...another to allow its tentacles into the Church itself. To combat that tendency, the Church has struggled to centralize its own internal codes. Most importantly, a Code of Canon Law...
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Four patriarchs and a Baptist preacher
by Brittany Pheiffer Noble and Wei Zhu...a dynamic and global communion, rising above petty political squabbles, much as it did during the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia. Citing the example of Montenegro, which is now...
Book introductions
The Politics of Islamic Law: An introduction
by Iza Hussin...in the late nineteenth century with colonial codes that defined Islamic law within the confines of marriage, divorce, inheritance, and ritual. These codes later became a basis for Muslim efforts...
Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon
Spirituality: what remains?
by Webb Keane...opposed to religion, which is identified with “exclusive rituals, legislating hierarchies, codes of membership.” Spirituality, by contrast, would presumably be what remains once these impediments have been removed. It is...
Mere Civility
Civility, identity, and agency
by Jeffrey Collins...promoted a robust, if at times coded, assault on the coherence of Trinitarian orthodoxy. These writings did not exemplify or suggest “civil silence” as to Hobbes’s own dissenting religious opinions....
The headscarf controversy
The headscarf and citizenship in Turkey
by Ayse Kadioglu...robe The early republican elite in Turkey showed a great distaste for religion. They tried to diminish the religious outlook of women by embracing Western dress codes. In the end,...
Sociology of religion
Toward a new sociology of religion
by Peggy Levitt, Courtney Bender, David Smilde and Wendy Cadge...portable system of codes that travel well across societies, times, and spaces, our interest in these concepts should include the processes and mechanisms through which some religious concepts (but not...
Aggressive prayers, curses, and maledictions
Charismatic malediction, or martyrdom in antebellum America
by Caleb Smith...codes), animated by a double faith in God and in something called posterity. The self-styled martyrs appealed from the courts of law not only to the Almighty but also to...