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Valuing Lives, Healing Earth: Religion, Gender, and Life on Earth' analyzes and amplifies advocacy for gender and ecological justice in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, focusing on women who embody commitments to healing the earth and valuing lives rendered vulnerable by problematic social systems. The volume features essays from leading scholars Ivone Gebara (Brazil), Aruna Gnanadason (India), Rosemary Radford Ruether (U.S.), and Sylvia Marcos (Mexico) among renowned, established, and emerging scholars concerned with religion, environment, gender, and the many intersections between them in real life. The volume highlights scholarship on practical work by women globally, who labor toward greater justice for a diverse humanity and biodiverse nature, exerting collaborative solidarity, grounded love, and realistic hope for the future

Preliminary Material -- The Revised Faith Development Scale: An Option for a More Reliable Self-Report Measurement of Postconventional Religious Reasoning /J. Irene Harris and Gary K. Leak -- Spirituality's Unique Role in Positive Affect, Satisfaction with Life, and Forgiveness over and above Personality and Individualism-Collectivism /Inna Reddy Edara -- Restoring the Temple: Religiousness, Spirituality, and Health /Gina Magyar-Russell -- Forgiveness, Religiousness, Spirituality, and Health in People with Physical Challenges: A Review and a Model /Caroline R. Lavelock , Brandon J. Griffin and Everett L. Worthington -- Religious and Spiritual Appraisals and Coping Strategies among Patients in Medical Rehabilitation /Gina Magyar-Russell , Kenneth I. Pargament , Kelly M. Trevino and Jack E. Sherman -- The Relationship of Spirituality, Benefit Finding, and Other Psychosocial Variables to the Hormone Oxytocin in HIV/AIDS /Courtney B. Kelsch , Gail Ironson , Angela Szeto , Heidemarie Kremer , Neil Schneiderman and Armando J. Mendez -- Coping Without Religion? Religious Coping, Quality of Life, and Existential Well-Being among Lung Disease Patients and Matched Controls in a Secular Society /Heidi Frølund Pedersen , Christina G. Pedersen , Kenneth I. Pargament and Robert Zachariae -- Magic and Jinn among Bangladeshis in the United Kingdom Suffering from Physical and Mental Health Problems: Controlling the Uncontrollable /Simon Dein -- Spirituality, Faith, and Mild Alzheimer's Disease /Jocelyn Shealy McGee , Dennis R. Myers , Holly Carlson , Angela Pool Funai and Paul A. Barclay -- Spiritual Struggles, Health-Related Quality of Life, and Mental Health Outcomes in Urban Adolescents with Asthma /Sian Cotton , Kenneth I. Pargament , Jerren C. Weekes , Meghan E. McGrady , Daniel Grossoehme , Christina M. Luberto , Anthony C. Leonard and George Fitchett -- Testing the Validity of a Protocol to Screen for Spiritual Struggle among Parents of Children with Cystic Fibrosis /Daniel H. Grossoehme and George Fitchett -- Winding Road: Preliminary Support for a Spiritually Integrated Intervention Addressing College Students' Spiritual Struggles /Carmen K. Oemig Dworsky , Kenneth I. Pargament , Meryl Reist Gibbel , Krumrei Elizabeth J. , Carol Ann Faigin , Maria R. Gear Haugen , Kavita M. Desai , Shauna K. Lauricella , Quinten Lynn and Heidi L. Warner -- Authors' Biographies -- Manuscript Reviewers -- Subject Index -- Author Index.

In the past decades, we have witnessed the global re-emergence of the political meaning of both nationalism and religion. This paper explores contemporary fragments of this trend across three European countries: Britain, France and Poland. The discursive occurrences brought into the analysis are taken from the state-centred political arenas as well as more diffused or marginal sociological elements. While the approach is primarily set in the perspective of nationalism studies, the final aim of the paper is to nourish the reflection on the negotiations of political and social significations which transpire through the occurrences presented in the analysis. To what extent are religious discourses inherent to the resurgence of nationalist discourses and social practices? Reversely, are nationalistic phenomena inherently religious in nature, hence favourable to combinations between religious and nationalist discursive elements? Are the contemporary forms presented in this paper, tokens of a new (or renewed) syncretism of a would-be dominant reactionary grid of social significations?

In the past decades, we have witnessed the global re-emergence of the political meaning of both nationalism and religion. This paper explores contemporary fragments of this trend across three European countries: Britain, France and Poland. The discursive occurrences brought into the analysis are taken from the state-centred political arenas as well as more diffused or marginal sociological elements. While the approach is primarily set in the perspective of nationalism studies, the final aim of the paper is to nourish the reflection on the negotiations of political and social significations which transpire through the occurrences presented in the analysis. To what extent are religious discourses inherent to the resurgence of nationalist discourses and social practices? Reversely, are nationalistic phenomena inherently religious in nature, hence favourable to combinations between religious and nationalist discursive elements? Are the contemporary forms presented in this paper, tokens of a new (or renewed) syncretism of a would-be dominant reactionary grid of social significations?

