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Prof. Brague explores in this interview the usefulness of the study of medieval thought in order to understand the problems of our time. He reflects on the different approaches to reason, politics and religion in Islam and Christianity, and the problems which derivate from the radical modern separation between society and religion. Is it correct to ascribe the casuse of social conflicts to religion or to a strong rationality? Is it possible in the long run to build a society without any religion? Why is the notion of natural law controversial in modern times? And what is the relation between natural law and the law of God, as proposed by certain religions?

This book presents an integrated review and critical analysis of the recent research in the positive psychology of religion, with focus on the positive psychology of religion across different cultures and religions. The book provides a review of the literature on different contributions of religion and spirituality to positive functioning and well-being and reviews religions across the world, including Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, Sikhism, Native American religions, and Hinduism.? It fills a unique place in the market's increasing interest and demand in the psychology of religion, as well as positive psychology. While the target audience is researchers, scholars, and students in psychology, cross-cultural studies, religious studies, and social sciences, it will be useful for anyone interested in better understanding the contributions of religion and culture in subjective well-being.

In this review essay, I discuss interdisciplinary and comparative research that is taking place in the fields of religious, gender, and sexuality studies. I make a case for the academic and political relevance of research projects that are interdisciplinary – and that therefore generate multi-layered knowledge by starting from various points of view – as well as projects that are comparative of nature in the sense that they do not isolate a specific social group or trend but reveal certain specificities through comparison. As a religious studies scholar interested in the construction of differences (religious, ethnic, gender, sexuality), I believe it is increasingly important to study and compare different identities and communities in contemporary diverse West-European contexts. Such comparative research provides insights in the many commonalities, but also variances, between various groups of people, not as essential differences, but as differences-being-made-and-in-the-making. To give an example: How and why are the identities and experiences of Christian, Muslim and secular women (or youth, men, or LGBTQ's) similar or divergent? Interdisciplinary comparative research may yield insights into unexpected complexities but also possibilities for political solidarity. Thinking through the above questions, I will start this essay with a review of the 2016 book by Line Nyhagen and Beatrice Halsaa, Religion, Gender and Citizenship: Women of Faith, Gender Equality and Feminism. I then point at some other research examples on religion, gender and sexuality across different European contexts that are exemplifying the type of interdisciplinary and comparative research that I find to be so crucial.

Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality provides readers with a critical overview of what psychology tells us about religion and spirituality. It is concise without being simplistic, and the first such broad overview to be published for some years. Fraser Watts recognizes that 'religion' is complex and multi-faceted, taking different forms in different people and contexts. The book presents a broad view of psychology; whatever kind of psychology you are interested in, you will find it covered here, from biological to social, and from experimental to psychoanalytic. It focuses particularly on the varied concepts that psychologists have employed to make sense of religion and subjects them to critical examination. The book is also concerned with practical applications, helping those engaged in religious ministry. It will be of interest to undergraduates and general readers, as well as specialists in religious studies, psychology, and philosophy of religion.

Die Verfasserin beginnt mit einer ideengeschichtlichen Betrachtung der Säkularisierung und des Prinzips der weltanschaulichen Neutralität des Staates. Sie diskutiert im Folgenden drei Hypothesen, die unterschiedliche empirische Einschätzungen und normative Bewertungen von Religion widerspiegeln: (1) die anthropologische Hypothese, die nach assoziativen oder dissoziativen Effekten von Religion auf das politische Zusammenleben fragt; (2) die Genesis-Hypothese, die die Bedeutung der Herkunft der modernen Welt aus dem Prozess der Ablösung von der Religion thematisiert; (3) die Geltungshypothese, die nach dem Anspruch der Religion auf Geltung innerhalb der Politik fragt. Die Verfasserin betont als Fazit ihrer Überlegungen, dass es plausible Gründe dafür gibt, die Religion im Kernbestand des politiktheoretischen Denkens zu verankern. (ICE2)

Contributors include Iain T. Benson, executive director, Centre for Cultural Renewal; Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago; H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr, professor of philosophy, Rice University and professor emeritus, Baylor College of Medicine; Douglas Farrow; William Galston, professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland; The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, PC, chief justice of Canada; David Novak, J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies and professor of philosophy, University of Toronto; Margaret Somerville, Samuel Gale Professor of Law and Professor, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University; and Prince El Hassan bin Talal, chairman of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

Contents -- About the Authors -- Introduction \ Steven Brint and Jean Reith Schroedel -- Part I. Evangelicals' Identity and Activism -- Chapter 1. The Cultural Capital of American Evangelicalism \ Robert Wuthnow -- Chapter 2. American Evangelicals in American Culture: Continuity and Change \ Nancy T. Ammerman -- Chapter 3. Conservative Protestantism in the United States? Toward a Comparative and Historical Perspective \ Philip S. Gorski -- Part II. Evangelicals and Intergroup Relations