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This unique encyclopedia explores the historical and contemporary controversies between science and religion. It is designed to offer multicultural and multi-religious views, and provide wide-ranging perspectives. ""Science, Religion, and Society"" covers all aspects of the religion and science dichotomy, from humanities to social sciences to natural sciences, and includes articles by theologians, religion scholars, physicians, scientists, historians, and psychologists, among others. The first section, General Overviews, contains essays that provide a road map for exploring the major challenge

"Der Artikel geht der Frage nach, wie Geschlecht und Religion/ Säkularität im Diskurs um den EU-Beitritt der Türkei in französischen und österreichischen Printmedien verknüpft sind und fokussiert auf die Ergebnisse einer vergleichenden empirischen Untersuchung des Mediendiskurses in Österreich und Frankreich. In den Blick genommen werden spezifische Darstellungen des Anderen und des Eigenen, die geschlechtsspezifisch und religiös konnotiert sind. Dabei zeichnen sich sowohl kontrastierende nationale Narrative als auch länderübergreifende Topoi ab: In Frankreich sind die untersuchten Darstellungsweisen der Türkei und die Beitrittsdebatten etwa an universalistische Vorstellungen einer mission civilisatrice gekoppelt, in Österreich hingegen kommen diverse Bedrohungsszenarien zum Tragen, in denen historische Konfliktlinien reaktiviert werden. Als länderübergreifende Strategien der Alteritätskonstruktion kristallisieren sich orientalistische Momente heraus, als deren Aufhänger etwa der Topos von Sein und Schein und der Topos der Öffnung der Türkei dienen." (Autorenreferat)

When writing about politically and culturally sensitive topics, term use is of great relevance. Sá ; mi religion is a case in point. Words organise and create the world around us, and labels have direct consequences on how religious phenomena are perceived. Even labelling a phenomenon or an action &ldquo ; religious&rdquo ; carries certain baggage. Term use is, of course, easier when writing about historical materials and describing rituals whose practitioners have been dead for centuries. Nonetheless, contemporary practitioners of age-old rituals or people who use ancient symbols in their everyday lives often see themselves as carriers of old tradition and wish to identify with previous generations regardless of opinions that might deem their actions as &ldquo ; re-enacting&rdquo ; &ldquo ; neoshamanism&rdquo ; or &ldquo ; neopaganism&rdquo ; . If, for example, outsider academics wish to deem modern-day Indigenous persons as &ldquo ; neo&rdquo ; -something, issues of power and essentialism blend in with the discourse. This paper critically explores terms used around the Sá ; mi religion in different time periods and attempts to come to suggestions that could solve some of the terminological problems a student of modern practitioners of indigenous religions inevitably faces.

Struggles for global justice are being fought by civil society groups across the globe, addressing global inequalities, challenging neoliberal market driven globalization and demanding to remedy its negative implications. This book examines the roles religious communities and organizations in particular play in the struggles for global justice, roles too often ignored by scholars of the Global Justice Movement (GJM). It has two central themes: - the role religion and religious actors play in global justice struggles, and - the idea that justice is a contested concept among both religious and secular actors which requires some sort of faith' from its proponents. These chapters transcend simplistic either/or binaries highlighting the difficulties of clearly distinguishing between religious and secular, progressive and conservative, or rational and irrational motives and norms in struggles for justice. Challenging the secularization paradigm that marginalizes the role religious actors play in public life these chapters show how these actors engage with a broad range of justice issues, how deeply contested justice is, and how its meaning may vary and change among religious actors as a result of the social or political context within which an injustice is encountered. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Globalizations.