Mirjam Künkler
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 246048 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mirjam Künkler |
| NOMBRES | Mirjam |
| APELLIDO | Künkler |
| FIRMA | KÜNKLER M |
| AFILIACIONES | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7737-9245 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 116 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Comparative Sociology, Global History, and Contentious Politics
Charles Tilly is a towering figure in the social sciences. His work has influenced generations of scholars across disciplines, yet younger generations are often less familiar with his work. This is a lost opportunity given the analytical depth of Tilly's oeuvre. Much of his work on areas outside of state formation and social movements remains underutilized, while research agendas across the social sciences can be strengthened by building on his w…
Mobilization and Arenas of Opposition in Indonesia's New Order (1966-1998)
Theories of regime transition have highlighted the importance of moderate resistance movement leaders in negotiating the end of authoritarianism and multiparty democracies. Meanwhile, the specific context in which such moderate opposition leaders who believe in the virtues of peaceful conflict resolution emerge and gain sufficient influence to sideline more radical elements has received far less attention in the transitions to democracy literatur…
Preaching Politics
A growing body of research demonstrates that political involvement by Christian religious leaders can undermine the religion's social influence. Do these negative consequences of politicization also extend to Islam? Contrary to scholarly and popular accounts that describe Islam as inherently political, we argue that Muslim religious leaders will weaken their religious authority when they engage with politics. We test this argument with a conjoint…
Human Rights and Reformist Islam
Human Rights and Reformist Islam
Human Rights and Reformist Islam critiques traditional Islamic approaches to the question of compatibility between human rights and Islam and argues instead for their reconciliation from the perspective of a reformist Islam. The book focuses on six controversial case studies: religious discrimination; gender discrimination; slavery; freedom of religion; punishment of apostasy; and arbitrary or harsh punishments. Explaining the strengths of struct…
David Martin in Memoriam (1929-2019)
Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde
In this introductory essay to a special section on ‘Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde: Inner-Catholic Critic and Advocate of Open Neutrality’, we outline the main features of Böckenförde’s thought with regard to law, religion, and democracy while also introducing the six articles that are part of the section. Böckenförde emerged early as an inner-Catholic critic that -prior to Vatican II- called on the church to accept the secular democratic state and o…
The Bureaucratization of Religion in Southeast Asia
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Secular Age Beyond the West
This book traces religion and secularity in eleven countries not shaped by Western Christianity (Japan, China, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Iran, Russia, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, and Morocco), and how they parallel or diverge from Charles Taylor's grand narrative of the North Atlantic world, A Secular Age (2007). In all eleven cases, the state - enhanced by post-colonial and post-imperial legacies - highly determines religious experience, by variabl…
Democratic pluralism, social cohesion and individual ethos in the secularized state
Carl Schmitt in Ernst‐Wolfgang Böckenförde's work
Staat, Recht und Verfassung
The 4th edition of the first volume of this work provides an update of the commentary on the preamble and articles 1 to 19 in case law and literature. The structure of the book has been retained and its content supplemented by more recent developments, such as the implications of Europeanisation and digitalisation as well as the Corona pandemic. As of the 4th edition, Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf has taken over the editorship of the commentary.
