) and his philosophical treatise, dealing with social contract and political theory (especially concerning the question of the separation between religion and state), can be regarded as his most important contribution to Haskalah. The book which was written in Prussia on the eve of the French Revolution, consisted of two parts and each one was paged separately. The first part discusses "religious power" and the freedom of conscience in the context of the political theory (Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes), and the second part discusses Mendelssohn's personal conception of Judaism concerning the new secular role of any religion within an enlightened state. In his publication Moses Mendelssohn combined a defense of the Jewish population against public accusations with a contemporary critic against the present conditions of the Prussian Monarchy. Mendelssohn, Lavater and Lessing (behind), engraving made of a painting by the artist Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (1800-1881)In 1763 some students of theology visited Moses Mendelssohn in Berlin because of his reputation as a man of letters, and they insisted that they wanted to know Mendelssohn's opinion about Christianity. One of them, the Swiss Johann Caspar Lavater, sent him 1769 his own German translation of Charles Bonnet's Palingénésie philosophique, with a public dedication to...