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Antologien Religionens tilbakekomst i offentligheten? (red. Inger Furseth) er et resultat av det femårige forskningsprosjektet "The role of religion in the public sphere. A comparative study of the five Nordic countries", eller NOREL, som gikk i årene 2009-2014. Som med flere andre studier utkommet de senere årene, deriblant Døvings og Krafts Religion i pressen (2013), er formålet med boka å belyse religionens plass i det offentlige rom.

In a society overrun by commercial clutter, religion has become yet another product sold in the consumer marketplace, and faiths of all kinds must compete with a myriad of more entertaining and more convenient leisure activities. Brands of Faith argues that in order to compete effectively faiths have had to become brands ? easily recognizable symbols and spokespeople with whom religious prospects can make immediate connections. Mara Einstein shows how religious branding has expanded over the past twenty years to create a blended world of commerce and faith where the sacred becomes secular and

Sacred Violence and Religious Violence examines the place that ideology or political religion plays in legitimizing violence to bring about a purer world. In particular, the book examines Islamism and the western secular, liberal democratic responses to it.

Die Ringvorlesung "Rückkehr der Religion oder säkulare Kultur? Kultur- und Religionssoziologie heute" am Institut für Soziologie der Freien Universität Berlin (Sommersemester 2006) war Grundlage für den vorliegenden gleichnamigen Band. Die Autoren behandeln zunächst allgemeine soziologische Fragen in Bezug auf "Universalität und Territorialität", um sich dann spezifischer mit den Bereichen der Kultursoziologie, der Religionssoziologie und abschließend mit der Frage nach "Kultur und Religion – zu ihrem Sitz im Leben" zu beschäftigen. Trotz unterschiedlicher Themenschwerpunkte und Herangehensweisen ist allen Beiträgen die Fragestellung nach der Positionierung des Faches Soziologie in der Wissenschaft inhärent. Durch den Band wird es Studierenden der Kultur- und Religionssoziologie sowie Studierenden der Soziologie und Religionswissenschaften möglich, einen Überblick über die verschiedenen Themenfelder der Soziologie in Bezug auf Religion und Kultur zu bekommen, der bei Interesse anhand der ausführlichen Literaturangaben am Ende jedes Aufsatzes vertieft werden kann. ; This volume is based on the eponymous lecture series ("Come-back of Religion or Secular Culture? Sociology of Culture and Religion Today") that took place at the Freie Universität Berlin's Institute of Sociology in summer 2006. After laying out some general issues pertaining to 'universality' and 'territoriality', the authors focus on specific challenges confronting the sociologies of culture and religion. Finally, they analyse the place of culture and religion in our lives. The articles cover a variety of themes and methodologies, but each addresses the inherent question: What is the position of sociology in the sciences?This volume is recommended for students seeking an overview of current issues in the sociology of religion and culture, and includes bibliographies to guide more in-depth research.

Exploring how Christianity became a world religion, this brief history examines Christian missions and their relationship to the current globalization of Christianity.* A short and enlightening history of Christian missions: a phenomenon that many say reflects the single most important intercultural movement over a sustained period of human history* Offers a thematic overview that takes into account the political, cultural, social, and theological issues* Discusses the significance of missions to the globalization of Christianity, and broadens our understanding of Christianity as a multicultural world religion* Helps Western audiences understand the meaning of mission as a historical process* Contains several new maps that illustrate demographic shifts in world Christianity

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Republicanism and Religion -- 2 Foundations of American Liberty and Rule of Law -- 3 Education and the American Founding -- 4 Americanism -- 5 Carrying Coals to Newcastle -- 6 Medieval Rationalism or Mystic Philosophy? -- 7 Gnosticism and Modernity -- 8 The Spirit of Voegelin's Late Work -- 9 Truth and the Experience of Epoch in History -- Bibliographical Appendix -- Index.

"Measuring Religion in Terms of Belonging, Beliefs, and Behavior" published on by Oxford University Press.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Everyday Miracles: The Study of Lived Religion -- CHAPTER TWO. "What Scripture Tells Me": Spontaneity and Regulation within the Catholic Charismatic Renewal -- CHAPTER THREE. Family Strategies and Religious Practice: Baptism and the Lord's Supper in Early New England -- CHAPTER FOUR. Practices of Exchange: From Market Culture to Gift Economy in the Interpretation of American Religion -- CHAPTER FIVE. Lived Religion and the Dead: The Cremation Movement in Gilded Age America -- CHAPTER SIX. Coffee, Mrs. Cowman, and the Devotional Life of Women Reading in the Desert -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Uses of Ojibwa Hymn-Singing at White Earth: Toward a History of Practice -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Submissive Wives, Wounded Daughters, and Female Soldiers: Prayer and Christian Womanhood in Women's Aglow Fellowship -- CHAPTER NINE. Golden Rule Christianity: Lived Religion in the American Mainstream -- CHAPTER TEN. Getting (Not Too) Close to Nature: Modern Homesteading as Lived Religion in America -- Contributors -- Index -- About the Editor

The speed and the scale with which traditional religions in China have been revived and new spiritual movements have emerged in recent decades make it difficult for scholars to stay up-to-date on the religious transformations within Chinese society. 0This atlas presents a bird's-eye view of the religious landscape in China today. In more than 150 full-color maps and six different case studies, it maps the officially registered venues of China's major religions - Buddhism, Christianity (Protestant and Catholic), Daoism, and Islam - at the national, provincial, and county levels. The atlas also outlines the contours of Confucianism, folk religion, and the Mao cult. Further, it describes the main organizations, beliefs, and rituals of China's main religions, as well as the social and demographic characteristics of their respective believers. Putting multiple religions side by side in their contexts, this atlas deploys the latest qualitative, quantitative and spatial data acquired from censuses, surveys, and fieldwork to offer a definitive overview of religion in contemporary China

"This monograph is based on archival research and close readings of James Joyce's and W. B. Yeats's poetics and political aesthetics. Georges Sorel's theory of social myth is used as a starting point for exploring the ways in which the experience of art, like that of social myth, can be seen as a form of religious experience. The theorisation of the experience of art as a form of religious experience illuminates the role of art in engendering social attitudes in opposition to economic materialism and capitalism. Based on these analyses, the arguments explore the ways in which a theory that defines the experience of art as a form of religious experience can help us to answer three questions of pressing interest for the contemporary moment: How can we read cultural texts to imagine forms of social belonging through which to challenge the isolation of economic materialism? How can we imagine cultural texts to create the collective relations necessary for social change in global capitalism? How can we define an ethics of satisfaction that does not relate to this capital modernity?"--

Preliminary Material -- Vorwort -- Einleitung -- Die Debatte um religiöse Überzeugungen und öffentliche Vernunft – Standpunkte und Argumenttypen -- Die Relevanz der "postsäkularen" Wende -- Rettende Aneignung? – Sprachanalytische Anfragen -- Religion in der politischen Öffentlichkeit: Plädoyer für einen Moderaten Exklusivismus -- Fazit -- Literaturverzeichnis -- Namensregister.