Constitutional and Political Theory
The book is a first representative edition in English of Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde's writings on constitutional, legal, and political theory. As a German legal scholar and former judge on Germany's federal constitutional court, Böckenförde has shaped legal and political discourse in twentieth century Germany like few others. Böckenförde's oeuvre represents a classic strand of German political and legal thinking beyond Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmit…
De-centring Shiʿi Islam
In the introduction to this special issue, we make the case for ‘de-centring’ the study of Shiʿi Islam, conceptually, spatially and sociologically. After first noting the essentialization of Shiʿi identity within the contemporary public sphere, we question its spatialization within the modern world of nation-states and area studies, and contrast the physical and human geography of Shiʿi Islam. We then turn to the central theme of religious author…
Studying Female Islamic Authority
This article introduces a special issue on female Islamic authority in contemporary Asia. It provides an overview of the literature on religious authority in Islam and briefly lays out which modes of female religious authority have been more accepted than others in the schools of jurisprudence. Based on the articles included in this issue, the introduction makes two chief observations. First, in contrast to the overwhelming consensus among expert…
The Unification of Law and the Postcolonial State
The article analyzes the evolution of state law pluralism in the field of personal status law in India and Indonesia in the postcolonial era. Having inherited pluri-legal personal law systems from their colonial patrons, postindependence leaders in both countries vowed to eliminate and replace pluri-legal arrangements by uniform civil law systems that would not discriminate on the basis of ethnicity, custom, or religion. Despite their attempts at…
Constitutionalism in Rough Seas
Regulation of 'Religion' and the 'Religious
This article compares the strategies through which Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Indonesia have regulated religion and addressed questions of what constitutes 'the religious' in the post-independence period. We show that the dominant approach pursued by the Indian state has been one of judicialization-the delegation of religious questions to the high courts-while in Indonesia it has predominantly been one of bureaucratization-the regul…
Democracy and Islam in Indonesia
Diversity in Democracy
The articles assembled in this symposium share their roots in a workshop we organized at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISJ) in Onati, Spain, in June 2011. The workshop, titled “Legal Pluralism and Democracy. When Does Legal Pluralism Enhance, When Does It Erode Legitimacy of and Trust in Democratic Institutions?” examined the consequences of legal pluralism for various facets of democracy, from human rights and political …
Democracy and Islam in Indonesia
Indonesia's military government collapsed in 1998, igniting fears that economic, religious, and political conflicts would complicate any democratic transition. Yet in every year since 2006, the world's most populous Muslim country has received high marks from international democracy-ranking organizations. In this volume, political scientists, religious scholars, legal theorists, and anthropologists examine the theory and practice of Indonesia's d…
Religious parties
The saliency of religious parties in recent democratic consolidation processes forces the discipline to reconsider key questions on party change: Under what conditions do (radical) religious parties moderate? Is their mere inclusion in the democratic process enough to result in their moderation? If so, exactly what mechanisms are at work here? What roles are played by intervening variables such as coalition politics and electoral systems? And if …
The Life of Two Mujtahidahs
This chapter introduces two Iranian female mujtahidahs , Nusr at Amīn (1886-1983) and Zuhrah Si fātī (1948-), who represent like few of their contemporaries the status of female religious authority in twentieth-century Iran, divided by the important cesura of the 1979 revolution. Both women's work was strongly influenced by the socio-political environment in and against which they defined themselves. A comparison of the two women's lives and work…
Religion‐State Relations and Democracy in Egypt and Tunisia
Until recently, political scientists still spoke of the “Arab-Democracy-Gap” (Stepan and Robertson 2003), pointing to the fact that all Muslim-majority democratizers were notably countries outside the Arab world. The Arab spring has changed this image. With Tunisia and Egypt having conducted relatively free parliamentary elections and embarking on processes of constitution-rewriting soon, the two countries could possibly join the group of those i…
The multi-faceted role of religious actors in democratization processes
The article comparatively investigates the role of religious actors in the democratization processes of five 'young' democracies from the Catholic, Protestant, Christian-Orthodox and Muslim world: West Germany after World War II (1945–1969), Georgia and Ukraine post-1987/9, Mali (post-1987), and Indonesia from 1998. The analysis provides an overview of the roles religious actors played in the erosion of authoritarian rule, the transition to democ…
Religious parties
The saliency of religious parties in recent democratic consolidation processes forces the discipline to reconsider key questions on party change: Under what conditions do (radical) religious parties moderate? Is their mere inclusion in the democratic process enough to result in their moderation? If so, exactly what mechanisms are at work here? What roles are played by intervening variables such as coalition politics and electoral systems? And if …
Regulation of 'Religion' and the 'Religious
