Susan and others, you might find this useful, I haven't read it but the current issue of Social Compass has this.
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/JournalIssueAbstract.aspx?pid=105777&jiid=16967&jia id=33219 Volume 50 Issue 02 - Publication Date: 06/2003 A Difficult Case Sen McGlinn , University of Leiden, The Netherlands English Margit Warburg has presented data showing that the Bah�'� community of Denmark represents an excellent case of Beyer's 'liberal option' in its response to globalization. She also claims, incorrectly, that the Bah�'� Faith has the 'ultimate aim of merging political and religious institutions'. The Bah�'� Faith represents a paradoxical example in terms of Beyer's categories. Its values include relativism, pluralism, globalization, a cosmopolitan ethic and democratic government. But it also seeks to give political and legal effect to these religious values, for instance by supporting the United Nations and advocating a world court. Beyer considers that a religious movement which seeks to have religious norms enshrined in legislation has adopted the 'conservative option' in response to globalization. Is this a useful categorization, when the religious norms are liberal and the stage on which they are to be implemented is global? Cheers, Steve Cooney. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Susan Maneck Sent: Monday, 21 July 2003 12:23 p.m. To: Baha'i Studies Subject: Re: Review of Sen's article on theocracy > > >>You criticize Sen's own work for being polemical diatribe, but I > >>fear this essay suffers from some of the same flaws. > > I fear you are right. In all honesty I find it hard to play straight with > Sen as he himself prefers to play with a hard ball. More pointedly, it is difficult to expose just what Sen is doing without sounding polemical. warmest, Susan ---------- You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Baha'i Studies is available through the following: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.jccc.net/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=bahai-st news://list.jccc.net/bahai-st http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist (public) To unsubscribe send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Baha'i Studies is available through the following: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.jccc.net/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=bahai-st news://list.jccc.net/bahai-st http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist (public) http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (public)
