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"Sex abuse happens in all communities, but American minority religions often face disproportionate allegations of sexual abuse. Why, in a country that consistently fails to acknowledge-much less address-the sexual abuse of women and children, do American religious outsiders so often face allegations of sexual misconduct? Why does the American public presume to know "what's really going on" in minority religious communities? Why are sex abuse allegations such an effective way to discredit people on America's religious margins? What makes Americans so willing, so eager to identify religion as the cause of sex abuse? Abusing Religion argues that sex abuse in minority religious communities is an American problem, not (merely) a religious one"--

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Arjun Appadurai and Michael Lambek (Jordan Kynes) -- Part 1. Religion, Gender, Body and Aesthetics: Stagnation or Change in the Authority over Religious Knowledge Production (Vanessa Rau) -- Chapter 3. Feminine power and agency in the Ilê Axé Oxum Abalô (Inga Scharf da Silva) -- Chapter 4. Queering the Trinity (Teresa Forcades) -- Chapter 5. Dead or Dying: Jewish Religious Cultures and Brain Death as the Modern Mind-Body Dualism (Sarah Werren) -- Chapter 6. Religion, interdependency and the ethics of inhabiting in Jill Soloway's »Transparent« (Stefan Hunglinger) -- Chapter 7. Contesting Religion, or: The Impossibility of Secular Singing (Vanessa Rau) -- Part 2. Religion and Economics – Interaction of Two Discursive Spheres (Philipp Öhlmann) -- Chapter 8. Neoliberal Technologies, Intimacy and the Becoming of the Sacred (Céline Righi) -- Chapter 9. Faith and Professionalism in Humanitarian Encounters in Post-Earthquake Haiti (Andrea Steinke) -- Chapter 10. Notions of Development in African Initiated Churches and their Implications for Development Policy (Philipp Öhlmann, Marie-Luise Frost, Wilhelm Gräb) -- Part 3. The Praxis of Religion, Theologies and Knowledge Production: Overcoming the Dichotomy between Inside and Outside Perspective(s) on Religion (Julian Hensold, Rosa-Coco Schinagl) -- Chapter 11. The Study of Religion as the Study of Discourse Construction (Gerhard van den Heever) -- Chapter 12. Beyond a Dichotomy of Perspectives. Understanding Religion on the Base of Paul Natorp's »Logic of Boundary« (Julian Hensold) -- Chapter 13. Scientific Spirituality«: The Religion for Global Thought Transformation(Manaswita Singh) -- Chapter 14. An Islamic Theology of Culture: Nizari Ismaili Thought in the 21st Century (Mohammad Magout) -- Part 4. Religion, Politics and Power — Decentered analyses (Jordan Kynes, Adela Taleb) -- Chapter 15. Religious or political – Does it matter at all? The Analysis of a Blessing Prayer-Chain for the Hungarian Prime Minister (Anna Vancsó) -- Chapter 16. Rethinking the Religion/Secularism Binary in World Politics (Md. Abdul Gaffar) -- Chapter 17. Making Global Connections: Reflections on Teaching Islam and Middle Eastern History (Arun Rasiah) -- Chapter 18. Configurations of European Muslim Subjectivities on the European Union Level (Adela Taleb) -- Chapter 19. Science and Ideology: The History of Science in the French Epistemological Tradition as Polemical Platform for the Anticolonial Intellectual Project of Muhammad 'Abed al-Jabri (Jordan Kynes).

This volume explores how religious leaders can contribute to cultures of peace around the world. The essays are written by leading and emerging scholars and practitioners who have lived, taught, or worked in the areas of conflict about which they write. Connecting the theory and practice of religious peacebuilding to illuminate key challenges facing interreligious dialogue and interreligious peace work, the volume is explicitly interreligious, intercultural, and global in perspective. The chapters approach religion and peace from the vantage point of security studies, sociology, ethics, ecology, theology, and philosophy. A foreword by David Smock, the Vice President of Governance, Law and Society and Director of the Religion and Peacebuilding Center at the United States Institute of Peace, outlines the current state of the field.

