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Religion sometimes appears to motivate objections to science and technology. But how and when does religion matter? The author examines this question from a novel perspective. Given the opportunity to limit scientific research, and having good reasons to do so, are religious persons likely to support such limits? Through individual interviews with 62 respondents, he finds that the answer is generally "no." Religious and nonreligious respondents alike deploy multiple reinforcing arguments for supporting science in order to resist any proposed limits. With rare exceptions, religious and nonreligious persons concur in their unwavering support for ongoing scientific research.

Die ideologische Orientierung des 1981 in den USA gegründeten IRD zielt auf eine Bewältigung der Probleme der "Demokratisierung" im Interesse des transnationalen Monopolkapitals. Damit werden Projekte thematisiert, die besonders in den Ländern Lateinmamerikas aufgrund des Niedergangs der reaktionären Militärdiktaturen im Zentrum der theoretischen Diskussion und des ideologischen Klassenkampfes stehen

Drawing on the work of McAdam, Tarrow, & Tilly, Lefebvre, & others, we argue that analysis of political contention dynamics can benefit from attention to the spatial constitution & context of social, political, & economic processes, & the ways in which these processes are spatially experienced & contested. We contend that spatial processes are inseparable from, & constitutive of, social processes. Starting from the central geographic concepts of space, place, & scale, we discuss how a spatial perspective can produce more illuminating understandings of how people perceive, shape, & act upon grievances & opportunities. We demonstrate the utility of a spatial perspective through an examination of ways in which space is implicated in the operation of several mechanisms identified by McAdam, Tarrow, & Tilly. Finally, we introduce the papers included in this special issue on space & contentious politics, discussing the ways in which each author finds place, space, & scale to be bound up in the dynamics of political contention. 51 References. Adapted from the source document.

As the U.S. occupation of Iraq dragged on, George W. Bush declared in April 2004 that the United States is "the greatest power on the face of the earth," and that "we have an obligation to help the spread of freedom. . . . That is what we have been called to do, as far as I'm concerned." In his inaugural address in January this year, Bush declared that the United States had been given a "mission" by the "Maker of Heaven" and "Author of Liberty" to spread freedom and democracy. And in May, Bush again asserted that encouraging "freedom's advance" is the "calling of our time. And America will do its duty."

Explores how consumers form complex relationships with media texts and characters, and how these readings exist in the nexus between real and fictional worlds. This collection of empirical studies uses various methodologies, including surveys, experiments, focus groups, and mixed methods, to analyze how actual consumers interpret the texts and the overt and covert political messages encoded in popular culture.--Provided by publisher

One of the great intellectual battles of modern times is between evolution and religion. Until now, they have been considered completely irreconcilable theories of origin and existence. David Sloan Wilson's Darwin's Cathedral takes the radical step of joining the two, in the process proposing an evolutionary theory of religion that shakes both evolutionary biology and social theory at their foundations.The key, argues Wilson, is to think of society as an organism, an old idea that has received new life based on recent developments in evolutionary biology. If society is an o

Säkularisation bezeichnet einen Vorgang, der sich in allen Gesellschaften, in denen eine enge Verbindung von Religion und Politik besteht, dauernd vollzieht: Sie ist der historische Prozess der Emanzipation beider Komponenten, im christlich abendländischen Europa die Trennung von Staat und Kirche, vorbereitet im Mittelalter, vollzogen erstmals im Frankreich der Großen Revolution, aber bis heute nicht in allen Teile Europas in letzter Konsequenz. Der emeritierte französische Historiker (Paris-Nanterre, Mitglied der Académie) beschreibt in einem brillant geschriebenen, von J. Grube vorzüglich übersetzten Essay die unterschiedlichen Phasen dieses gesamteuropäischen Prozesses aus der Perspektive der longue durée und lehrt uns, dass Religion nicht zum Randphänomen wurde, sondern in den politisch-ideologischen Kontroversen der letzten 200 Jahre eine zentrale Rolle spielte. Beachtenswertes, nur Allgemeinkenntnisse voraussetzendes Buch. (2) (Friedrich Andrae)

Abstract.  Scholars have long explored the role that reputation plays in the facilitation of exchange. Some attention has also been paid to the way in which religions serve as a proxy for reputation or as a mechanism for enforcement of exchange agreements. These reputation and enforcement mechanisms enhance the ability of the members of certain religious groups to perform economic roles where such secular‐based mechanisms fail or are absent. In this article, I explore the ways in which hostility toward members of high‐tension religions makes them uniquely well suited to the economic role of middlemen. As illustration, I explore the particular case of the 19th‐century German Jewish peddler in the young United States.

Identifying the "religion–ethnicity–well-being" nexus as an understudied topic in marketing and consumer behavior research, we propose three main trajectories for future research: Firstly, given the politics of religions, there is a need for studying societies that suffer from and are affected by religioethnic tensions and also different types of risks that threaten people's well-being in such contexts. Secondly, future research should investigate how and why markets may generate and mediate religioethnic prejudices and antagonism that put society's well-being at risk. Thirdly, with the upsurge of transcultural alternative religiosities/spiritualities, researchers should examine how through the processes of religious hybridization and hybrid consumption people change their existing consumption patterns and how alternative religiosities/spiritualities influence their sense of well-being, particularly in contexts where religious shifts are contested.

Ghanem reviews 'Religion in the News: Faith and Journalism in American Public Discourse' by Stewart M. Hoover.

The complex interconnections between religious beliefs and fashion in clothing have been increasingly recognised by researchers, already since the &lsquo ; new veiling&rsquo ; phenomenon spread across the Muslim world in the 1970s (El-Guindi 1981, 1999 ; MacLeod 1987, 1992), and especially since the extreme politicisation of the Muslim veil in the 2000s and 2010s (Haddad 2007) [.]

Volume One of Three Revolutions presents the overall research and discussions on topics related to the revolutionary events that have unfolded in Ukraine since 1990. The three revolutions referred to in this project include: the Revolution on Granite (1990); the Orange Revolution (2004-2005); and the Euromaidan Revolution (2013-2014). The project's overall goal was to determine the extent to which we have the right to use the term "revolution" in relation to these events. Moreover, the research also uncovered the methodological problems associated with this task. Lastly, the project investigated to what extent the three revolutions are connected to each other and to what extent they are detached. Hence, the research in this volume not only discusses the theoretical aspects but also provides new analyses on such issues as religion, memory, and identity in Ukraine.