In the past decades, we have witnessed the global re-emergence of the political meaning of both nationalism and religion. This paper explores contemporary fragments of this trend across three European countries: Britain, France and Poland. The discursive occurrences brought into the analysis are taken from the state-centred political arenas as well as more diffused or marginal sociological elements. While the approach is primarily set in the perspective of nationalism studies, the final aim of the paper is to nourish the reflection on the negotiations of political and social significations which transpire through the occurrences presented in the analysis. To what extent are religious discourses inherent to the resurgence of nationalist discourses and social practices? Reversely, are nationalistic phenomena inherently religious in nature, hence favourable to combinations between religious and nationalist discursive elements? Are the contemporary forms presented in this paper, tokens of a new (or renewed) syncretism of a would-be dominant reactionary grid of social significations?

This book focuses on the ethnographic study of Catholicism and media. Chapters demonstrate how people engage with the Catholic media-scape, and analyse the social, cultural, and political processes that underlie Catholic media and mediatization. Case studies examine Catholic practices in North America, Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, South-East Asia, and Africa, providing a truly comparative, de-centred representation of global Catholicism. Illustrating the vibrancy and heterogeneity of Catholicism world-wide, the book also examines how media work to sustain larger global Catholic imaginaries

This article aims to provide a conceptual framework forexploring the relations between liberal nationalism and reli-gion. Combining multidimensional analyses of autonomy aswell as religion, the article aims to provide a framework forconsidering, with greater precision, different potential ver-sions of liberal nationalism, and which kinds of pri-oritisations and trade-offs they would involve. Religion isapproached in terms of Wittgensteinian family resem-blances, referring to a host of overlapping narratives, norms,objects and practices. Autonomy is analysed in terms of col-lective and individual autonomy, and the latter is dividedinto four major dimensions: liberty (freedom from coercion)opportunity (available options) capacity (for making choices)and authenticity (the degree to which choices are genuine).These, furthermore, may be distributed differently acrossspace and time: for example, liberty may be restricted in thepresent to preserve it over time. Liberal nationalism ulti-mately has to balance intrinsic and instrumental arguments,while respecting human rights.

