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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Beyond Playing God: Critical Religious GenEthics for Pluralistic Societies -- Playing God? -- Foundations: Hermeneutic and Conceptional Reflections -- The Function of Religion in GenEthical Debates: Critical Analyses -- Examining Constructive Efforts of Religious Genethics -- Beyond Playing God -- Context, Acknowledgments, and Dedication -- Foundations: Hermeneutic and Conceptional Reflections -- Genes - Cells - Interpretations -- Prologue -- Hermeneutics -- Political Texts -- Metaphysical Texts -- Who Is the Author of the Genetic Text? -- We Do Our Genes -- References -- Controversies about Human Dignity: Implications for Biotechnology -- Introduction -- Conception I: HD as a Standard of Duties or Rights -- Conception II: HD as a Standard of Virtue -- Conflicting Appeals to HD in Public Bioethics: The Example of Human Genetic Enhancement -- A Public Precautionary Process -- References -- The Function of Religion in GenEthical Debates: Critical Analyses -- Global Bioethics, Theology, and Human Genetic Engineering: The Challenge of Refashioning Human Nature in the Face of Moral and Religious Pluralism -- There Is No Substantive Secular Global Bioethics to Guide Human Genetic Engineering -- The Plurality of Moralities -- The Illusion of Consensus -- Separated by Heresy and Disbelief -- Always a View from Somewhere -- References -- Eschewing Images of Man: Against Anthropological Reductionism in Bioethics -- Religious Language: Radical Openness to Interpretation -- The Dignity of God Seems Not to Be Inviolable: The Abuse of Religious Language in Ethics -- Eschewing Images of Man: Against Anthropological Reductionism in Bioethics -- References -- Children, Bodies, Life: Ethics as the Churches' Biopolitics -- Power of the Churches -- Human Life as a Biological Entity -- Bioethicization of the Churches' Positions.

Introduction, Michael Stausberg (University of Bergen, Norway) -- 1. Religious Demise: Definitional Issues and Conceptual Considerations, Stuart A. Wright (Lamar University, USA), Michael Stausberg (University of Bergen, Norway) and Carol M. Cusack (University of Sydney, Australia) -- 2. How Religions End: A Case Study of the Urapmin of Papua New Guinea, Joel Robbins (University of Cambridge, UK) -- 3. The Ends and Endings of Aum Shinrikyo, Erica Baffelli (University of Manchester, UK) -- 4. The Demise of Religion: The Case of Knutby Filadelfia in Sweden, Lisolette Frisk (Dalarna University, Sweden) -- 5. Religious Failure Deferred: The Panacea Society, Alistair Lockhart (Cambridge University, UK) -- 6. Denominationalization or Death? Comparing Processes of Change within the Jesus Fellowship Church and the Children of God aka The Family International, Eileen Barker (London School of Economics, University of London, UK) -- 7. How Online Counter-Narratives Catalyze Change: The Fall of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Jessica Johnson (College of William and Mary, USA) -- 8. The Creation and End of an Anti-Religious Religion, Michael Stausberg (University of Bergen, Norway) -- 9. State Actions Leading to Religious Demise, Stuart A. Wright (Lamar University, USA) -- 10. Collective Violence as Religious Demise, James Lewis (Wuhan University, China) and Carole M. Cusack (University of Sydney, Australia) -- Bibliography -- Index

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"Den usynlige religionen" er Luckmanns analyse av fagarbeidet i religionssosiologi og hva det var i stand til å si og ikke om den aktuelle samfunnsvirkeligheten. Boken startet en diskusjon, som fortsatt pågår, om fundamentene i forståelsen av religion når boken først kom ut i 1963. Han tar for seg og stiller spørsmål om blant annet privatreligiøsitet, nyreligiøsitet, hvorvidt mennesket er religiøst, og sekularisering. Den tyske utgaven fra 1991 hadde et tillegg som utdyper hovedtanken om religion. Det er også med i denne norske utgaven.

TheEncyclopaedia Iranicais Truly a Monumental Undertaking, Containing thousands of carefully selected items of information covering most aspects of Iranian civilization past and present. As the first seven volumes demonstrate, it is an indispensable reference work that belongs in the libraries of all universities and in the homes of everyone interested in Iran, whether for professional or personal reasons. In connection with ancient or pre-Islamic Iranian religions, theEIrrepresents the most important scholarly contribution since James Hastings edited the thirteen-volumeEncyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics(Edinburgh, 1908-1926, reprint New York, 1955, Edinburgh, 1994). In fact, both may be used as complementary research guides, for the rich descriptions of rituals in theEncyclopaedia of Religion and Ethicsare not repeated in theEIrwhereas the former lacks the up-to-date information on persons, places, events, ideas, theoretical standpoints, and bibliography so fully articulated in the latter.