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Reconstructing Asian America's Religious Past: A Historiography / Helen Jin Kim -- Asian American Religious Beliefs Reconsidered / Jerry Z. Park -- Outsider Citizens within the US Empire: Muslim Youth, Race, Religion, and Identity / Arshad Imtiaz Ali -- American Apartheid for the New Millennium: The Racialization and Repression of Asian American Religious Minorities / Jaideep Singh -- Where the History Books End: Religion and Vietnamese America in the Afterlife of the Vietnam War / Mimi Khúc -- The Gospel According to Rice: The Next Asian American Christianity / Rudy V. Busto -- Postscript: (Re)Thinking and (Re)Creating Asian American Christianities through a Gospel According to (Fried) Rice? / Tat-siong Benny Liew -- Modernity in the Service of Tradition: Women and Gender within Hinduism in the United States / Anjana Narayan and Bandana Purkayastha -- Life in the Fishbowl: An Asian American Autobiographical Theological Reflection / Joseph Cheah -- Learning Hinduism through Comics and Popular Culture / Sailaja Krishnamurti -- Queer Asian American Theologies / Patrick S. Cheng -- The Roots of Chinese American Religious Nones: Continuities with the Liyi Tradition / Seanan Fong and Russell Jeung.

ch. 1. Definitions of religion. The dawn of religious ideas -- ch. 2. The religious cult of the totemic people -- ch. 3. Magic and fetishism -- ch. 4. Hero cult and mythology -- ch. 5. Sacred symbols -- ch. 6. The stellar cult -- ch. 7. The stellar cult (continued) -- ch. 8. The stellar cult (continued) -- ch. 9. The great pyramid of Ghizeh -- ch. 10. Different phases of the stellar cult -- ch. 11. The lunar cult -- ch. 12. The solar cult -- ch. 13. The solar cult (continued) -- ch. 14. The Jews and Israelites -- ch. 15. Babylonian cult -- ch. 16. Buddhism -- ch. 17. The Druids -- ch. 18. Mohammedism -- ch. 19. Cult of Christianity -- ch. 20. Conclusion.

Bibliography: leaves 205-213. ; This study explores the vexed problem of authenticity in religion. In making that exploration, the study uses for its data the multitude of diverse and disparate religious formations found in the relatively disordered and anarchic spaces created with Internet technologies, formations that I have tentatively called virtual religions. The theoretical framework applied here is developed from the unique and original critical theory of Walter Benjamin. This study is therefore located at a number of important intersections: between religion and popular culture, between religion and politics, between religion and philosophy, and between religion and art. The argument is comprised of three major parts, corresponding to Chapters Two, Three and Four respectively. The first part approaches authenticity from the perspective of empiricism, with its scientific methods of verification and falsification. The keyword here is forensics because it implies both the scientific paradigm and police detection. This second implication is an important addition to the first because it draws attention to power in the vexed problem of religious authenticity.

This book offers a variety of theoretical perspectives on the study of religion that bridge the gap between mainstream concerns of sociologists and the sociology of religion. Following an assessment of the current state of the field, the authors develop an emerging critical perspective within the sociology of religion with particular focus on the importance of historical background. Re-assessing the themes of aesthetics, listening and different degrees of spiritual self-discipline, the authors draw on ethnographic studies of religious involvement in Norway and the UK.

The purpose of this study is to focus on the intersection of religion and politics. Do different religions result in different politics? More specifically, are there significant contrasts between the political attitudes and behavior of Catholics and Protestants in Latin America?

Provides views on multiple sides of curriculum and instruction issues in America's schools and offers more in-depth resources for further exploration. This volume examines religion in schools, covering such varied issues as prayer and religious activity, curricular issues, the pledge of allegiance, religious clothing and dress

This article introduces the subject of the symposium, by outlining the main points of the debate, developed in the past two centuries, about the compatibility of religion with democratic institutions and values. The different points of view about the adaptability to democracy of specific religious traditions, and their potential for change, are also sketched. Adapted from the source document.

"Bei der Analyse politisch-religiöser Konflikte müssen sowohl die inneren Strukturen Politischer Theologien als auch die äußeren sozialen, ökonomischen und politischen Ursachen berücksichtigt werden. Prinzipiell zeichnen sich Religionen durch eine Ambivalenz des Sakralen aus, die unter gravierenden äußeren Bedrohungssituationen das Gewalt- und Konfliktpotenzial der Religionen freisetzen kann." (Autorenreferat)