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"This international volume provides a comprehensive account of contemporary research, new perspectives and cutting-edge issues surrounding religion and spirituality in social work. The introduction introduces key themes and conceptual issues such as understandings of religion and spirituality as well as definitions of social work, which can vary between countries. The main body of the book is divided up into sections on regional perspectives; religious and spiritual traditions; faith-based service provision; religion and spirituality across the lifespan; and social work practice. The final chapter identifies key challenges and opportunities for developing both social work scholarship and practice in this area.Including a wide range of international perspectives from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Malta, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden, the UK and the USA, this Handbook succeeds in extending the dominant paradigms and comprises a mix of authors including major names, significant contributors and emerging scholars in the field, as well as leading contributors in other fields of social work who have an interest in religion and spirituality. The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Spirituality and Social Work is an authoritative and comprehensive reference for academics and researchers as well as for organisations and practitioners committed to exploring why, and how, religion and spirituality should be integral to social work practice."--Provided by publisher

1. Introduction -- 2. The theoretical debate on size and democracy : from Plato to the present -- 3. Theoretical model and research design : concepts, cases, and methods -- 4. The Republic of San Marino : Antica Terra della Liberta -- 5. The Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis : politics or politricks? -- 6. The Republic of Seychelles : En Nouvo Sesel? -- 7. The Republic of Palau : Ngelekel Belau -- 8. Conclusion : the political effects of smallness.

The paper explores the history of relations between Christianity and the state in China, the current policy of religious toleration in the PRC, the role of Christianity in Deng Xiaoping's current modernisation progamme and Christianity's future prospects in the PRC. Introduction of Roman Catholicism in China by the Jesuits. (DÜI-Sen)

Der Beitrag betrachtet Religion und europäische Integration aus der Sicht der amerikanischen Gesellschaft. Der Blick aus der amerikanischen Perspektive kann weiterhelfen, weil der Vergleich zwischen Europa und den Vereinigten Staaten im theoretischen Denken der Religionssoziologie einen strategischen Platz einnimmt. Säkularität galt bisher allgemein als unerbittliche Konsequenz der Modernisierung. Dennoch sind die Vereinigten Staaten verglichen mit Europa von unverwüstlicher Religiosität. Der Autor geht auf Unterschiede und Ähnlichkeiten bei der Stellung der Religion ein (Religiosität, Individualisierung) und verweist darauf, dass stärker noch als die Säkularisierung die Individualisierung Kennzeichen der Moderne ist. Anschließend geht der Autor den Fragen nach, worin die integrative Kraft Europas besteht und was Religion zur europäischen Integration beitragen kann. (ICB2)

Nationalism presents a multitude of ways to talk about characteristics of its mem-bers and to view how these characteristics are formed in a timeless past. Popula-tions identified as nations imagine themselves as sharing a collective identity and social solidarity. They form discourses offering ways of stipulating what defines nations in terms of collective characteristics, such as race, ethnicity, and religion. In many cases, these outright exclusive characteristics are subterranean, appearing in implicit forms and frequently combining with official claims regarding the civic and constitutional criteria for national membership. Turkish nationalism is no ex-ception. While historical and contemporary examples of exclusion abound in Tur-key's political history, they are countered with official claims of equal and open membership. Often, these exclusions appear to be based on religion, as rules of in-clusion present a preference for Muslims from Sunni backgrounds. Based on two case studies, this article argues that the relationship between nation and religion is mediated through the racial exception. When racial otherness is present, the over-laps between nation and religion may be negotiated, reinterpreted, or disregarded.

This article examines the academic and intellectual career of Kang Xiaoguang, a prominent advocate of Confucianism and of the establishment of Confucianism as China's state religion. It argues that Kang's advocacy is rooted in a utilitarian vision of religion, and a pragmatic desire to encourage the development of healthy state-society relations in twenty-first century China. (China Perspectives/GIGA)

"In diesem Beitrag möchte ich zunächst kurz die Geschichte sowie die Entwicklung der Dao-Religion in China darstellen. Anschließend werde ich ein wichtiges daoistisches Werk, das Taiping Jingl (Die Friedensschrift), vorstellen und dabei das sozio-politische Programm, das darin vorgeschlagen wird - besonders im Hinblick auf das Prinzip der Harmonie - darlegen. Danach werde ich auf die Rolle der Dao-Religion im heutigen China eingehen, und zwar seit der Gründung der VR China im Jahr 1949. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei aus verständlichen Gründen mehr auf der Zeit nach 1978. Um ein möglichst umfassendes Bild zu vermitteln, werde ich in diesem Teil kurz die Organisation, die Bildung und die Rolle der Dao-Religion in der Gesellschaft erläutern und darüber hinaus auch auf die Dao-Religion als Forschungsgegenstand in der chinesischen Wissenschaftswelt eingehen." (Autorenreferat)