...Islam (feminism, gay rights, right to blasphemy) are at best not supported and at worst condemned by the Catholic Church and Protestant evangelicals in Europe. Of course, most of the...
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Prison religion
by Jonathan VanAntwerpen...manages to combine a balanced account of the trial and its background–informative, fair, and detailed–with wide-ranging reflections on the problems of religion, secularism, and the law. Interdisciplinary in the best...
Secularism: Its Content and Context
Secularism, lexical ordering, and resistance to dialogue
by Jeremy Webber...best justification for the ban is a political ideal: the policy seeks to create spheres of citizenship in which ostentatious markers of differentiation are excluded so that, in these spheres,...
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People make religions and religions make people
by John D. Boy...of us in the west know best, there are elements of dance, of play, of the exercise of power, of logic, poetry and morality; there are hermits and popes, inquisitors...
Sociology of religion
Institutional parochialism and the sociology of religion
by Stephen C. Poulson...best explains these patterns. Generally, normative isomorphic pressures tend to prevent change. This pressure is often tied to the professionalization process, which sets standards for membership in an academic community....
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Selfless shamanism
by Laura Duane...written record of prehistoric societies. But we have the next best thing: accounts from anthropologists who visited hunter-gatherer societies before they had been corrupted by much contact with modernity. These...
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The spirituality of Springsteen
by Ruth Braunstein...It is one of the best albums in American rock and roll, precisely for its I-survived-the-storm spirit. And there I was with America on Eid, a post-Ramadan fullness in my...
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Archbishop of Canterbury to step down
by Wei Zhu...I look forward, with that same support and inspiration, to continuing to serve the Church’s mission and witness as best I can in the years ahead. Having presided over a...
Christian Human Rights
Catholics, anti-Semitism, and the human rights swerve
by Giuliana Chamedes...is right that Christian human rights are best understood in the “transwar” perspective, as an attempt to use new words to stake out a position in Europe’s thirty-year civil war....