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Securitization of religion, or consideration of religion within the context of the security sector, has returned to the Slovak and Serbian context in connection with the migration crisis. This paper is mostly theoretical, and the question of religious identity is categorized under the sector of societal security. Unlike other conflicts of identity, religion is polarizing, and religious conflicts feature the destruction of cultural heritage and religious monuments. Religious conflicts can be observed among both believers of different religious groups as well as among different denominations of one particular religion. The last section deals with the particular cases of Artsakh and Northern Ireland. In the former conflict, nationalism and overlapping territorial claims play a key role, but the later conflict can be better understood as a hierarchical ethnic conflict.

Vor dem Hintergrund der Auseinandersetzungen mit Kirche und Klerus werden aus der Sicht des BdKJ (Bund der Kommunisten Jugoslawiens) die Tendenzen und Probleme in den Beziehungen zwischen der sozialistischen Gesellschaft und den religiösen Gemeinschaften dargestellt. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Erläuterung der Grundlagen, der Politik und der Maßnahmen des BdKJ gegenüber der Kirche. Die 3 systemapologetischen Aufsätze sind aus Anlaß von Kontroversen zwischen Kirche und BdKJ entstanden. BIOst/Hat

This study examines the relationship between patriarchy and religion and how they impact on women's political participation in Kwara State. The Gender and Development (GAD) approach is employed to examine the impact of social construct on women's political participation. Primary and secondary data were utilized for the study. Primary data was collected through questionnaires distributed to respondents selected from four local governments that makes up Kwara Central Senatorial District. The simple random sampling technique was employed. The study utilized both descriptive and inferential statistical analysis. The study finds that patriarchy permeates religion through the skewed interpretation of religious text (Quran and Hadith) in ways as to advance the entrenchment of male dominance in social life in the study area and by extension Kwara State. The study recommends enlightenment campaign to drive home the value of respect for the equality of women in social relations for inclusive development.

This study examines the relationship between patriarchy and religion and how they impact on women's political participation in Kwara State. The Gender and Development (GAD) approach is employed to examine the impact of social construct on women's political participation. Primary and secondary data were utilized for the study. Primary data was collected through questionnaires distributed to respondents selected from four local governments that makes up Kwara Central Senatorial District. The simple random sampling technique was employed. The study utilized both descriptive and inferential statistical analysis. The study finds that patriarchy permeates religion through the skewed interpretation of religious text (Quran and Hadith) in ways as to advance the entrenchment of male dominance in social life in the study area and by extension Kwara State. The study recommends enlightenment campaign to drive home the value of respect for the equality of women in social relations for inclusive development.

A review essay on books by (1) L. Carl Brown, Religion and State: The Muslim Approach to Politics (New York: Columbia U Press, 2000); (2) Anthony Shadid, Legacy of the Prophet: Despots, Democrats, and the New Politics of Islam (Boulder, CO: Westview, 2002); (3) John L. Esposito & Assam Tamimi (Eds), Islam and Secularism in the Middle East (New York: New York U Press, 2000); (4) Abdulaziz Sachedina, The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism (New York: Oxford U Press, 2001); & (5) Robert W. Hefner, Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia (Princeton, NJ: Princeton U Press, 2000).

Introduction: contextualizing race, gender, and religion in the new world / Nora E. Jaffary -- Frontiers -- Women as go-betweens? Patterns in sixteenth-century Brazil / Alida C. Metcalf -- Gender and violence: conquest, conversion, and culture on New Spain's imperial frontier / Bruce A. Erickson -- The very sinews of a new colony: demographic determinism and the history of early Georgia women / Ben Marsh -- Female religious -- The convent as missionary in seventeenth-century France / Susan Broomhall -- "Although I am black, I am beautiful": Juana Esperanza de San Alberto, Black Carmelite of Puebla / Joan C. Bristol -- Andean women in religion: beatas, "deceny", and the defense of honor in colonial Cuzco / Kathryn Burns -- Race mixing -- Incest, sexual virtue, and social mobility in late colonial Mexico, / Nora E. Jaffary -- "An empire founded on libertinage": the mulatresse and colonial anxiety in Saint Domingue / Yvonne Fabella -- Mediating Mackinac: métis women's cultural persistence in the upper Great Lakes / Bethany Fleming -- Networks -- Circuits of knowledge among women in early-seventeenth-century Lima / Nancy E. van Deusen -- Waters of faith, currents of freedom: gender, religion, and ethnicity in inter-imperial trade between Curaçao and Tierra Firme / Linda M. Rupert -- Afterword: women in the Atlantic world / Patricia Seed

