Streit um das Minarett. Zusammenleben in der religiös pluralistischen Gesellschaft

Der Bau von Minaretten und die daran sichtbar werdende Präsenz des Islam in Europa lösen Kontroversen aus, die in der Schweiz bis zu einer Volksinitiative zum Verbot von Minaretten geführt haben. Das vorliegende Buch thematisiert erstmals die wichtigsten Aspekte der Kontroverse: Was sind die Motive und die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen für den Bau von Minaretten? Warum konnte die Minarett-Initiative zustande kommen und worin besteht ihre Problematik? Wie sind die Argumente der Minarett-Gegner zu bewerten und welche Rolle spielen die Kirchen in der Minarett-Diskussion? Welche Lösungen gibt es für Minarett-Konflikte und welches sind die Regeln für das Zusammenleben in der religiös pluralistischen Gesellschaft? Diese Fragen werden aus juristischer, soziologischer, islamwissenschaftlicher und theologischer Perspektive diskutiert. Das Buch richtet sich sowohl an politisch Interessierte als auch an Fachleute.

Polonofilizm i polskość wśród czeskich emancypantek w drugiej połowie XIX wieku: przykład Karoliny Světlej

The awakening of national consciousness went hand in hand in Bohemia with an anxiety about national disappearance. In this context, the recourse to Pan-Slavism was for the Czechs a way to encourage themselves through the idea of belonging to a great Slavic world, while the Slavic Congress organized in Prague in 1848 was an attempt to realize this ideal. The Congress was a failure from the political point of view, but it did have some socio-cultural repercussions: notably, it served as a pretext for the advancement of women's issues in Bohemia. It is indeed in the wake of the Congress that Honorata z Wiśniowskich Zapová, a Polish women settled in Prague after her marriage to a Czech intellectual, founded, under the guise of collaboration between all Slavic women, the first women's association, as well as a (very short-lived) Czech-Polish institute, where Czech, as well as Polish girls, could get a quality education in their mother tongue. Honorata was undoubtedly the source of the polonophilia wind that seemed to blow over the Czech emancipation movement in the second half of the nineteenth century. In particular, Karolina Světlá showed in her Memoirs a great recognition for Honorata's efforts in matters of emancipation and education, and explicitly took up the challenge launched by the latter in founding another women's association and in inaugurating a school for underprivileged girls. But the tribute Světlá paid to Honorata is even more evident in her literary work, where Poland and the Polish woman (who often wears Honorata's features) play a significant role (see for example her short novel Sisters or her story A Few Days in the Life of a Prague Dandy). Světlá was probably the Czech feminist writer who, in her activities and in her work, relied most strongly on the Polish woman as a model for the Czech woman. However, she wasn't alone. In general, it was a characteristic of the Czech feminist movement of the second half of the nineteenth century to have recourse to the Polish woman and to Poland as a landmark for comparison and as a goal to be achieved.