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Front Matter -- Contents -- Introduction /Catherine Holtmann -- Issues in the Research on Religion and Family Violence -- Clergy, Congregations, and the Response to Domestic Violence in Families /Steve McMullin -- Who Cares? Religious Immigrant Women, Social Networks, and Family Violence /Catherine Holtmann -- "The kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these": Corporal Punishment and the Move towards Non-violent Discipline in Christian Parenting /Susan Nunn and and Emma Robinson -- Responding to Unique Lived Realities: The Role of Intersectional Complexities in Shelter Experiences /Jolyne H. Roy -- Religious Perpetrators of Family Violence -- Portraying the Violence of Men through the Beauty of Stained Glass /Nancy Nason-Clark -- Aboriginal Men, Violence, and Spirituality: "A big part of who we are is the spiritual part" /Barbara Fisher-Townsend -- "Guru Pedophiles", Neo-Polygamists, and Predatory Prophets: Exploring the Sex Scandals and Abuse Allegations Concerning "Cults"/NRMs, 1993–2017 /Susan J. Palmer -- Family Violence, Religion, and Legal Pluralism -- The Legal Status of Muslim Women in Israel Undergoing the Experience of Divorce: Static or Dynamic? /Pascale Fournier and Victoria Snyers -- The State, the Household, and Religious Divorce in Lebanon: Women's Everyday Struggles /Pascale Fournier , Farah Malek-Bakouche and Eve Laoun -- In the Name of God? 'Get' Refusal as Domestic Abuse /Yael Machtinger -- Conclusion /Nancy Nason-Clark.

The lost tribes of Israel -- Jewish accounts and Christian traditions -- The mythography of Africa -- The legend of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba -- Blacks and Jews, the archetypal others -- Encountering and reinventing the Africans and the Jews in the colonial era, 15th to 19th century -- Appropriating Jewish history by the African diaspora, 19th to 20th century -- Historical narratives of a Jewish presence in sub-Saharan Africa -- African Jews in western and central Africa -- African Jews in eastern and southern Africa -- Ancient myths and modern phenomena

"The central argument of this volume is that the influence of religion on politics and policy in the United States is mediated by and through political institutions such as Congress, the presidency, the courts, and bureaucracy. The great 20th century social movements, such as Prohibition and the Civil Rights Movement for African Americans, were informed by religious values and interests brought into the public square. But those values and interests are channeled and re-shaped by the process of policy-making itself. Political institutions are not merely ciphers for religious impulses. They provide the rules and context under which religious and secular interests seek policy influence. In order to fully understand this dynamic, we must look to the political institutions that make, implement, and interpret policy. The volume elaborates on this process by highlighting individual institutions with each chapter"--

Il presente contributo nasce dall'esigenza di approfondire il possibile nesso tra la dimensione del "sentire" religioso e quella dell'"agire" lavorativo, nel tentativo di (ri)portare la spiritualità all'interno del dibattito sociologico sul lavoro. Infatti, sebbene nel corso degli ultimi anni la letteratura sociologica ha mostrato come la qualità del lavoro sia un concetto multidimensionale e dinamico, la dimensione religiosa e/o spirituale del lavoratore non ha trovato adeguato spazio nella definizione di qualità del lavoro o negli interventi a suo favore. Attraverso la differenziazione dei concetti quali religiosità, spiritualità e soddisfazione sul lavoro, si giunge alla conclusione che non solo l'inclusione della religione nel posto di lavoro ha delle implicazioni positive sotto il profilo del benessere del lavoratore, ma che il fattore religioso o spirituale incide profondamente sul clima organizzativo nel suo complesso.

In recent years there has been a sharp increase in interest in religiosity and health (especially in the context of the pandemic of the last two years). Accordingly, there has been an increase in studies on the relationship between religiosity and health. However, any knowledgeable researcher finds that the results of studies are often contradictory, if not problematic. Looking for an explanation of the contradictory results obtained by researchers in the field, we found that they are largely due to methodological or perspective deficiencies. As for me, I think a lot of these difficulties come from wrong definitions and concepts. Thus, either religion is confused with spirituality, or the two are considered completely independent realities. The truth is that Religion and spirituality are two different but objective concepts and only their approach is problematic. And to the extent that we clarify this issue, I believe that we will be able to interpret the results of future studies more coherently.

