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Preliminary Material /Heather Shipley -- Introduction (Contexts, Contestations and Voices) /Heather Shipley -- The Rise of Anti-Gay Right Activism in the u.s.: A Review of Major Sociological Theories /Rebecca Barrett-Fox -- Desiring Justice, Acting Jnana: Transforming the Transsexual Legal Fantasy from the Perspectives of Žižekian and Mahayana Buddhist Philosophies /Chiu Man-chung -- Talking Sexuality: Religious Identity Construction in Rural Canada /Kate Power -- Only Skin Deep: Revising the Secular Narrative through Circumcision /Amélie Barras and Dia Dabby -- Obama's Neo-New Deal: Religion, Secularism, and Sex in Political Debates Now /Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini -- Issues of Gender and Sexuality in a Brazilian Technical School: Displacements and Exclusion Processes /Ana Cristina Leal Moreira Lima , Vera Helena Ferraz de Siqueira and Marcia Bastos de Sá -- A Weberian-Troeltschian Examination of the Relationship between Religious/Spiritual Identities and Human Sexuality: The Case of the Proposed Anglican Communion Covenant /Riva Lieflander -- Religion and Homosexuality in Contemporary China: Debates, Identity, and Voices /Shun Hing Chan and Ping Huang -- Negotiating Sexual Rights in the u.k.: Christian Constituencies and Contested Moralities /Stephen Hunt -- Charismatic Protestantism, Gender and Sexuality in Brazil /Nina Rosas and Cristina Maria de Castro -- English Evangelicals, Equality and the City /Anna Strhan -- 'They Go Burn in Hell!' Exploring How African MSM Negotiate Religion and Sexuality in Canada /Nesochi Chinwuba -- Values and Practices: How are Youth in Canada Integrating Religion and Sexuality in their Daily Lives? /Heather Shipley and Pamela Dickey Young -- Mapping Queer, Mapping Me: Visualizing Queer Religious Identity /Yvette Taylor and Ria Snowdon -- Conclusion /Heather Shipley -- Index /Heather Shipley.

Although an expanding literature on "stratification beliefs" has developed over the past three decades, research has neglected relationships between religion & beliefs about poverty & other inequalities. This study examines the relationship between religious affiliation & "individualistic," "structuralist," & "fatalistic" beliefs about the causes of poverty, & compares the beliefs of African Americans, Latinos, & whites. Survey data collected in 1993 from a sample of southern Californians are used to test whether several religious affiliations (Protestant, Catholic, Jew, "other religion," & nonaffiliation) shape beliefs about poverty after controlling for race/ethnicity, SES, gender, & age. In addition, the question of whether African Americans, Latinos, & whites differ in the effects of key religious affiliations is examined. Significant religious affiliation effects are found, net of sociodemographic controls. Protestants & Catholics are strongest on individualistic beliefs; Jews & followers of "other" religions are strongest on structuralist beliefs; Catholics & Jews are strongest on fatalistic beliefs. Finally, race/ethnic differences are found for the effects of key religious affiliations. The analyses demonstrate "religious factors" shaping beliefs about poverty, & reinforce the growing body of evidence that affiliations such as Protestant & Catholic have distinctive meanings & effects along race/ethnic lines in the US. 3 Tables, 43 References. Adapted from the source document.

The past generation has witnessed a resurgence of religion in global politics, but political science has been slow to catch up with it. The reason lies in the secularism embedded in the field's major theories, one that reflects actual secularism in world politics, beginning with the events surrounding the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 & growing steadily through the middle twentieth century. Today, a small but growing number of political scientists have begun to explore religion, doing so in ways that depart from secular assumptions & embrace religion's distinctiveness to greater & lesser degrees. Adapted from the source document.

Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion publishes empirical and theoretical studies of religion from a wide range of disciplines and from all parts of the globe. A special section is devoted to the issue of psychological type and religion and especially how psychological type can increase our understanding of Christian ministry. Alongside this section are papers presenting studies on subjects such as civic participation, suffering with God, and spirituality. Together these papers represent important contributions that advance theory and evidence in a number of different fields of c.

Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion publishes empirical and theoretical studies of religion from a wide range of disciplines and from all parts of the globe. A special section is devoted to the issue of psychological type and religion and especially how psychological type can increase our understanding of Christian ministry. Alongside this section are papers presenting studies on subjects such as civic participation, suffering with God, and spirituality. Together these papers represent important contributions that advance theory and evidence in a number of different fields of c

This article examines the binary of culture/religion/tradition and modern/secular/foreign and its impact on women's human rights struggles in particular in northern Nigeria. This binary is commonly perpetuated by state and non-state actors, including politicians, community leaders and religious leaders, who weaponise culture, religion and tradition to resist the struggle for gender equality. It highlights how progress around some concerns, such as rape of young girls, has occurred concurrently with attacks on other rights, particularly sexual and reproductive rights including abortion and sex outside marriage, and of those with non-normative sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions. This hardening of attitudes and narrowing of what is seen as permissible not only obscures the diversity of how people lived and thought in the past but is also far from the reality of how people live their lives presently. It further reflects the increased influence of religious fundamentalism and conservatism in northern Nigeria.

Science and Religion is a record of the 2009 Building Bridges seminar, a dialogue between leading Christian and Muslim scholars convened annually by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The essays in this volume explore how both faith traditions have approached the interface between science and religion and throw light on the ongoing challenges posed by this issue today. The volume includes a selection of relevant texts together with commentary that illuminates the scriptures, the ideas of key religious thinkers, and also the legacy of Charles Darwin

Vor 1000 Jahren lebten und wirkten Heinrich II. und Kunigunde mit all ihren Vorstellungen und Grundsätzen, die durch das Mittelalter geprägt waren. Sie waren Kinder ihrer Zeit, die Gott und die Kirche verehrten und dennoch als Herrscher nach politischer und ideeller Verwirklichung strebten. Doch ist das wirklich möglich? Kann man hegemoniale Machtansprüche und zugleich eine Förderung der Religion anstreben, ohne dass das eine oder das andere auf der Strecke bleibt? Waren Kunigunde und vor allem Heinrich politische Christen? Bewerkstelligten sie den Spagat zwischen Nächstenliebe und eigenen Ansprüchen? Oder war der Glaube womöglich nur eine Massnahme des Kaisers, den Klerus für sich zu gewinnen?

Religious Women's Invisibility : Obstacles and Opportunities -- Catholic Women Building Peace : Invisibility, Ideas, and Institutions Expand Participation / Maryann Cusimano Love -- Muslim Women's Peacebuilding Initiatives / S. Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana -- Creating Peaceful and Sustainable Communities through the Spiritual Empowerment of Women in Buddhism and Hinduism / Dena Merriam -- Jewish Women in Peacebuilding : Embracing Disagreement in the Pursuit of "Shalom" / Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen -- An All-Women Peacekeeping Group : Lessons from the Mindanao People's Caucus / Margaret Jenkins -- Women, Religion, and Peacebuilding in Kaduna State, Nigeria / Bilkisu Yusuf and Kathleen McGarvey -- The Politics of Resistance : Muslim Women Negotiating Peace in Aceh, Indonesia / Etin Anwar -- Women Reborn : A Case Study of the Intersection of Women, Religion, and Peacebuilding in a Palestinian Village in Israel / Andrea K. Blanch, with co-authors Esther Hertzog and Ibtisam Mahameed -- Women Citizens and Believers as Agents of Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Zilka Spahi? ?iljak -- Women Peacebuilders in Postcoup Honduras : Their Spiritual Struggle to Transform Multiple Forms of Violence / Monica A. Maher -- Women, Religion, and Trauma Healing : A Case in India / Anjana Dayal Prewitt -- Strengthening Religious Women's Work for Peace / Jacqueline Ogega and Katherine Marshall -- Women, Religion, and Peace : Seeking Common Ground -- Appendix: Scholars and Practitioners Engaged with Women, Religion, and Peace

Religion and accountability for restorative offender rehabilitation
Offender rehabilitation has different meanings for different people because we may have varying expectations about what rehabilitation actually looks like. Sung Joon Jang and Byron R. Johnson walk us through the role of religion and accountability in restorative rehabilitation. Rehabilitation may be determined to have been achieved based on the fact that an offender was not arrested for a new crime during a set period of time after completing a particular program or therapy. Another individual may conclude that an offender was rehabilitated when he or she was hired for a full-time job after completing an education or job training program and could retain employment for a certain period of time without getting into trouble at work.