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In der Studie werden folgende Fragen diskutiert: Welchen Sinn macht die Verwendung religiöser Deutungsmuster für Jugendliche? Welche Funktion hat Religion im gesamten Lebensentwurf bzw. in der individuellen Lebenspraxis der Jugendlichen? Gibt es tatsächlich keine soziale oder kommunikative Funktion der religiösen Sinngebung, die über die rein private Funktion hinausgeht? Dazu werden die Ergebnisse einer Studie präsentiert, bei der anhand von biographischen Interviews mit Jugendlichen deren auf die Gestaltung des individuellen Lebensentwurfs bezogenen religiös besetzten Sinn- und Deutungsmuster rekonstruiert werden. Anhand einiger Fallbeispiele werden zwei Formen der Aneignung von Religion bzw. der religiösen Ausgestaltung lebenspraktischer Anforderungen dargestellt: der Typus der instrumentellen oder fundamentalistischen Aneignung sowie die okkasionell-soziale Aneignung. (ICA)

Sie kommen nicht voneinander los / Wolfgang Thielmann -- Fromm und rechts : das passt zusammen / Liane Bednarz -- "Vorbereitet wie ein Friseur" / Benjamin Lassiwe -- Man kennt sich / Ulrich Kasparick -- Warum Menschen die AfD wählen / Sven Petry -- Sind Freikirchen für AfD-Positionen empfänglicher? / Peter Jörgensen -- Wir müssen reden! / Christina Aus Der Au -- Warum ich für die AfD kandidiere / Hartmut Beucker -- "Einem klaren Nein würde ich mich anschliessen" / Ilka Federschmidt -- Das Presbyterium muss die Öffentlichkeit suchen / Jacob Joussen -- Die Wahrheit sagen / Markus Dröge -- Wahrnehmen, Worte finden, widersprechen / Manfred Rekowski. -- Dokumentation : Christen in der AfD? / Bettina Warken, Anette Schultner, Liane Bednarz, Markus Dröge

Implementation of religion policy in schools has provoked contradictions and contestations in South Africa and across the globe. Reports on costly and protracted court cases and legislative battles between schools and parents as well as between schools and departments of education over religion in schools have been increasing at an alarming rate. In this article, I highlight some of the school management issues involved in the implementation of religion-in-education policy in some selected South African schools. Based on mediation theory, the study used individual interviews to gather data from 12 school principals, who were purposively selected regarding their experiences on the implementation of the religion-ineducation policy in their schools. The study revealed that, despite the challenges raised by the implementation of the religion-in-education policy, the majority of the participating school principals displayed the qualities of a transformative mediator. I therefore recommend that school leadership programmes for school leaders offer mediation, and transformative mediation in particular, as a leadership and management course. Additionally, the teaching should focus on transformative mediation as a strategy that school principals can use to solve problems and handle disputes in schools. This is important because transformative mediation has potential benefits to the field of education. ; http://www.sajournalofeducation.co.za ; am2019 ; Education Management and Policy Studies

As the role of women in the society at large has changed, religion in America has responded to the changes in a number of ways. New professional roles in church and synagogue have been opened to women, including, in most mainline denominations, that of ordained clergy. Lay leadership positions as well are increasingly being filled by women. Along with these structural changes, a number of theological issues have been engendered, including the recovery of women's share of religious history, changing images of God and the church, and issues relating to sexual equality and justice. On the other hand, some religious groups have taken the lead in opposing women's assumption of more public roles and also movements to free women from the domestic role through, among other things, abortion, birth control, and divorce. These issues have been joined to larger movements over which religious groups and denominations have become polarized. They have also affected the churches' expectations of a large pool of female volunteer workers. Thus the general pattern of changing roles for women has changed the structure, both social and ideological, of American religion.

AbstractScholars of Canadian history have been remiss in overlooking conservative religious women, especially when such women claimed to be feminists. Given the commonly shared assumption that second‐wave feminism was tied to secularism, the idea that religious women could be committed feminists seems implausible. However, some conservative Christian women, including evangelicals and Pentecostals, considered themselves to be feminists, even as they actively opposed abortion. The Rev. Bernice Gerard (1923–2008) was a Pentecostal pastor, a media personality and a municipal politician in Vancouver from 1977 to 1980. Researching her life through using her own life writing provides a case study for grappling with larger questions about conservativism and feminism. In 2000, Gerard, the self‐proclaimed feminist, was named as the most significant spiritual figure in British Columbia in the twentieth century. My biographical work about her pays particular attention to her provocative and seemingly contradictory convictions and points to how she resolved the conceptual tensions that framed her religiosity using a process of 'self‐authoring'. Theoretical frameworks from the sociology of religion challenge Western feminism's implicit biases and provide useful ways to frame the complexities and paradoxes that arise in the lives of conservative women.

