Topics include: the Christian Right, homosexuality, identity politics, visions of America's future, moral relativism, the role of government, political ideology, religious beliefs and activities, and a variety of lifestyle questions. Memory can foster any number of things social solidarity, nostalgia, civil war but it always depends on both the nature of the past and the cultures doing the remembering. This book offers a social and historical perspective on what shaped each of these imaginings, when each came to the fore, and which appear especially relevant early in the 21st century. The United States has always been profoundly conflicted about the role and utility of its government. Abstract. In characteristic fashion, Stephen White's searching analysis is not only critically astute, but powerfully and productively aspirational. The Colloquy on Culture and Democracy seeks to understand the complex factors that are currently challenging and transforming the normative foundations of democracy both in the U.S. and internationally, and to grapple with the human consequences of these changesall in pursuit of a framework for the common good. What is democratization? Yet despite this interest, the public knows little about the officers who actually commit such violence. Collectivistic Religions draws upon empirical studies of Christianity in Europe to address questions of religion and collective identity, religion and nationalism, religion and public life, and religion and conflict.It moves beyond the attempts to tackle such questions in terms of 'choice' and 'religious nationalism' by introducing the notion of 'collectivistic religions' to contemporary debates surrounding public religions. Using a comparison of several case studies, this book challenges the modernist bias in understanding of collectivistic religions as reducible to national identities.A significant contribution to both the study of religious change in contemporary Europe and the theoretical debates that surround religion and secularization, it will be of key interest to scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, political science, religious studies, and geography. Cultural policy, they argue, has been left entirely to vested interests, and it has been virtually ignored by the press. Police who engage in torture are condemned by human rights activists, the media, and people across the world who shudder at their brutality. Democratizing Culture or Cultural Democracy? Abstract: This book proposes to strengthen nonprofit boards and to improve their productivity through an organizational format called the Corporate Model. Cultural democracy, meanwhile, emerged in European cultural policy debates in the 1970s, largely as a critique of democratization of culture, which was seen as a 'top-down' elitist homogenizing approach to culture that ignored cultural expressions and practices outside of the mainstream canon (Matarosso and Landry, 1999; Baeker, 2002). And yet, politics alone cannot provide what democratic vitality requires. Utilizing the latest historiography in the study of U.S. foreign relations, the book updates political science scholarship and sheds new light on the role American exceptionalism has played and continues to play in shaping Americas role in the world. This paper has two aims: first, to elucidate the changing definitions of cultural participation in relation to digital, This article considers whether the German concept of Bildung, meaning human personal growtha term not often used in English debates about culture or educationcan help in understanding differing, In this essay Ruben A. Gaztambide-Fernandez uses a discursive approach to argue that mainstream arts in education scholarship and advocacy construes the arts as a definable naturalistic phenomenon. Scholars agree that democracy depends upon some shared vision of the common good and of the practices that sustain it. He concludes that ideological struggles last longer than most people presume; ideologies are not monolithic; foreign interventions are the norm; a state may be both rational and ideological; an ideology wins when states that exemplify it outperform other states across a range of measures; and the ideology that wins may be a surprise. Philpott answers that call by proposing a form of political reconciliation that is deeply rooted in three religious traditions--Christianity, Islam, and Judaism--as well as the restorative justice movement. Democracy and the cultural ideal. GENERAL. Kristen Deede Johnson describes the move from tolerance to difference, and the accompanying move from epistemology to ontology, within political theory. Recreating the American Republic reveals the special import of apportionment rules for pluralistic, democratic orders by engaging three critical eras and events of American history: the colonial era and the American Revolution; the early national years and the 1787 Constitutional Convention; and the nineteenth century and the American Civil War. Democratizing Culture or Cultural Democracy? | Arts Intranet The Athens Democracy Forum takes place this September 28-30, 2022 in Athens (and virtually) where we will examine the lessons learned from the pandemic and the rise in populism and participated in the debate on how we should confront the economic and social fallout. Culture & Democracy | Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture The United States is a nation of joiners. We tend to think of this variation in terms of geography - democratic Western Europe or autocratic Middle East. Cultural Resources for Democracy: The Case of South Korean Democratization and the Nineteenth-Century Tonghak Movement . The IFCD has been developed by the Council of Europe in collaboration with the Hertie School of Governance (H. K. Anheier) and the University of Heidelberg (M. Hoelscher) and with support from the European Cultural Foundation and member states. Sociology. 3:00p.m.4:30p.m. Globalization has put the classical question of the relation between democracy and culture prominently on the political agenda. Noon2:00p.m. Past Events Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy - Cambridge Core Today the American state, faced with a steady decline in public confidence, has embraced a therapeutic code of moral understanding to legitimize its very existence. Freedom House data for 2020, CC BY-ND At the very center of cultural conflict today are a host of public issuesabortion, sexual harassment, homosexualityissues so contentious they have recently provoked violence. Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia, Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University, Visiting Assistant Professor at Claremont McKenna College, Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Virginia, Chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Virginia, Interim Chair, Colloquy on Culture & Democracy, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia, Assistant Director, Initiative on Religion, Politics and Conflict, University of Virginia, Codirector, The Hannah Arendt Working Group on Critical Theories of Modernity, Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, IU, Professor of Philosophy, Bard College Berlin, James Hart Professor of Politics Emeritus, University of Virginia, Professor of Philosophy, James Madison University, James Madison Professor of History, University of Virginia. In contexts ranging from friendship, the family, and personal life to nationalism, democratic citizenship, the role of women in social and political life, and the contrasts between western and (post-)Communist societies, this book brings out the ways the various uses of the public/private distinction are simultaneously distinct and interconnected. The Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture is aninterdisciplinary research center and intellectual community at the University of Virginia committed to understanding contemporary cultural change and its individual and social consequences, training young scholars, and providing intellectual leadership in service to the public good. Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy: The Human Development With an outstanding Advisory Board, we are connected nationally and internationally to the leading intellectuals of our time. Analysis: Democracy spreads in waves - but shared cultural history Democracy spreads in waves - but shared cultural history might matter The argument in this article is that debates about culture - which go beyond cultural policies to include, for example, the criticism of mass culture in defense of intellectual culture - may be grouped and structured around the conflict between two paradigms: the democratization of culture versus cultural democracy. 5:00p.m.6:30p.m. on April 26th. Consequences and Limitations. More often than not, much to resentment among the local population. helps to secure political democracy, it also helps to secure cultural democracy. By examining the past conflicts that have torn Europe and the Americasand how they have been supported by underground networks, fomented radicalism and revolution, and triggered foreign interventions and international conflictsJohn Owen draws six major lessons to demonstrate that much of what we think about political Islam is wrong. To find mention of cultural determinants of democracy, one has to go back to Almond and Verba(1963) who emphasized the importance of civic culture as a Though globalization can be a force for democratization and prosperity, it tends to corrode traditional norms and replace them with those of market efficiency, individualism, and experimentation.