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ARTICLE Despite much ambivalence in the relationship between Christianity and democracy, there are reasons why determined Christians and minority churches have called for secular democracy, have advanced it, and have helped to stabilize it.
A comment by Thomas Schirrmacher, Chairman of the Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance This blog entry is a supplement to the following German communication in Bonner Querschnitte, translated her from the German: The […]
A threat to religious freedom in the only democracy in the Near East Overall, national religious political parties currently receive about 15% of the vote. And yet as small coalition partners they have gained an […]
In my statement yesterday as an expert in human rights for the parliamentary human rights committee of the German Bundestag (Federal Parliament), my observations on the role of the media and its negative effects on […]
Frank Hinkelmann and Thomas Schirrmacher regarding a new Text by the Central Office for World View Issues (Evangelische Zentralstelle für Weltanschauungsfragen – EZW) of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) That the Evangelical Church can […]
Thomas Schirrmacher. Fundamentalism – When Religion becomes Dangerous. The WEA Global Issues Series. Vol. 14. Culture and Science Publishing: Bonn, 2013.
I allow myself, as a sociologist of religion, to throw my definition of fundamentalism into the ring.