This article compares the strategies through which Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Indonesia have regulated religion and addressed questions of what constitutes 'the religious' in the post-independence period. We show that the dominant approach pursued by the Indian state has been one of judicialization-the delegation of religious questions to the high courts-while in Indonesia it has predominantly been one of bureaucratization-the regul…
The multi-faceted role of religious actors in democratization processes
The article comparatively investigates the role of religious actors in the democratization processes of five 'young' democracies from the Catholic, Protestant, Christian-Orthodox and Muslim world: West Germany after World War II (1945–1969), Georgia and Ukraine post-1987/9, Mali (post-1987), and Indonesia from 1998. The analysis provides an overview of the roles religious actors played in the erosion of authoritarian rule, the transition to democ…
Studying Female Islamic Authority
This article introduces a special issue on female Islamic authority in contemporary Asia. It provides an overview of the literature on religious authority in Islam and briefly lays out which modes of female religious authority have been more accepted than others in the schools of jurisprudence. Based on the articles included in this issue, the introduction makes two chief observations. First, in contrast to the overwhelming consensus among expert…
Preaching Politics
A growing body of research demonstrates that political involvement by Christian religious leaders can undermine the religion's social influence. Do these negative consequences of politicization also extend to Islam? Contrary to scholarly and popular accounts that describe Islam as inherently political, we argue that Muslim religious leaders will weaken their religious authority when they engage with politics. We test this argument with a conjoint…
David Martin in Memoriam (1929-2019)
The Unification of Law and the Postcolonial State
The article analyzes the evolution of state law pluralism in the field of personal status law in India and Indonesia in the postcolonial era. Having inherited pluri-legal personal law systems from their colonial patrons, postindependence leaders in both countries vowed to eliminate and replace pluri-legal arrangements by uniform civil law systems that would not discriminate on the basis of ethnicity, custom, or religion. Despite their attempts at…
In the language of the Islamic sacred texts
The article focuses on the campaign for women's rights in the Iran of the 1990s on the basis of the reinterpretation of Islamic sacred texts. Reflecting on the discursive limits on legal discourse imposed by the current theocratic regime, secular and religious women in Iran have joined to frame arguments in favor of women's rights in Islamic terms rather than with reference to liberal human rights discourses. As women are excluded from reaching c…
In the language of the Islamic sacred texts
The article focuses on the campaign for women's rights in the Iran of the 1990s on the basis of the reinterpretation of Islamic sacred texts. Reflecting on the discursive limits on legal discourse imposed by the current theocratic regime, secular and religious women in Iran have joined to frame arguments in favor of women's rights in Islamic terms rather than with reference to liberal human rights discourses. As women are excluded from reaching c…
The multi-faceted role of religious actors in democratization processes
The article comparatively investigates the role of religious actors in the democratization processes of five 'young' democracies from the Catholic, Protestant, Christian-Orthodox and Muslim world: West Germany after World War II (1945–1969), Georgia and Ukraine post-1987/9, Mali (post-1987), and Indonesia from 1998. The analysis provides an overview of the roles religious actors played in the erosion of authoritarian rule, the transition to democ…
The Life of Two Mujtahidahs
This chapter introduces two Iranian female mujtahidahs , Nusr at Amīn (1886-1983) and Zuhrah Si fātī (1948-), who represent like few of their contemporaries the status of female religious authority in twentieth-century Iran, divided by the important cesura of the 1979 revolution. Both women's work was strongly influenced by the socio-political environment in and against which they defined themselves. A comparison of the two women's lives and work…
Religion‐State Relations and Democracy in Egypt and Tunisia
Until recently, political scientists still spoke of the “Arab-Democracy-Gap” (Stepan and Robertson 2003), pointing to the fact that all Muslim-majority democratizers were notably countries outside the Arab world. The Arab spring has changed this image. With Tunisia and Egypt having conducted relatively free parliamentary elections and embarking on processes of constitution-rewriting soon, the two countries could possibly join the group of those i…
Democracy and Islam in Indonesia
Diversity in Democracy
The articles assembled in this symposium share their roots in a workshop we organized at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISJ) in Onati, Spain, in June 2011. The workshop, titled “Legal Pluralism and Democracy. When Does Legal Pluralism Enhance, When Does It Erode Legitimacy of and Trust in Democratic Institutions?” examined the consequences of legal pluralism for various facets of democracy, from human rights and political …
Democracy and Islam in Indonesia
Indonesia's military government collapsed in 1998, igniting fears that economic, religious, and political conflicts would complicate any democratic transition. Yet in every year since 2006, the world's most populous Muslim country has received high marks from international democracy-ranking organizations. In this volume, political scientists, religious scholars, legal theorists, and anthropologists examine the theory and practice of Indonesia's d…
Religious parties
The saliency of religious parties in recent democratic consolidation processes forces the discipline to reconsider key questions on party change: Under what conditions do (radical) religious parties moderate? Is their mere inclusion in the democratic process enough to result in their moderation? If so, exactly what mechanisms are at work here? What roles are played by intervening variables such as coalition politics and electoral systems? And if …