In this article, I report on results of a Matched Guise Tests (MGT) study investigating attitudes towards Bohtan (BHKr) and Maraş Kurmanji (MRKr) spoken among the UK diaspora. I focus on BHKr, which I use to refer to the Kurmanji that is identified as "good Kurmanji", also referred to as "academic"/ "proper", and MRKr to refer to the Kurmanji that is referred to as "bad Kurmanji" by Kurmanji speakers in the UK. The MGT, and questions pertaining to perceptual dialectology such as respondents' perceptions of region, religion, gender and class in this study, show that attitudes towards what is perceived as BHKr and MRKr differ significantly. By concentrating on language attitudes towards Kurmanji which have never been studied in the UK context before, this paper investigates negative and positive evaluations of both BHKr and MRKr in relation to religious affiliation.
Abstract In Kurmanji
Helwêstên zimanî û dîn: Kurdên elewî li Ingiltereyê
Di vê gotarê de encamên taqîkirineke bi rêya testa "matched guise" li ser helwêstên beramber kurmanciya Botan û ya Mereşê li nav endamên diasporaya Ingiltereyê hatine pêşkêşkirin. Her du devokên kurmanciyê yên Botan û Mereşê hatine nirxandin, ku li nav axêverên kurmanciyê li Ilgiltereyê (Yilmaz, 2018) devoka Botan li beramber "kurmanciya baş" an jî "akademîk" tê danîn û kurmanciya Mereşê jî wek "kurmanciya xerab" tê danîn. Testê û pirsyarên li ser devoknasiya sehkî (perceptual dialectology), wek seh û nezera beşdaran li ser dever, dîn, cinsiyet û çînê di vê xebatê de nîşan didin ku sehên axêveran derheq kurmanciya Botan û Mereşê bi rengekî girîng ji hev cuda ne. Bi rêya hûrbûna li ser helwêstên zimanî beramber kurmanciyê, ku heta niha qet nehatiye vekolîn li Ilgiltereyê, ev gotar berê xwe dide tehlîla nirxandinên erênî û nerênî yên li ser devokên Botan û Mereşê di warê aîdiyeta dînî de.
Abstract in Sorani
Hellwêstî zmanî û ayîn: 'Elewîye Kurdekan le Şanşîne Yekgirtuwekan
Lem wtareda ew twêjîneweye radegeyenim ke ‏Matched Guise Testis ‎‏ ‏‎(MiGT) ‎î bo lêkollînewe le ‏hellwêstî Kurmancî ‏axêwerekanî Bohtan ‏‎(BiHKir)‎‏ we Maraş ‏‎(MiRKir) ‎‏ le naw dayesporay ‏şanşîne yekgirtuwekanda. ‏Min terkîzm xistote ser (‏‎(BiHKir‎, bo amaje dan bew kirmancaney ‏bekardênim ke be "kurmancî ‏baş" nasrawn, herweha wek "ekadîmî"/"lebar" amajeyan ‏pêdrawe, we ‏‎(MiRKir)‎‏ bo ew kurmancaney ke be ‏‏"kurmancî xrap" lelayen kurmancye ‏axêwerekanî şanşînî berîtana amajeyan pê dedrêt (‏‎(Yilmaz, 2018‎‏.)‏‎ (MIGT)‎‏ legell ‏pirsyarekanî peywest be pey birdin be zansitî zarawekan, bo nmûne sernicî ‏wellamgokanî naw ‏em twêjîneweye bo nawçe, ayîn, regez û çîn, ewe pîşandeden ke hewlliwêstekan ‏derbarey ‏ewaney ke be ‏‎(BiHKir)‎‏ û be ‏‎(MiRKir)‎‏ debînrên zor cyawazn. Be terkîz kirdne ser ‏hellwêste zmanîyekan ‏derbarey kurmancî ke hergîz pêştir le şanşîne yekgirtuwekan dîrase ‏nekrawe , em babete ‏lêkollînewe le hellsengandne erênî û nerênîyekanî heryek le ‏‎(BiHKir)‎‏ û ‏‎(MiRKir)‎‏ le peywend be ‏întîmay dînî dekat.
Abstract in Zazaki
Tewrê ziwanî û dîn: kurdê elewî yê Qiralîya Yewbîyayîye
Ez na meqale de netîceyanê cigêrayîşê Testanê Seypêkerdeyan ê Guiseyî (MGT) ke derheqê tewranê ziwanî yê kurmancîya Botanî (BHKr) û Mereşî (MRKr) yê ke dîyasporaya Qiralîya Yewbîyayîye de qesey benê, înan analîz kena. Ez giranî dana BHKr ser ke hetê qiseykerdoxanê kurmancî yê Qiralîya Yewbîyaye sey "kurmancîya rinde" yan zî "kurmancîya akademîke/raşte" hesibnîyena, û MRK ser ke sey "kurmancîya xirabine" hesibnîyena (Yilmaz, 2018). MGT û persê ke derheqê dîyalektolojîya îdrakîye de yê, sey dîyayîşê îdrakkerdoxan yê herêm, dîn, cinsîyet û sinife ke na meqale de ca girewto, ê musnenê ke tewrê înan ê hemverê BHKr û MRK yewbînan ra zaf cîya yê. Pê giranîdayîşê tewranê zimanî yê hemverê kurmancî ser, ke heta nika ê tewran ser o Qiralîya Yewbîyayîye de qet cigêrayîş nêameyo kerdene, na xebate erjnayîşanê BHRr û MRKr yê pozîtîf û negatîfan goreyê têkilîya xo ya dînî analîz kena.

The objectives of this study are to investigate the traits that clients find important in professional social service providers, comparing confidence in client management skills (friendliness, experience, and knowledge) to desire for demographic characteristics (being of the same race and religion). To accomplish this task, we use multiple regression to analyze results of the Lehigh Valley Trust Survey of low-income recipients of social services. While most respondents find the professional traits important, there is significant variation in whether respondents consider demographic characteristics to be important. We find that having a provider of the same race is very important for African Americans and Hispanics, while having a provider with similar religious beliefs is extremely important for evangelical Protestants. Other predictive variables for homophilous preferences in race and religion are age, mobility, and education. Professional skills corresponding to organizational position are important to most people, but specific demographic groups prioritize racial, ethnic, and religious homophily. While we suggest some possible explanations (perceived or actual discrimination and cultural concordance), further research is needed to determine the causes. Adapted from the source document.

AbstractThe existing studies on the determinants of the regulation of religion are based on the theories of modernization, clash of civilizations, and economics of religion, which do not properly take into account the potential impact of the political environment. The current study aims to address this gap in the research. It discusses some of the ways in which the differences in the political environment in autocratic and democratic countries might influence the regulation of religion. The results of the descriptive analysis for ca. 150 countries show that there is more variation in regulation of religion among the autocratic countries than among the democratic ones, and that in the autocratic countries there is a clear association between patterns of legitimation and regulation. The results on the association between the constitutional structure of the democratic countries and regulation of religion are ambiguous.