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"Crime, Criminal Justice & Religion: A Critical Appraisal seeks to bridge a gap in the examination of crime and criminal justice by taking both a historical and contemporary lens to explore the influence of religion. Offering unique perspectives that consider the impact on modern day policy and practice, the book scrutinizes a range of issues such as abortion, hate crime and desistance as well as reflecting upon the influence religion can have on criminal justice professions. The book acts to renew the importance of, and recognise, the influence and impact religion has in terms of how we view and ultimately address crime and deliver criminal justice. One of the first books to cover the area of crime, criminal justice and religion, the book is split into three parts, with part 1 - Contextualising Crime, Criminal Justice & Religion providing an introduction to crime, criminal justice & religion and reflections on the role religion has had, and continues to have, in how crime is understood and how we respond to it. Part 2 - Appraisal of Institutions & Professional Practice considers the issue of religion through institutions and professions of criminal justice, such as the police and legal profession, while part 3 - Appraisal of Contemporary Issues explores a range of crime and criminal justice issues in on which religion has impacted, such as the death penalty and terrorism. Crime, Criminal Justice & Religion will be of primary interest to academics, researchers and students in criminology, law, sociology, psychology, social policy and related HASS disciplines. It will also be of interest to theologians, both as scholars and practitioners. The book is a body of work that will appeal at an international level and will also be a key resource for a range of practitioners across the globe working on issues concerning crime and criminal justice"--

L'objectif de cet article est de mettre en évidence une intersection entre la recherche sur les spiritualités contemporaines et la recherche dans le domaine de la religion numérique. Le concept de la production entre pairs basée sur les communs ("commons-based peer production"), développé dans les domaines des technologies numériques sociales et de la collaboration en réseau, offre une alternative à l'analogie largement utilisée du supermarché spirituel, là où il s'agit de décrire et d'expliquer l'éclectisme présent dans quelques spiritualités contemporaines.

Ansgar Kreutzer/Hans-Joachim Sander (Hg.) Religion und soziale Distinktion -- Impressum -- Inhalt -- Einleitung -- 1. "Bour-DIEU -- 2. Ein Brennpunkt Bourdieu'scher Soziologie: "Soziale Distinktion -- 3. Zu den Beiträgen -- Gernot Saalmann De Bourdieu à dieu -- 1. Biographische Skizze -- 2. Ein attraktiver Neuansatz -- 3. Individuelle Praxis -- 4. Gesellschaftliches Zusammenwirken -- 5. Religionssoziologie mit Bourdieu -- 6. Zur Diskussion gestellt -- Literatur -- Eric Ottenheijm Bourdieu und die Exegese -- 1. Gleichnisse als neue Form religiösen Unterrichts -- 2. Gleichnisse Jesu und der Rabbinen -- 3. Galiläa und das "religiöse Feld -- 4. Das Bildfeld und der soziale Ort der Hörer -- 5. "Sprechakt" und kommunikative Situation -- 6. Soziale Krise und religiöse Perspektive: das Gleichnis von den zwei Söhnen (Lk 15,11-32) -- 6.1 Das Haus des Vaters -- 6.2 Die Krise der Erbschaft -- 7. Schlussreflexion -- Literatur -- Hans-Joachim Sander Die Herrschaft der Oblaten und die Ohnmacht der Erben -- 1. Die Reproduktion des religiösen Feldes in der katholischen Kirche - ein familial verschleierter Kapitalprozess -- 2. Die Komplexität der Reproduktionsvorgänge im religiösen Feld - der Raum eines sperrigen Dritten zwischen Glauben und Religion -- 3. Die Individualisierung des Spirituellen und seine Unsichtbarkeit -- 4. Von Erben und Oblaten - die habituelle Transformation der katholischen Hierarchie -- 5. Der dreigeteilte Herrschaftsdiskurs - eine nicht im Gleichgewicht haltbare Matrix -- 6. Wider den Gallikanismus - die Auslieferung der kirchlichen Führung an die Oblaten -- 7. Jenseits der "Selbstverzwergung" - der andere Ort kirchlicher Souveränität -- Literatur -- Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer Zur praxeologischen Hermeneutik der Theologie -- 1. Bruch: Methode und Wahrheit -- 2. Relation, Erkenntnis, Religion -- 2.1 Relation -- 2.2 Erkenntnis

