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Unter dem Titel »Das religiöse Feld« wurden der deutschsprachigen Öffentlichkeit in der Reihe Edition Discours vor einigen Jahren zwei bedeutende Untersuchungen Pierre Bourdieus zur Religionssoziologie zugänglich gemacht. Hier nun werden sie im Zusammenhang sämtlicher Schriften Bourdieus zur Soziologie des Religiösen neu aufgelegt.Die Auseinandersetzung mit Max Webers Religionssoziologie und der Entwurf einer eigenen Theorie der Genese und Struktur des religiösen Feldes münden hier in eine erstmals in deutscher Sprache verfügbare, empirisch groß angelegte Studie zur »Heiligen Familie« der französischen Amtskirche und ihrer Stellung im gesellschaftlichen Raum. Sie verdeutlicht vor dem Hintergrund der frühen religionstheoretischen Schriften Bourdieus, die immer wieder um die Frage der »diesseitigen« Bedingungen des Glaubens kreisen, in exemplarischer Weise die Potenziale der Bourdieuschen Feldtheorie und ihrer kritischen Reflexivität auf die soziale Welt.InhaltEine Interpretation der Religion nach Max WeberGenese und Struktur des religiösen FeldesDie »Heilige Familie«. Das französische Episkopat im Feld der MachtSoziologie des Glaubens und der Glaube des SoziologenDas Lachen der BischöfeDie Auflösung des ReligiösenNachweiseEditorische AnmerkungenPierre Bourdieus Religionssoziologie: Eine werkbiografische Skizze von Stephan Egger

"The substance of the following pages was delivered as the Martha Upton lectures in religion for 1922, at Manchester College, Oxford, under the title 'Three great religions'. Parts of chapters I., III., IV., and V. were delivered at King's College of the University of London, in the fall of the same year, under the title 'The religion of democracy'. The main thesis to which the work is devoted was presented to the Aristotelian Society of London in January 1923, in a paper entitled 'The problem of classification in religion'."--Pref. ; Printed in Great Britain. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Religion in the modern (post)-industrial societies is still a significant social fact that in many ways connects everyday social, political and economic activities. Area of South-east Europe (SEE), or more precisely countries like Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Romania, from the perspective of sciences that are exploring religion/religiosity are heuristically abundant. Source of misconceptions and misunderstandings of the "religious factor" in SEE largely stems from a lack of understanding of the fact that by no means is South-east Europe a homogeneous space. Exploration of these countries constantly refers to a fact that no convergence concerning religion can be observed for all of the mentioned countries, particularly if taken into account the fact that among those countries are those with high level of secularisation, for instance Slovenia, or those with high level of religiosity, for instance Croatia or Romania. Two research goals are set in this paper. The first one refers to the overall religious landscape in SEE countries. In this section the distribution of various elements of personal religiosity, on aggregate level, is presented for the purpose of understanding religious profile of SEE countries. Since religiosity is a multidimensional construct, several measurements of religiosity are chosen: indicator of religious self-assessment , indicator of belonging to a religious community, frequency of attendance at religious services as an indicator of religious practice, indicators of religious beliefs (traditional and alternative), indicator of importance of God in one´s own life, and indicator of religion as a source of comfort and strength. Beside insight into religiosity, religion` s role is explored from the perspective of social expectations. Since religion can be enrolled in various fields in public sphere, for the purpose of the analysis of religion` role in SEE, three main dimensions of public sphere have been operationalized: general social role of religion, socio-cultural role of religion and socio-political role.

Both the critical & the systemic perspectives that currently inform the sociology of religion deal with the connection between myth & reality in contemporary society, but neither is sufficiently forceful to sway scientific opinion. The critical view, as articulated by Roland Robertson (Meaning and Change. Explorations in the Cultural Sociology of Modern Societies, New York: New York U Press, 1978), argues that present-day reality has little to do with myth, even in fragmented form; although it holds that as individuals mature, they may be attracted to various mythic presentations. A systemic orientation, as held by Sabino Acquaviva (The Decline of the Sacred in Industrial Society, Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell, 1979) maintains that sacred beliefs can be integrated into secular society through institutions (eg, the U & the law). Another distinction is observed in priestly & prophetic methodological approaches (eg, to language). Sociologists, who use a combination of theoretical & methodological approaches, need to be aware of the persistence of myth in nonscientific social reality. D. Dunseath.

Introduction / Asli U. Bali and Hanna Lerner -- The curious case of religion in the Norwegian Constitution / John Madeley -- Religion and the Japanese Constitution / Helen Hardacre -- Constitution making and religion in West Germany in the shadow of state failure / Tine Stein -- Secularism in a sectarian society : the divisive drafting of the 1926 Lebanese Constitution / Mark Farha -- The Constitution of a "laic" African and Muslim country : Senegal / Soulaymane Bachir Diagne -- Constitution writing and religious divisions in Turkey / Ergun Ozbudun -- Constitutionalism, Islamic law, and religious freedom in post-independent Indonesia / Mirjam Kunkler -- Cross-cutting rifts in constitutions and minority rights : India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka / Shylashri Shankar -- Islamic law in an Islamic Republic : what role for parliament? / Matthew Nelson -- Constitutional impasse, democracy and religion in Israel / Hanna Lerner -- Islam and constitutionalism in the Arab world : the puzzling course of Islamic inflation / Nathan Brown -- The politics of sacred paralysis : Islam in recent Moroccan and North African constitutions / David Mednicoff -- Dancing by the cliff : constitution writing in post-revolutionary Tunisia, 2011-2014 / Nadia Marzouki -- Designing constitutions in religiously divided societies / Asli U. Bali and Hanna Lerner.

Religion is becoming increasingly salient in and around, but not confined to, the American workplace. The rise of openly faith-based organizations and discourse surrounding the role and importance of spirituality are just a couple of the indicators that religion, in its various guises, is playing a role in organizational life. With few exceptions, however, scholarly research has sidestepped the issue of religion, and, perhaps unwittingly, discourse surrounding spirituality seems to imply that religion is a benign and positive force. Rather than implicitly or explicitly assuming that religion is a benign, positive force in organizations, in this paper, we suggest that organizational scholars need to rigorously address the potential consequences of religion at work in a dispassionate manner that acknowledges both the benefits/adaptive outcomes and the challenges/maladaptive outcomes. Specifically, adopting primarily a psychological approach, we theorize about two fundamental tensions produced by contemplations about religion and the concept of God at work and the conditions under which benefits versus challenges may prevail. These exemplary tensions, virtuousness versus "more-virtuous-than-thou" and prosociality and ethicality versus egocentrism, highlight the fact that religion has the potential to result in both adaptive and maladaptive outcomes for organizations and their members. Importantly, for each tension, we theorize about the initial conditions under which beneficial/adaptive or challenging/maladaptive outcomes will prevail. We also explore the critical role that the wider context plays in understanding these tensions and how religion affects organizational life.