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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Manuscript Invitation -- Authors' Biographies -- Ordering the Mess: Psychological Type Profiles of Adults in Messy Church Congregations -- The Psychological Temperament of Catholic Priests and Religious Sisters in Italy: An Empirical Enquiry -- The Psychological Type of Individuals Attracted to Celtic Christianity Compared with the Psychological Type of Anglican Congregations -- Lighting Candles and Writing Prayers: Observing Opportunities for Spiritual Practices in Churches in Rural Cornwall -- Investigating the Many Facets of Spirituality that Mediate the Relationship between Exposure to Nature and Psychological Well-Being -- A Nonviolent Identity: A Psychobiographical Study of an Islamic Scholar -- The Pragmatic Believer-Faith Development and Personal Experiences of a 'Higher Power' in Seasoned Members of Narcotics Anonymous -- The Circle of Place Spirituality (CoPS): Towards an Attachment and Exploration Motivational Systems Approach in the Psychology of Religion -- The Place of Place within the Attachment-Religion Framework: A Commentary on the Circle of Place Spirituality -- Special Section 1 The National Church Life Survey in Australia -- Twenty-Five Years of Data on Australian Churches: Strengths and Limitations -- Vitality in Protestant Congregations: A Large Scale Empirical Analysis of Underlying Factors across Four Countries -- Newcomers and Collective Confidence in Protestant Churches: A Longitudinal Study from 2001 to 2011 -- Why Do They Belong? Factors Influencing Sense of Belonging in Australian Catholic Parishes -- Local Churches and Innovativeness: An Empirical Study of 2800 Australian Churches -- Special Section 2 Applications of the Ideological Surround Model

Within the past few years, the English Court of Appeal has ruled in a variety of cases involving disputes about the religious upbringing of children following the separation or divorce of their parents. Many of these cases have not been reported, although the most significant of them,Re R, is well known to family lawyers. In other jurisdictions the European Court of Human Rights inHoffmannand the Supreme Court of Canada inYoungandD.P.v.C.S.have also heard important cases in which a significant factor before the court was the influence of religious beliefs and practices on the children of those who professed them. This article is the result of a study of these and other cases from England, the United States and Canada in order to investigate the reasoning and the trends in judicial decision-making in cases involving children and religion.

The five Central Asian governments tightly control religious freedom and practices. Most mass media remains state-owned or tightly controlled, and journalists exercise self-censorship, with or without official censorship. One result is a dearth of reporting by domestic media about religious freedom issues, which are culturally and politically sensitive for these authoritarian regimes. Western-based Web news sites like those of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (www.iwpr.net), Eurasianet (www.eurasianet.org), and IRIN News (www.irinnews.org) provide alternative venues for independent reporting on news about religion, but access to these sites is difficult or impossible for most people. Central Asian journalists who report for these sites confront challenges and risks.

"The philosopher and ordained rabbi Jacob Taubes (1923-1987) is one of the most important figures on the 20th century German intellectual scene and beyond. As one of the first academic jet-setters, he had been the holder of the founding chair for Jewish Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and was professor at Columbia University. Taubes combined traditional Jewish thinking with contemporary issues in philosophy such as theories of secularization, the relation between politics and religion, and the hermeneutics of time, more specifically messianism, apocalyptic thinking, and gnosticism"--

Hegel's Social Ethics offers a fresh and accessible interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel's most famous book, the Phenomenology of Spirit. Drawing on important recent work on the social dimensions of Hegel's theory of knowledge, Molly Farneth shows how his account of how we know rests on his account of how we ought to live. Farneth argues that Hegel views conflict as an unavoidable part of living together, and that his social ethics involves relationships and social practices that allow people to cope with conflict and sustain hope for reconciliation. Communities create, contest, and transform their norms through these relationships and practices, and Hegel's model for them are often the interactions and rituals of the members of religious communities. The book's close readings reveal the ethical implications of Hegel's discussions of slavery, Greek tragedy, early modern culture wars, and confession and forgiveness. The book also illuminates how contemporary democratic thought and practice can benefit from Hegelian insights. Through its sustained engagement with Hegel's ideas about conflict and reconciliation, Hegel's Social Ethics makes an important contribution to debates about how to live well with religious and ethical disagreement.--

This title offers a systematic account of the law that applies to religious bodies. It sets the modern law in its historical context, and examines the major controversies relating to the legal control of religious practice, including faith schools, faith-based welfare provision, and the human rights law protecting religious freedom