International audience ; Michel Vovelle's analyses of dechristianization in Provence have made it possible to think about the dynamics of the "feminization" of religious practice. Since then, the highlighting of a particularly active role of women in revolutionary religious riots stoked the idea that the Revolution constituted a critical moment, marking the acceleration of the "feminization" of devotion.This conception of a more intense engagement of women to defend the Church, however, is based on documentation and literature shaped by gender representations. Brittany, marked by a lasting religious dynamism and a powerful movement of rejection of the Revolution, is proving to be a rich field of study for examining the religious commitments during the Revolution anew. Brittany's religious conflicts will thus be placed within the wider field of resistance to the revolutionary state and analysed from a gender perspective. Beyond the dominant and stereotypical figure of the "fanatical woman", the challenge is to examine not only the role of women but also that of men in religious resistance and to question the meaning of their commitment. ; Les analyses de Michel Vovelle sur la déchristianisation en Provence ont nourri la réflexion sur la dynamique de « féminisation » de la pratique religieuse. Depuis, la mise en lumière du rôle actif des femmes dans les résistances religieuses de la Révolution a pu alimenter l'idée que la séquence révolutionnaire constitue un moment critique, marquant l'accélération de ce mouvement de féminisation.Cette conception d'un engagement plus intense des femmes pour défendre l'Église repose cependant sur une documentation et une littérature façonnées par des représentations de genre. Nous proposons de les questionner à nouveaux frais à partir d'une enquête de terrain inscrite dans une région, la Bretagne, associant ruralité, vitalité religieuse et refus de la Révolution. Les luttes religieuses bretonnes seront ainsi replacées dans le mouvement plus vaste des résistances à l'État ...

International audience ; Michel Vovelle's analyses of dechristianization in Provence have made it possible to think about the dynamics of the "feminization" of religious practice. Since then, the highlighting of a particularly active role of women in revolutionary religious riots stoked the idea that the Revolution constituted a critical moment, marking the acceleration of the "feminization" of devotion.This conception of a more intense engagement of women to defend the Church, however, is based on documentation and literature shaped by gender representations. Brittany, marked by a lasting religious dynamism and a powerful movement of rejection of the Revolution, is proving to be a rich field of study for examining the religious commitments during the Revolution anew. Brittany's religious conflicts will thus be placed within the wider field of resistance to the revolutionary state and analysed from a gender perspective. Beyond the dominant and stereotypical figure of the "fanatical woman", the challenge is to examine not only the role of women but also that of men in religious resistance and to question the meaning of their commitment. ; Les analyses de Michel Vovelle sur la déchristianisation en Provence ont nourri la réflexion sur la dynamique de « féminisation » de la pratique religieuse. Depuis, la mise en lumière du rôle actif des femmes dans les résistances religieuses de la Révolution a pu alimenter l'idée que la séquence révolutionnaire constitue un moment critique, marquant l'accélération de ce mouvement de féminisation.Cette conception d'un engagement plus intense des femmes pour défendre l'Église repose cependant sur une documentation et une littérature façonnées par des représentations de genre. Nous proposons de les questionner à nouveaux frais à partir d'une enquête de terrain inscrite dans une région, la Bretagne, associant ruralité, vitalité religieuse et refus de la Révolution. Les luttes religieuses bretonnes seront ainsi replacées dans le mouvement plus vaste des résistances à l'État révolutionnaire et analysées par l'angle du genre. Derrière la figure dominante et stéréotypée de « la fanatique », nous rechercherons non seulement le rôle des femmes, mais aussi celui des hommes, pour sonder plus avant les enjeux de leurs engagements.

Die neue Hinwendung zu Religionen ist ein politisch relevantes Phänomen geworden. Eine schillernde Zwischenstellung hat in allen Umbruchzeiten das Phänomen des Messianismus gehalten. Die christlichen Theologien könnten von außen als der Versuch beschrieben werden, einen durch seinen Tod den meisten als falsch erwiesenen Messias zum richtigen Messias umzudeuten. Die rabbinische Bewegung kann demgegenüber in ihrer Weigerung, diese Umdeutung mitzuvollziehen, als die Kraft bezeichnet werden, die einen anderen Begriff vom Messias in Kontradistinktion zum christlichen entwickelte. Wieder eine andere Rolle spielt das Messianische innerhalb der Religionen in den Gegenbewegungen zu den großen religiösen Instituten. Die Autoren der hier gesammelten Beiträge befassen sich in verschiedenen Kontexten mit dem Thema Messianismus im 20. Jahrhundert.

Japan has witnessed the arrival of thousands of immigrants, since the 1990s, from Latin America, especially from Brazil and Peru. Along with immigrants from other parts of the world, they all express the new face of Japan - one of multiculturality and multi-ethnicity. Newcomers are having a strong impact in local faith communities and playing an unexpected role in the development of communities. This book focuses on the role that faith and religious institutions play in the migrants' process of settlement and integration. The authors also focus on the impact of immigrants' religiosity amidst religious groups formerly established in Japan. Religion is an integral aspect of the displacement and settlement process of immigrants in an increasing multi-ethnic, multicultural and pluri-religious contemporary Japan. Religious institutions and their social networks in Japan are becoming the first point of contact among immigrants. This book exposes and explores the often missed connection of the positive role of religion and faith-based communities in facilitating varied integrative ways of belonging for immigrants. The authors highlight the faith experiences of immigrants themselves by bringing their voices through case studies, interviews, and ethnographic research throughout the book to offer an important contribution to the exploration of multiculturalism in Japan. -- Provided by publisher