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little better) repeated, bloody and failed attempts at conquest. At the other extreme, alliance with England might become a bloodless conquest, or at least a ‘special relationship’ bringing little profit or honour to the junior partner. Both of these solutions had their advocates in medieval Scotland, but when forced to choose, the Scots consistently chose defiance. England’s record of aggression was too well known for it to be trusted as an ally. Scotland instead spun itself a wider international web: trading across the North Sea to the Netherlands, Germany, Scandinavia
never was such beauty as Sister Teresa’s with her classic profile, her face as finely moulded, as purely coloured as a Madonna lily, or Mother Joseph’s with her opulent golden colouring, the magnificent intense blue of her eyes’.97 In Kate O’Brien’s early twentieth-century convent school, one sister had a particular following; some of the girls fainted or feigned illness so that she would ‘carry them out, and, one supposes, sponge their brows and generally restore them’.98 The convent school became, for some, a place of special relationships or ‘adorations’ between
-denominational NUI constituent colleges as providing a ‘sufficiently safe’ environment for Catholic students to describing UCD as the ‘lawful heir’ to the Catholic University that had preceded it. Facilitating this development were, first, the ‘very special relationship’ (McCartney 1999: 201) of the archbishop to UCD’s President from 1947 to 1964, Michael Tierney, and, second, the liaison committee comprising NUI college presidents and selected bishops set up in 1950. Here the initiative had been taken by the college presidents, who had ‘agreed that it was desirable to ask the
), Global Mufti, pp. 27–53; H. Tammam, ‘Yusuf Qaradawi and the Muslim Brothers: the nature of a special relationship’, in ibid., pp. 55–83; S. Helfont, Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Islam and Modernity (Tel-Aviv: Moshe Dayan Center, 2009); B. Gräf, ‘IslamOnline. net: Independent, interactive, popular’, Arab Media & Society (January 2008), 1–4: http://arabmediasociety.sqgd.co.uk/articles/downloads/20080115032719_ AMS4_Bettina_Graf.pdf (accessed June 2012); U. Shavit, The New Imagined Community: Advanced Media Technologies and the Construction of National and Muslim Identities of
that, while national industrial policy shifted radically away from protectionism, politics of the clientelistic and localistic variety continued to be a feature of its implementation, with the IDA replacing Industry and Commerce in the patron’s role. In ‘Laketown’, a south Mayo locality whose development association was the subject of a case study by Curtin and Varley (1986), ‘the consensus was that, given the competition for outside industry, the Association’s only hope was to strike up a special relationship with the state so that Laketown would get favoured
utmost of your power maintain the Laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel? Will you to the utmost of your power maintain in the United Kingdom the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law? (HMSO 1937, Monarchy 2012e) As a result of the 1937 formulation, the dominions unequivocally ceased to have a church that might claim to be established or have a special relationship with the monarch – the monarchy continued as a Christian one, but no one church had special constitutional status outside of the UK. The monarch still affirmed that he or she was a
people and the insight which their election and roles have afforded them into the national institutions, the population and its values and beliefs. Huntington (2005: 103–7) argues that this generalised religious sensitivity is based on common national symbols, ceremonies and loyalties and can unite diverse faiths, denominations and the agnostic in a belief that the USA has a special relationship with, and destiny under, God. Bellah proposes that American civil religion is sparse with abstract tenets. It has no official supporting legal or constitutional order, and it
multi-denominational weekly Time for Reflection (TFR) designed to reflect the diversity of religious belief and the relative support for denominations and faiths among the Scottish population as evident in the results of the 2001 census. While the Church of Scotland, as the church with the most adherents in Scotland according to the 2001 census, takes the largest proportion of the places in TFR, it has no other formal or special relationship with the Parliament although it does conduct a ‘kirkin’ of the Parliament service at the inception of each new four-year session
the end of the twelfth century, such a possibility was totally unacceptable. R Yitzhak states that, because Goldin, Apostasy and Jewish identity.indd 57 20/08/2014 12:34:44 58 Apostasy and Jewish identity the converted Jew is now a Gentile, it is permitted to loan him money at interest. In a responsum by R. Yitzhak devoted to the complex issue of the ‘son of a converted woman,’ he explains at great length and in great detail his view regarding the difficulties that derive from the special relationship to Jews who converted to Christianity.12 He notes that he
a portion of their property to finance military services and other undertakings for the king; and they could take an interest in exchanging some estates for others – land held by laity that was more advantageously located.9 The king, for his part, had in the privilege of immunity (which all bishoprics had possessed since the time of Louis the Pious) an instrument on hand for marking off the land of individual churches, to set it in a special relationship with his own royal person and to protect it from lay encroachment. In this way the interests of bishops and