This article is about the way that the notion of religion is understood and used in election manifestos of populist and nationalist right-wing political parties in Germany and the Netherlands between 2002 and 2021. In order to pursue such enquiry, a discourse on the nature of manifestos of political parties in general and election manifestos specifically is required. Election manifestos are important socio-scientific and historical sources. The central question that this article poses is how the notion of religion is included in the election manifestos of three Dutch (LPF, PVV, and FvD) and one German (AfD) populist and nationalist parties, and what this inclusion reveals about the connection between religion and populist parties. Religious keywords in the election manifestos of said political parties are researched and discussed. It leads to the conclusion that the notion of religion is not central to these political parties, unless it is framed as a stand against Islam. Therefore, these parties defend the Jewish-Christian-humanistic nature of the country encompassing the separation of 'church' or faith community and state, the care for the historical and cultural heritage of church buildings, and the subordination of the freedom of religion to the freedom of expression. The election manifestos also reveal that Buddhism and Hinduism are absent in the discourses of these political parties. ; Peer reviewed

Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe presents, through the inclusion of contributions by international scholars, a global examination of how a number of contemporary societies are regulating religious groups. It focuses on legal efforts to exert social control over such groups, especially through court cases, but also with selected major legislative attempts to regulate them. As such, this analysis falls within the broad area of the sociology of social control and more specifically, legal social control, a topic of great interest when studying how contemporary societies attempt to maintain social order. The factual details about social and legal developments in societies where religion has been defined as problematic include Western and Eastern Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. This book will be of interest to researchers and students in the sociology of religion, the sociology of law, social policy, and religious studies as well as policy makers

Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. So a theory that claims to explain prominent features of ritual, myth, and belief in all contexts everywhere causes ethnographers a skeptical pause. In Ritual and Memory, however, a wide range of ethnographers grapple critically with Harvey Whitehouse's theory of two divergent modes of religiosity. Although these contributors differ in their methods, their areas of fieldwork, and their predisposition towards Whitehouse's cogniti

"This concluding volume of the Future of the Religious Past series approaches contemporary religion through the lens of practice: the rituals, performances, devotions, and everyday acts through which humans do religion. In spite of predictions about the inevitability of secularism, religion in the twenty-first century remains stubbornly resilient, and Gestures: The Study of Religion as Practice offers a new vantage point from which to see the religious as a category shaped and reshaped by modernity, and to encounter religion not as something bounded by doctrines and sacred texts, but as lived experience. Twenty-four globally based scholars look to practice to examine such diverse phenomena as human rights, memory, martyrdom, dress and fashion, colonial legacies, blasphemy, mass political action, and the future of secularism"--

This paper considers the phenomenon of institutionalized sport from a sociology of religion perspective, with the intention of providing a systematic basis for the frequent but often too-facile analogies drawn between sport and religion. Sensitizing dimensions are drawn from sport in order to render this complex phenomenon more amenable to conceptual analysis. Several prominent sociological definitions of religion are introduced, and institutional sport is assessed for "goodness of fit" with these definitions. The analytic emphasis is on symbols, but the utility of the sociology of religion foci of beliefs and practices is also detailed. Both participants and spectators are seen to sym bolize, to hold beliefs, and to engage in ritual practices pertaining to sport. After finding considerable support for the general contention that sport is at least quasi-religious in nature, projections are offered for future research and for broader theoretical development. 1. The data presented here were not in any sense collected purposefully for use in this paper, but are rather of the nature to accrue to anyone ac tively engaged in everyday social life. As with any data utilized in social science, their reliability rests upon their congruence with observations made by others, whether lay or professional. 2. By "empirical generalizations" is meant the generalized descriptions, il lustrations, and assessments rendered from the data as described in note 1, above. 3. It should be realized at the outset that these sensitizing dimensions are in no way to be considered mutually exclusive or exhaustive. According ly, it will not always be possible to neatly categorize particular empirical examples within one of the three dimensions. The participants, spec tators, and organization of sport are highly interrelated. An attempt will be made to reach some degree of analytic clarity without resultantly destroying the natural character of these interrelations. 4. It should be mentioned here the sport may, for some spectators, be a direct enaction of ultimate problems of human life. Primarily, this is because, for some fans, seemingly nothing is more important than the outcome of a particular boxing match or a victory in the Super Bowl of their favorite team. More directly, for participants, it is sometimes the case that sport can involve virtual life and death situations, such as in various forms of mechanized racing. 5. This quote has been attributed both to George Allen and to Vince Lom bardi (football coaches, each). It has been repeated by enough coaches that its source is perhaps no longer an issue.