This section of the WWW Virtual Library presents over 1,100 annotated links in a range of international affairs topics. It is maintained by Wayne A. Selcher, Professor of International Studies, Department of Political Science, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA
Religion and politics share a common concern: the order of human beings in the social world in order to avoid the problem of chaos. If at least one definition of politics is the means by which we order our community and even our personal conduct through the formulation and acceptance of certain rules, laws, and institutions that oversee them, then religion has always had a political function by structuring the world—both inner and outer—in order to provide or enforce some kind of organizing order and meaning of the community. Dominating premodern or pre-Enlightenment concepts of religion and religious life was the notion that the individual was ensconced in a broader order of things, one ordained supernaturally that structured communal relationships as well as personal attitudes toward authority and social power by linking that order of things to some transcendental authority. Religion possessed a political function precisely because it served as the undergirding rationalization for law and the ways that social relationships were governed and organized within the community.
Also includes the Austin College Newspaper Collection, with over 400 issues written, edited, and published by Austin College students. Newspapers in the collection include: The Kangaroo, 1918-1968; The Hopper, 1972-1981; and The AC Observer, 1982-2006.
The National Review offers complete indexing & abstracting and full text coverage for all issues of the journal back to the first issue in 1955 through to the present. The National Review has been a leading journal of opinion since its inception in 1955. The publication consistently provides insightful and unique coverage of political, economic, social, and cultural issues and trends, and remains one of the leading sources in this regard.