Regulation of 'Religion' and the 'Religious
This article compares the strategies through which Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Indonesia have regulated religion and addressed questions of what constitutes 'the religious' in the post-independence period. We show that the dominant approach pursued by the Indian state has been one of judicialization-the delegation of religious questions to the high courts-while in Indonesia it has predominantly been one of bureaucratization-the regul…
Studying Female Islamic Authority
This article introduces a special issue on female Islamic authority in contemporary Asia. It provides an overview of the literature on religious authority in Islam and briefly lays out which modes of female religious authority have been more accepted than others in the schools of jurisprudence. Based on the articles included in this issue, the introduction makes two chief observations. First, in contrast to the overwhelming consensus among expert…
The Unification of Law and the Postcolonial State
The article analyzes the evolution of state law pluralism in the field of personal status law in India and Indonesia in the postcolonial era. Having inherited pluri-legal personal law systems from their colonial patrons, postindependence leaders in both countries vowed to eliminate and replace pluri-legal arrangements by uniform civil law systems that would not discriminate on the basis of ethnicity, custom, or religion. Despite their attempts at…
Constitutionalism in Rough Seas
Staat, Recht und Verfassung
The 4th edition of the first volume of this work provides an update of the commentary on the preamble and articles 1 to 19 in case law and literature. The structure of the book has been retained and its content supplemented by more recent developments, such as the implications of Europeanisation and digitalisation as well as the Corona pandemic. As of the 4th edition, Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf has taken over the editorship of the commentary.
Constitutional and Political Theory
The book is a first representative edition in English of Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde's writings on constitutional, legal, and political theory. As a German legal scholar and former judge on Germany's federal constitutional court, Böckenförde has shaped legal and political discourse in twentieth century Germany like few others. Böckenförde's oeuvre represents a classic strand of German political and legal thinking beyond Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmit…
De-centring Shiʿi Islam
In the introduction to this special issue, we make the case for ‘de-centring’ the study of Shiʿi Islam, conceptually, spatially and sociologically. After first noting the essentialization of Shiʿi identity within the contemporary public sphere, we question its spatialization within the modern world of nation-states and area studies, and contrast the physical and human geography of Shiʿi Islam. We then turn to the central theme of religious author…
Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde
In this introductory essay to a special section on ‘Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde: Inner-Catholic Critic and Advocate of Open Neutrality’, we outline the main features of Böckenförde’s thought with regard to law, religion, and democracy while also introducing the six articles that are part of the section. Böckenförde emerged early as an inner-Catholic critic that -prior to Vatican II- called on the church to accept the secular democratic state and o…
The Bureaucratization of Religion in Southeast Asia
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Secular Age Beyond the West
This book traces religion and secularity in eleven countries not shaped by Western Christianity (Japan, China, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Iran, Russia, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, and Morocco), and how they parallel or diverge from Charles Taylor's grand narrative of the North Atlantic world, A Secular Age (2007). In all eleven cases, the state - enhanced by post-colonial and post-imperial legacies - highly determines religious experience, by variabl…
Democratic pluralism, social cohesion and individual ethos in the secularized state
Carl Schmitt in Ernst‐Wolfgang Böckenförde's work
David Martin in Memoriam (1929-2019)
Human Rights and Reformist Islam
Human Rights and Reformist Islam critiques traditional Islamic approaches to the question of compatibility between human rights and Islam and argues instead for their reconciliation from the perspective of a reformist Islam. The book focuses on six controversial case studies: religious discrimination; gender discrimination; slavery; freedom of religion; punishment of apostasy; and arbitrary or harsh punishments. Explaining the strengths of struct…
Human Rights and Reformist Islam
Preaching Politics
A growing body of research demonstrates that political involvement by Christian religious leaders can undermine the religion's social influence. Do these negative consequences of politicization also extend to Islam? Contrary to scholarly and popular accounts that describe Islam as inherently political, we argue that Muslim religious leaders will weaken their religious authority when they engage with politics. We test this argument with a conjoint…
Comparative Sociology, Global History, and Contentious Politics
Charles Tilly is a towering figure in the social sciences. His work has influenced generations of scholars across disciplines, yet younger generations are often less familiar with his work. This is a lost opportunity given the analytical depth of Tilly's oeuvre. Much of his work on areas outside of state formation and social movements remains underutilized, while research agendas across the social sciences can be strengthened by building on his w…
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