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Introduction: From the Social Lives of Secrecy to the Secret lives of the Social: Notes on Religion, Power, and the Public Paul Christopher Johnson and Hugh B. UrbanPart 1: Configurations of Religious Secrecy: Conceptual and Comparative Frameworks1. Mysticism and Secrecy Arthur Versluis2. Esotericism and Secrecy Kennet Granholm3. Gender, Sexuality, and Secrecy Hugh B. Urban4. Psychedelics and Secrecy Christopher Partridge5. Architectures of Secrecy Paul Christopher Johnson6. Secrecy, the Paranormal, and the Imaginal: The Remote Viewing Literature Jeffrey J. Kripal and Christopher SennPart 2: Secrecy as Religious Practice 7. Secrecy in Islam, Sufism, and Shi'ism Mark Sedgwick8. Concealing the Concealment: Towards a Theopolitics of Kabbalistic Esotericism Elliot R. Wolfson9. Keeping Secrets: The Social Practice of Gnostic Secrecy April D. DeConick10. Secrecy's Situational Ironies: Hiding and Its Consequences for Covert Buddhists in Japan Clark Chilson11. Notions of Secrecy and the Unknown/ Hidden in Chinese Religions Barend ter Haar12. Secrecy in South Asian Hindu Traditions: The Gods Love What is Occult Gordan Djurdjevic13. Reflections on Secrecy in Yolngu Religion Ian Keen14. AWO: The Nature of Secrecy in YoruÌbaì Religious Traditions: Conversations with Ifa Diviners Jacob K. OluponaPart 3: Secrecy and the Politics of the Present 15. Secrecy and Freemasonry Henrik Bogdan16. The Sacred, the Secret, and the Sinister in the Latter-day Saint Tradition Christopher James Blythe17. The High Magic of Jesus Christ: Materializing Secrets in Brazil's Valley of the Dawn Kelly E. Hayes18. Secrecy, Sex Abuse, and The Practice of Priesthood John C. Seitz19. From Resistance to Terror: The Open Secret of Jonestown Rebecca MoorePart 4: Secrecy and Social Resistance20. Crypto-Paganism in the Late Antique World: Models of Concealment in a Christian Empire, Fourth to Sixth Century CE David Frankfurter21. Hopi Knowledge and the Ethnographic Allure of Secrets Adam Fulton Johnson22. Secrecy, Spirit Work, and Women's Fugitive Speech in the Creolophone Caribbean Elizabeth McAlister23. Lifting the EucharisticVeil: Allan Rohan Crite as Afro-Anglican Mystagogue Hugh R. Page, Jr. and Stephen C. FinleyPart 5: Secrecy, Terrorism, and Surveillance24. Weaponizing Secrecy: The FBI's War on Black Radical Religion Sylvester Johnson25. Varieties of Secrecy and Symbolism in American White Power Movements Damon Berry26. The Islamic State and the Management of Secrecy Haroro J. Ingram and Craig Whiteside27. Conspiracy Theories about Secret Religions: Imagining the Other David G. Robertson28. Xenophobia and Conspiracism after 9/11 Michael Barkun29. Imagining Secret Wars Mark Juergensmeyer.Index

Through the history of religions, their holy texts and norms have been sources of men's images in societies and have presented forms of masculinity that have been expressed in religious acts. This paper examines how this reciprocal influence has shifted from the perspective of the sociology of religion and history of religion. It is the introduction to an edited volume which brings together research on religious traditions from experts in the field. The article analyses similarities and differences in the interwoven relationships between specific religions and between concepts and practices of masculinity in different societies and cultures, such as Western forms of Christianity during the last centuries, European Judaism and Arabic Islam during the Middle Ages and South Asian Buddhism and Hinduism. It is the first comparative research on a variety of religions and forms of masculinity, and thereby contributes to the growing field of interdisciplinary research on (critical) men's studies in Religion.

This article aims to delve into the mediatory role of religion in our contemporary world in that it investigates how religion is shaped by and shapes human beings in their encoun­ ter with modernity, its evolving characteristics, institutional ar­ rangements, multi-locational interests and ideological compul­ sions. To achieve this goal, it begins its inquiry by focusing on the genealogy of political secularism and demonstrates the pit­ falls of the 'wall of separation between state and religion' and the implications it bears upon the treatment, space and situatedness religion obtains in different nation states at different historical times. It further discusses the relationship between European colonial powers and the notion of religion by highlighting how the modern sense o f religion emanating from Europe was proselytised, historicised and re-historicised in colonial coun­ tries since seventeenth century till our present times. The article also calls for the recognition of the proactive role of religion in the secular modem state, especially for its citizens who have become the unfortunate victims of the state's policies and administrative decisions.

Wydana w 1779 roku, w Berlinie publikacja Johanna Andreasa Riema (1749-1814) - niemieckiego protestanckiego teologa, duchownego i publicysty okresu oświecenia. Działalność publicystyczna Riema była bardzo zróżnicowana, pisał m.in. prace z zakresu historii, teologii, biblistyki i polityki. Niniejszy dokument - Vertraglichkeit der Religion mit der Politik der Staaten. Nebst dem Entwurf eines Werks: Clima, - Staatsverfassung, - Nationalgeist, - Religion und Wissenschaften; Welches ist ihr wechselseitiges Verhältniss? jest kontynuacją i uzupełnieniem do publikacji Einfluß der Religion auf das Staatssystem der Völker (Berlin, 1778). Riem zainspirowanymi studiami nad polityką i religią zwraca się w publikacji ku przyczynom, które jego zdaniem są odpowiedzialne za różnice w tych dziedzinach oraz ich wzajemnych współzależnościach między różnymi narodami. Dużą część dokumentu zajmuje szkic planowanej, ale nigdy nie opublikowanej pracy, w której chciał pokazać w stylu teorii Monteskiusza (W koncepcji tej Monteskiusz wśród czynników geograficznych warunkujących losy tworów politycznych najważniejsze miejsce, choć, wbrew temu, co nieraz pisano, nie wyłączność przyznawał klimatowi.) wpływ czynników geograficznych (klimatu) na bieg wydarzeń dziejowych, procesy polityczne, różnice w gospodarce państwowej, duchu narodowym, religii i naukach różnych narodów.