1. Introduction -- 2. Adult Anxieties and Generational Blind Spots: Re-centring Childhood in the Sociology of Religion -- 3. On Concepts and Agency: Negotiating Religion and Nonreligion in School -- 4. The School Family: Rituals of Solidarity, Belonging and Cooperation -- 5. Doing Good': Children's Ethical Formation through the Everyday -- 6. On Silence, Candles, Jelly Timers and Enya: Creating Sacred Spaces in Collective Worship -- 7. Conclusion. .

Intro -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Religion Box on the National Identity Card: Being Compelled to Reveal One's Religion and Beliefs -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 International Law Standards -- 2.2.1 European Court of Human Rights' Case Law -- 2.3 Turkey's Obligations -- 2.3.1 Turkish Law -- 2.3.2 Steps Taken After the Sinan Işık v. Turkey Judgment -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 3: The Military-Nation and Conscientious Objectors -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 International Law Standards -- 3.3 Turkey's Obligations -- 3.3.1 Turkish Law -- 3.3.2 Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Aspects of Militarism -- 3.3.3 Homosexual Conscientious Objectors and the Unfit Report -- 3.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Unresolved Issue: Compulsory Religious Education -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 International Law Standards -- 4.2.1 European Court of Human Rights' Case Law -- 4.3 Turkey's Obligations -- 4.3.1 The History of Religious Education in Turkey -- 4.3.2 Turkish Law -- 4.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Recognition of Faith Groups and the Opening of Places of Worship -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 International Law Standards -- 5.2.1 European Court of Human Rights' Case Law -- 5.2.2 The EU and the Venice Commission -- 5.3 Turkey's Obligations -- 5.3.1 Turkish Law -- 5.3.1.1 Planning Regulations -- 5.3.1.2 Legal Personality -- 5.3.1.3 The Appointment of Religious Leaders -- 5.3.1.4 Teaching -- 5.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 6: The Manifestation of Religious Belief in the Public Sphere: Religious Symbols and Dress -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 International Law Standards -- 6.2.1 The European Court of Human Rights' Case Law -- 6.3 Turkey's Obligations -- 6.4 Conclusion -- Index.

WITH DIMINISHING GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT IN SOCIAL PROGRAMS AT HOME AND IN DEVELOPMENT AID PROGRAMS ABROAD, THE IMPORTANCE OF NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (NGO'S) IS INCREASING. NGO'S WITH A RELIGIOUS ORIENTATION HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR MAKING SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT ARENA. IN FACT, THEY MAY PROVE TO BE THE MOST EFFECTIVE AND LASTING OF DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES.

A hot sociopolitical issue today is the extent to which religions should be publicly represented. This text discusses the «state of the question» critically focusing on the main and common argument used by all the experts: liberty of conscience understood as freedom of choice. We are not allowed to identify both kinds of freedom without erasing the necessary division between religion and politics. Nevertheless, the elimination of this division not only occurs in practice but also in the theoretical outlines of the advocates of secularism based on freedom of choice. As the whole question concerns the «monotheism of reason», the philosophical discourse should not be a simple mediator between the different parts. ; Un problema sociopolítico candente es el grado de representatividad pública que merezcan las religiones. Esta nota despliega el «estado de la cuestión» vertebrándolo en actitud crítica hacia el argumento básico común a los distintos interlocutores: la libertad de conciencia entendida como libertad de elección. No cabe identificarlas sin cancelar así la exigida separación entre lo religioso y lo político. Ahora bien, tal cancelación no solo se esté dando en la práctica, sino en los esquemas teóricos de quienes apoyan la laicidad desde dicha libertad para elegir. Como todo ello concierne al «monoteísmo de la razón», el discurso filosófico al respecto no debería quedarse en simple mediador entre las partes.