Gods Heart Has No Borders or The Foundations of Modern Political Thought

God's Heart Has No Borders: How Religious Activists Are Working for Immigrant Rights

Author: Pierrette Hondagneu Sotelo

In this timely and compelling account of the contribution to immigrant rights made by religious activists in post-1965 and post-9/11 America, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo provides a comprehensive, close-up view of how Muslim, Christian, and Jewish groups are working to counter xenophobia. Against the hysteria prevalent in today's media, in which immigrants are often painted as a drain on the public coffers, inherently unassimilable, or an outright threat to national security, Hondagneu-Sotelo finds the intersection between migration and religion and calls attention to quieter voices, those dedicated to securing the human dignity of newcomers. Based on years of fieldwork conducted in California's major centers as well as in Chicago, this book considers Muslim Americans defending their civil liberties after 9/11, Christian activists responding to death and violence at the U.S-Mexico border, and Christian and Jewish clergy defending the labor rights of Latino immigrants. At a time when much attention has been given to religious fundamentalism and its capacity to incite violent conflict, God's Heart Has No Borders revises our understanding of the role of religion in social movements and demonstrates the nonviolent power of religious groups to address social injustices.

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The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: The Age of Reformation, Vol. 2

Author: Quentin Skinner

A two-volume study of political thought from the late thirteenth to the end of the sixteenth century, the decisive period of transition from medieval to modern political theory. The work is intended to be both an introduction to the period for students, and a presentation and justification of a particular approach to the interpretation of historical texts. Quentin Skinner gives an outline account of all the principal texts of the period, discussing in turn the chief political writings of Dante, Marsiglio, Bartolus, Machiavelli, Erasmus and more, Luther and Calvin, Bodin and the Calvinist revolutionaries. But he also examines a very large number of lesser writers in order to explain the general social and intellectual context in which these leading theorists worked. He thus presents the history not as a procession of 'classic texts' but are more readily intelligible. He traces by this means the gradual emergence of the vocabulary of modern political thought, and in particular the crucial concept of the State. We are given an insight into the actual processes of the formation of ideologies and into some of the linkages between political theory and practice. Professer Skinner has been awarded the Balzan Prize Life Time Achievement Award for Political Thought, History and Theory. Full details of this award can be found at balzan.it/News_eng.aspx'ID=2474

Table of Contents:

Part I. Absolutism and the Lutheran Reformation:

1. The principles of Lutheranism;
2. The forerunners of Lutheranism;
3. The spread of Lutheranism;

Part II. Constitutionalism and the Counter Reformation:
4. The background of constitutionalism;
5. The revival of Thomism;
6. The limits of constitutionalism;

Part III. Calvinism and the Theory of Revolution:
7. The duty to resist;
8. The context of the Huguenot revolution;
9. The right to resist; Conclusion; Bibliography of primary sources; Bibliography of secondary sources; Index.