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Developing the concept of "justice as discourse" -- Justice as discourse in application -- Muslim contexts I : history and heritage -- Muslim contexts II : contemporary contexts -- Terms of engagement : (re)imagining religion, law, state, and society for Muslim contexts

Preliminary Material /Daniel Enstedt , Göran Larsson and Enzo Pace -- Introduction: Religion and Internet /Daniel Enstedt , Göran Larsson and Enzo Pace -- Cyber Sisters: Buddhist Women's Online Activism and Practice /Emma Tomalin , Caroline Starkey and Anna Halafoff -- Virtualization of Ritual: Consequences and Meaning /Tetske van Dun , Peter Versteeg and Johan Roeland -- Sleepwalkers and Higher Selves: The Mediatisation of Personality and Essence in Online Enneagram Teachings /Daniel Enstedt -- Cyberrapture: The Role of Risk on the Youvebeenleftbehind.com Website /Salvador Jimenez Murguia -- Mediatisation, Empowerment, and Sexual Inclusivity: Homosexual Protestant Activism in Contemporary China /Ping Huang and Shun-hing Chan -- Digital Catholicism: Internet, the Church, and the Vatican Website /Andrew P. Lynch -- The Internet as a Challenge for Traditional Churches: The Case of the Catholic Church in Poland /Sławomir Mandes -- Handling Deficiencies: Conditions, Modes, and Consequences of Using Online Christian Discussion Boards /Anna Neumaier -- Religious Belonging in the Facebook Era: Muslims Online, Young People Offline /Viviana Premazzi and Roberta Ricucci -- Islam Online: A Netnography of Conversion /Khalid Rhazzali -- "Stop Dudley Super Mosque and Islamic Village": Overview of the Findings from a Pilot Study /Chris Allen -- Muslim Perceptions of Identity, Community, Diversity and Authority in the Internet Age /Franz Volker Greifenhagen -- Index /Daniel Enstedt , Göran Larsson and Enzo Pace.

This article focuses on a religious structure that is intrinsic to the contemporary mechanisms that have enabled the global domination of economic power: faith in the market. Following Foucault's transition from biopolitics to governmentality, this article articulates the mechanism that generates the ability for human beings to give shape and value to their lives. Through a reading of Schmitt and Hayek, as well as an updated reading of Weber's thesis on the origin of capitalism, this article argues that we must turn our attention to the Christian motifs that shape our contemporary understanding of the 'economy'.

1. Introduction : religions and development : a new agenda? -- 2. Approaches to the theory and practice of development : from "estrangement" to "engagement" with religions -- 3. Concepts and theories for studying religions globally -- 4. Religious approaches to development -- 5. Human rights, religions and development -- 6. Gender, religions and development -- 7. Environmentalism, religions, and development -- 8. Researching and understanding the role of 'faith-based organizations' (FBOs) in development -- 9. Conclusion : religions and international development in the twenty-first century.

Revista Perspectivas del Desarrollo Vol.2(2) 2013; 13-41 ; Revista Perspectivas del Desarrollo Vol.2(2) 2013; 13-41

Cette monographie constitue le premier ouvrage qui rend compte des rapports entre la religion et l'ordre juridique au sein de l'Union européenne. Il analyse l'influence de la religion sur le droit et les limites exigées par l'Union européenne. Il dresse le tableau des principes laïcs et religieux de l'ordre public de l'Union européenne et examine comment ces principes discordants ont été réconciliés dans la réglementation européenne et la jurisprudence de la Cour de justice de l'Union européenne. Il évalue aussi l'interaction entre la législation nationale des États membres et les exigences

The article examines certain key terms, such as "beliefs" and "faith" and how these are understood in relation to the public sphere. It examines some writings of recent popularist authors such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, and is critical of the authors' claims that they do not have faith or beliefs. Drawing on legal decisions in Canada and South Africa the article suggests that this sort of terminological looseness has legal and political implications when it comes to whether or not beliefs of all sorts (religious and non-religious) are treated fairly in the public sphere.Arguing for a more diverse public sphere, the article cautions that law should give greater attention to principles of modus vivendi rather than "convergence" in which the attempt is to eradicate legally allowable positions from the public sphere and place those who hold them, and their communities, at a disadvantage. The law must not, by inflating its own role, put added pressures on the liberty that accommodation and subsidiarity require.