Global Catholicism, Tolerance and the Open Society : an Empirical Study of the Value Systems of Roman Catholics

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Intro; Contents; About the Authors; List of Figure; List of Tables; List of Maps; List of Graphs; Chapter 1: The Failure of the Catholic Church in Postsecular Context?; Bringing the Church into the Twentieth Century; Between Jerusalem and Rome; From Enemy to Brother; The Foundations of Anti-Judaic Thought Were Laid in the New Testament; Jules Isaac: A New Era; Seelisberg; Beyond the Anti-Jewish Legacy; The Framework of the Present Study; Faith Lies Beyond Theology; Baumanś Retrotopia; Literature; Chapter 2: Developing the Research Strategy; Fukuyama: Beyond the Western Consensus of the 1990s The Role of the World Values Survey in Mapping the Global Value Landscapes of TodaySome Leading World Values Survey Studies on Global Catholicism; Current World Affairs Reasons for an Analysis on the Opinions of Active Global Catholics; Bergson, Maritain, Postwar Christian Democracy, and the Open Society; Outlining the Research Direction of the Empirics of the Present Study; Christianity Is the Most Persecuted Religion, Worldwide; Literature; Chapter 3: The Second Vatican Council in the Hearts and Minds of Global Catholics: The Open Society, Catholic Antisemitism, an ... ; Introduction Background: Studying (Catholic) AntisemitismData and Methods in Studying Catholic Antisemitism; Results: Toward a Nostra Aetate Index; The Antisemitism Among the Dominicantes (1): 19.60% Are Openly Antisemitic; The Antisemitism Among the Dominicantes (2): The Spirit of Nostra Aetate Has Only Partially Become a Reality in the ``Real Exi ... ; The Antisemitism Among the Dominicantes (3): ``Antizionism ́́Is Becoming Increasingly a Problem for Catholic-Jewish Relations; The Antisemitism Among the Dominicantes (4): Mixed Attitudes on Jewish Immigration The Antisemitism Among the Dominicantes (5): The Drivers of the Antisemitism of the Dominicantes by International Ecumenical C ... Conclusions and Prospects from This Chapter; Literature; Chapter 4: Global Catholicism, Civil Society, Democracy, and Mass Migration; Introduction; Background: Studying Catholicism in the Age of Populism; Data and Methods in Studying Catholicism and the Open Society; Results: Catholicism and the Open Society: What We Really Know from Global and European Surveys; Result 1: Roman Catholic Dominicantes and the Open Society Result 2: European Catholics Are Not the Forefront of European Tolerance: Evidence, Based on the European Social SurveyResult 3: The Global Evidence Based on the World Values Survey also Indicate that Only in a Limited Number of Countries, Catho ... ; Conclusion and Policy Perspectives from This Chapter; Literature; Chapter 5: The Open Society and Catholic Religious Tolerance; Introduction; Background: Studying Catholic Tolerance; Data and Methods in Studying Global Tolerance; Results: The Global Tolerance Index; Conclusion and Prospects from This Chapter; Literature