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SummaryReligion is increasingly acknowledged to be a cultural dimension which affects economic outcomes in different regards. This contribution focuses on the possible impact of religion's different dimensions, the overall degree of religiosity, the specific impact of different religions, religious competition and the proximity between religion and the state, on the shadow economy. The empirical test matches the largest available cross‐section on the size of the shadow economy with numerous religious indicators. General religiosity seems to increase the shadow economy. Moreover, robust differences emerge across religions. Furthermore, a closer proximity between state and religion is typical for smaller shadow economies.

This volume investigates Paul Tillich's relationship to Asian religions and locates Tillich in a global religious context. It appreciates Tillich's heritage within the western and eastern religious contexts and explores the possibility of global religious-cultural understanding through the dialogue of Tillich's thought and East-West religious-cultural matrix.

On myth and mythologizing : an introduction / Diana Dimitrova -- Religion, myth, and gender. Seeking God : narratives of the spiritual in Amrita Bharati's work and Hindi poetry / Lucy Rosenstein -- Who is Afraid of Mīrābāī? : Gulzar's antidote for Mīrā's poison / Heidi Pauwels -- Religion and gender in Bollywood film / Diana Dimitrova -- The creative modern and the myths of the goddess Mariyamman / Perundevi Srinivasan -- Religion, myth and politics. Constructed religious feelings and communal identities in Hamārā Śahar us baras by Gītāñjali Śrī / Alessandra Consolaro -- Dharma reconsidered : the inappropriate poetry of Arun Kolatkar in Sarpa Satra / Laetitia Zecchini -- From otherland to the divine land : exile, mysticism, and secularism in K.B. Vaid's Dard lā davā / Anne Castaing -- In the face of even lesser breeds : reading Nayantara Sahgal with Indian Christians / Clara Joseph -- Censorship, social reform, and mythological drama in colonial India / Nandi Bhatia -- From Kuruksetra to Rāmarājya : a comparative analysis of the star personas of Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan / Sunny Singh

Par la genèse de la superstition proposée dans L'Émile, Rousseau montre que seul Jésus a pu manifester la religion naturelle à l'état pur. Ses disciples, marqués par la superstition, n'ont pu maintenir cette pureté : ils sont à l'origine de religions historiques nouvelles, mixtes de superstition et de religion naturelle. Pour des raisons politiques, les théologiens auraient renforcé l'élément superstitieux. Cet article montre que Rousseau aspire à un dispositif qui permettrait aux hommes d'apprendre progressivement à voir dans la religion naturelle l'essentiel de leur religion, et dans tout ce que les théologiens ont ajouté, l'accessoire. La diffusion de la « profession de foi » joue un rôle capital dans ce mouvement de purification. En attendant l'érosion complète de la croûte qui entoure le noyau (la religion naturelle), la tolérance théologique doit occuper une place centrale : grâce à elle, les hommes pourront être peu à peu convaincus que seule la religion naturelle est nécessaire et assurément vraie.

Attraverso il confronto con gli altri monasteri femminili e maschili esistenti in laguna negli stessi secoli, il presente intervento indaga il ruolo rivestito dal cenobio femminile di San Zaccaria all'interno delle vicende politiche, sociali e religiose del dogado veneziano nei secoli cruciali dell'alto medioevo. L'analisi evidenzia da un lato l'esistenza di una chiara scansione cronologica entro la quale la comunità monastica esplica in maniera più o meno incisiva una funzione di rappresentanza dapprima della famiglia dogale poi della città stessa, dall'altro in che misura tale funzione sia determinata da vicende esterne al dogado o da elementi interni al monastero stesso. ; This paper analyses the role played by the female religious community of San Zaccaria in the political, social and religious context of the Venetian Dogado during the Early Middle Ages. On the one hand, by comparing the convent with the other Venetian male and female monasteries, the study clarifies that the community exercised a more or less incisive role in representing first the doge's family, then the entire city, during a specific timeframe. On the other hand, the analysis reveals to what extent the functions the monastery exercised were influenced by events external to the Dogado or by developments within San Zaccaria itself.

"What is known in scholarly and political circles as 'globalization' is widely recognized as the wave carrying the world into the next epoch. The sociological weight of academic and political opinion lies with the conviction that globalization is either the solution to endemic problems of economic, political and cultural underdevelopment or at least inevitable. Those holding the latter opinion, the less optimistic, are less sanguine about the prospects for globalization as a panacea for a multitude of social ills, but nonetheless see no realistic alternative in the face of economic, political and cultural processes of such overwhelming force. The latter perception only heightens the tendency to accept globalization as a given and proceed to examine how a given nation can best take advantage of the opportunities it provides. The proponents of globalization have the upper hand in political, economic and cultural spheres, despite the fact that globalization clearly threatens national sovereignty, undermines traditional methods of economic regulation on behalf of the common good, and renders political authority weaker in the face of unprecedented accumulations of private power." (author's abstract)

Building from a range of essays representing multiple fields of expertise and traversing multiple religious traditions, this important text provides analytic rigor to a question now pressing the academic study of religion: what is the relationship between the material and the digital?Its chapters address a range of processes of mediation between the digital and the material from a variety of perspectives and sub-disciplines within the field of religion in order to theorize the implications of these two turns in scholarship, offer case studies in methodology, and reflect on various tools and processes. Authors attend to religious practices and the internet, digital archives of religion, decolonization, embodiment, digitization of religious artefacts and objects, and the ways in which varied relationships between the digital and the material shape religious life.Collectively, the volume demonstrates opportunities and challenges at the intersection of digital humanities and material religion. Rather than defining the bounds of a new field of inquiry, the essays make a compelling case, collectively and on their own, for the interpretive scrutiny required of the humanities in the digital age

"Jerusalem is a city with a singular nature. Home to three religions, it contains spiritual meaning for people the world over; it is at once a tourist destination and a location with a complex political reality. Tourism, therefore, is an integral part of Jerusalem's development and its political conflicts. The book traces tourism and pilgrimage to Jerusalem from the late Ottoman era, through the British Mandate, during the period of the divided city, and to the reunification of the city under Israeli rule. Throughout, the city's evolution is shown to be intertwined with its tourist industry, as tourist sites, accommodations, infrastructure, and services transform the city's structures and open spaces. At the same time, tourism is wielded by various parties in an effort to gain political recognition, to bolster territorial control, or to garner support. The city's future and the role tourism can play in it are examined. While the construction of a "security fence" will have many implications on Jerusalem's tourist industry, steps are proposed to minimize the effects of the security fence and optimize tourism. Written by leading academics, this title will be valuable reading students, academics and researchers in the fields of tourism, religious studies, geography, history, cultural studies, and anthropology"--