Moralpolitik und Religion: Die Abtreibungskontroversen in Polen, Italien und Spanien

Christian churches and social welfare in secular times: How goal congruence shapes religious involvement in morality-based social services

“…Scholarship focuses on the impact of the Catholic Church on policy output because fundamentalist Protestantism is not as common in Europe, and Catholics are considered the most influential and most conservative religious group. This literature shows that the political influence of churches varies across cultural and institutional contexts, as well as across morality policy issues (Engeli et al ., 2012; Hennig, 2012; Knill et al ., 2014; Grzymała-Busse, 2015; Ozzano and Giorgi, 2016). Generally, the research draws on the notion that the church-state relationship determines the extent to which the political and the religious spheres interact.…”

Die deutschsprachige Sexualwissenschaft. Bestandsaufnahme und Ausblick

“…Luc Boltanski (2007) hat dazu differenziert argumentiert. Im heutigen Europa sind sehr unterschiedliche rechtliche, moralische und versorgungsmäßige Ausgangsbedingungen zu finden (Obinger-Gindulis, 2015;Hennig, 2015). Zwar dominierten in Es entstand ein gesellschaftliches Klima, eine öffentliche Meinung, in die die § § 218ff.…”

Who can talk about abortion? Information, offence, freedom of speech, and the advertising ban in Germany

“…There are also extensive links with groups of the German right (Sanders et al, 2018). The life-protectors are engaged with international networks such as the pan-European ‘One of Us’ movement that mobilised more than a million signatures for an EU-wide ban of the termination of embryos (Hennig, 2014: 95) and the ‘International Organisation for the Family’, known for its controversial annual World Congress (Gürgen et al, 2018). As such, their activism forms part of the broader intersection of anti-gender activism and the far-right seen across Europe (Paternotte and Kuhar, 2018).…”

“…The precise shape of these debates is heavily influenced by local institutional settings (Halfmann, 2011). Abortion has been discussed in the context of the role of religion in politics (Dworkin, 1993;Hennig, 2014), from the perspective of personhood and bioethics (Greasley and Kaczor, 2018;Habermas, 2001), in terms of sex equality rights (Siegel, 1995), and in terms of Rawlsian thought experiments (Seery, 2001).…”