En el marco de la Cátedra François Houtart 2018, invitamos al catedrático Juan José Tamayo a reflexionar sobre el rol de la religión dentro del análisis de género y los derechos humanos. La entrevista se desarrolla mediante un diálogo abierto entre Tamayo y las dos investigadoras, partiendo desde cómo el catedrático conceptualiza el feminismo y ha llegado a los estudios feministas, para luego abordar la construcción de las masculinidades, tanto aquellas liberadas así como las "masculinidades sagradas", llegando a analizar la relación entre teología y patriarcado, así como los vínculos entre teología de la liberación y feminismo.

Bringing together in one collection his most influential essays spanning two decades of research, Jeffrey Haynes seeks to explore the complex relationship between religion, politics and international relations.

"The Body in Religion: Cross-Cultural Perspectives surveys influential ways in which the body is imagined and deployed in religious practices and beliefs across the globe. Filling the gap for an up-to-date and comparative approach to theories and practices of the body in religion, this book explores the cultural influences on embodiment and their implications for religious institutions and spirituality. Examples are drawn from religions such as Jainism, Confucianism, Daoism, Shintoism, Paganism, Aboriginal, African, and Native American religions, in addition to the five major religions of the world. Topics covered include: - Gender and sexuality - Female modesty and dress codes - Circumcision and menstruation rituals - God language and erotic desire - Death, dying, and burial rites - Disciplining the body through prayer, yoga, and meditation - Feasting and fasting rituals Illustrated throughout with over 60 images, The Body in Religion is designed for course use in religious studies as well as interdisciplinary courses across the humanities and the social sciences. Further online resources include a sample syllabus"--

In this book, Michael Perry addresses several fundamental questions about the proper role of religion in the politics of a liberal democracy, which is a central, recurring issue in the politics of the United States. The controversy about religion in politics comprises both constitutional and moral questions. According to the constitutional law of the United States, government may not "establish" religion. Given this "nonestablishment" requirement, what role (if any) is it constitutionally permissible for religion to play in the politics of the United States? Does a legislator or other public official, or even an ordinary citizen, violate the nonestablishment requirement by presenting a religious argument in public debate about what political choice to make? Not every liberal democracy is constitutionally committed to an ideal of nonestablishment. Even in the absence of such a constitutional requirement, however, fundamental political-moral questions remain. Is it morally appropriate for citizens - in particular, legislators and other public officials - to present religious arguments about the morality of human conduct in public political debate? Is it morally appropriate for them to rely on such arguments in making a political choice? In addressing these and other questions, Perry criticizes recent work by Kent Greenawalt, John Rawls, and John Finnis. -- Provided by publisher

Recently, a number of methods for re-thinking ideas as part of the rest of the natural world (including religious ideas and values) have appeared on the religious studies landscape. Notions of emergence theory, new materialisms, and object-oriented ontologies are geared toward thinking about religion and science, ideas and nature, values and matter from within what Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari call a "single plane" of existence. Others within the field of "religion and ecology/nature" are skeptical of these "postmodern" methods and theories. These skeptics claim that ideas from various religious traditions such as pantheism, panentheism, animism, and even co-dependent arising already do the intellectual work of re-thinking "religion and nature" together onto an immanent plane of existence. This article will begin to explore some of the links and differences between older traditions of thinking immanence with more recent post-modern moves toward spatially-oriented ways of thinking. Rather than being a final reflection on these connections and differences, this article calls for a more sustained comparative study of these different spatial approaches.

"This book introduces a practice based and contextually sensitive approach to studying lived religion, employing cases from diverse disciplines, locations, and traditions and providing accessible guides to students and novice researchers eager to begin their own exploration of religious and spiritual practices"--

1. Science international (beyond the West) : the ups and downs of trans-cultural science / Varadaraja V. Raman -- 2. Zen, Suzuki and the art of psychotherapy / Anne Harrington -- 3. India's response to Darwin / David L. Gosling -- 4. Perspectives on the relation between science and religion in India / A. Raghuramaraju -- 5. Jagadish Chandra Bose and Vedantic science / C. Mackenzie Brown -- 6. Ancient Indian philosophy meets modern western science : discussions of causality and consciousness in the colonial Indian academy / Nalini Bhushan -- 7. Being religious, being scientific : science, religion and atheism in contemporary India / Renny Thomas -- 8. Betwixt science and religion - East and West : Jesuits in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century southern India / John B. Lourdusamy -- 9. Exploring the contemporary debate over Islam and science in India : portrait of the Aligarh School / Stefano Bigliardi -- 10. How scientific was Islamic science? A case study in the alchemy of al-Razi / Paul Greenham -- 11. Western influences on Greek scholars : the scientific education of Greek Orthodox during the seventeenth century / Efthymios Nicolaidis.