This article explains the variation of embryo research laws in the Western world. A quantitative analysis shows that theories of partisan influence, institutions, and economic interests are ill suited to explain this variation. Only when cultural factors are considered can the variation be explained. Catholic societies legislate more strictly, and the Catholic Church is an influential actor. This is surprising, as economic interests are very important in the field. But even in a field where the economic stakes are high, the Catholic Church can be successful. The lessons are twofold. First, the discussion about the determinants of embryo research policies is enriched, as the article shows that despite particular discourses, religion is still a major factor and that the field can be fruitfully analyzed using a quantitative approach. Second, the article claims that theories of comparative public policy can benefit from the inclusion of cultural factors.

The paper is devoted to the interaction between science and religion in the theory of famous british philosopher of science Michael Polanyi. There is an analysis of relations between scientific and religious beliefs. According to Polanyi the religious cult provides a man with euristic vision of reality. Polanyi had a great impact into "untraditional" conception of truth.

Reflections on migration and religion at a time when migration remains a controversial political issue, whether it concerns disagreements in the US senate over financing President Trump's proposed wall at the US-Mexico border, the continuing influx of refugees from Africa and the Middle East into Europe, or xenophobia towards African migrants in South Africa and the Royinga in Myanmar. Consequently, continously changing trajectories, net-works and caravans of migration are produced, as a result of peoples differing needs and desires for movement and settlement.Those who have worked in the field of migration know that the migration of people has been a sustained phenomenon that has shaped the ma-king of societies, it has fractured hegemonies and ultimately produced diverse diasporas. This was evident in the works Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy and Jamaica Kincaid as they have reflected on the fortunes and hardships of the windrush generation in the United Kingdom. Similarly, their predecessors Frantz Fanon, James Baldwin, Aime Cesaire, and Sol Plaatjie wrote widely about the social condition of being black in the world through narratives of migration, where they variously came to confront themselves of the objects of terror, curiosity and the exotic – all tropes that operate to deny black subjectivity. Thus we take as a starting point that transnational migration has significantly shaped the political and intellectual labour has of people of colour.

The paper analyzes the religiosity in Croatia from the point of significant differences among its regions demonstrating an array of theoretical and methodological difficulties in interpreting religious changes in post-communism, particularly the revitalization of religion in some countries and contradict social role of religion in most countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Differences in religiosity of Croatian regions are connected to borders with countries of different religions, nations and/or languages and with the historical as well as recent social processes. Apart from the dominant paradigms of explanation (differences in historical processes and the trend of politicization of religion and " religization" of politics in the transitional period) the paper suggests that the possible influence of politicization must be regarded in much longer historical period, that different patterns of socio-religious development have long-lasting consequences and that the role of religion as cultural resource for individuals and social groups must not be neglected.

Der vorliegende Artikel untersucht, inwiefern das in anderen westlichen Ländern nachgewiesene Phänomen der Kohorten-Säkularisierung auch für die Schweiz gilt. Nach dieser Theorie kommt die Säkularisierung zustande, weil religiösere durch weniger religiöse Kohorten ersetzt werden - und nicht weil die Religiosität von Individuen im Lebensverlauf abnimmt. Der Artikel untersucht die Entwicklung der christlichen Religiosität und holistischer (ganzheitlicher) Spiritualität auf der Basis mehrerer großer Sozialumfragen. Die These der Kohorten-Säkularisierung kann für christliche Religiosität bestätigt werden: Die Säkularisierung entsteht zu einem wichtigen Teil, weil jede neue Generation etwas weniger religiös ist. Es handelt sich um "Generationen abnehmenden Glaubens". Hingegen finden wir keine Hinweise darauf, dass viele Personen ihren Glauben behalten und nur die Kirchenmitgliedschaft ablegen ("believing without belonging"). Auch eine holistisch-spirituelle Revolution hat nicht stattgefunden.