A few years ago I found myself at the Ogden, Utah rodeo with thirty schoolteachers from all over the world. They were participants in a Fulbright-supported American studies institute, and the trip to Utah was part of a weeklong foray into a part of America quite different from Amherst, MA, where the bulk of lectures and discussions had taken place in the previous three weeks. Our visit happened to coincide with "Armed Services Day," and the spectacle my students encountered proved even more impressive than the riding and roping they had expected. The principle feature of that spectacle had to do with the organizers' almost total confounding of religion and patriotism. At the high point of the event, over the roar of military band music and military helicopters passing overhead, the booming voice of the announcer declared that "God's helicopters" were protecting America and the rest of the world from tyranny. The books under review here endeavor to explain the spectacle in Ogden on that summer day—along with the train of events that, over sixty years ago, launched a crusade against "godless communism" and, a few decades later, made "the Christian right" a major force in American politics.

This paper provides an introductory review of the literature mapping the gendered analyses of the categories of secularism and secularization from a sociological point of view, with the aim of providing some coordinates and bibliographical references and showing the theoretical and analytical implications of the gendered analyses of secularism in relation to the grammars of contemporary democracy. Firstly, it explores how a gendered analysis contributes to redefining the analytical concepts of secularism and secularization. Secondly, it highlights the contributions of women's, gender, and queer studies to the analysis of secularism and religion. Thirdly, it focuses on the tensions between women's and religious agency, showing how and to what extent the debate internal to the sociology of religion is in fact highly relevant to current sociological analyses. ; Através de uma revisão de caráter introdutório da literatura, este artigo visa cartografar as análises das categorias secularismo e secularização desenvolvidas a partir de uma perspetiva de género e de um ponto de vista sociológico, com o objetivo de fornecer algumas coordenadas e referências bibliográficas, bem como de mostrar as implicações teóricas e analíticas deste tipo de estudos do secularismo em relação às gramáticas da democracia contemporânea. Em primeiro lugar, explora-se a forma como uma análise levada a cabo sob a perspetiva de género contribui para redefinir os conceitos analíticos de secularismo e secularização. Em segundo lugar, destacam-se os contributos dos estudos sobre as mulheres, de género e queer para a análise do secularismo e da religião. Em terceiro lugar, realçam-se as tensões entre a intervenção política das mulheres e da religião, mostrando como e em que medida o debate em curso no âmbito da sociologia da religião é, de facto, de grande importância para os estudos sociológicos atuais. ; Par le truchement d'une révision au caractère préliminaire de la littérature, cet article a pour but de cartographier les analyses des catégories de sécularisme et de sécularisation développées à partir d'un point de vue de genre et d'une perspective sociologique, dans le but de fournir quelques coordonnés et références bibliographiques, tout autant que de montrer les implications théoriques et analytiques de ce type d'études du sécularisme para rapport aux grammaires de la démocratie contemporaine. Tout d'abord, nous cherchons à savoir comment une analyse menée d'un point de vue de genre contribue à redéfinir les concepts analytiques de sécularisme et de sécularisation. Ensuite, nous mettons en relief des études sur les femmes, de genre et queer pour l'analyse du sécularisme et de la religion. Enfin, nous soulignons les tensions existant entre l'intervention politique des femmes et la religion, en démontrant comment et dans quelle mesure le débat en cours dans le cadre de la sociologie de la religion revêt, de fait, une haute importance pour les études sociologiques actuelles.

Der Beitrag behandelt das Spannungsfeld von Religion und Politik in den USA. Nicht zuletzt die Jahre der Bush-Regierung haben hier die Unterschiede zwischen alter und neuer Welt deutlich zutage treten lassen. Die Politisierung von Religion und Religiosität zu Zeiten des Wahlkampfes, z. B. durch die Instrumentalisierung sogenannter "moral issues" (Homo-Ehe, Abtreibung) oder durch Parolen wie "God and Guns" (Sarah Palin), wäre in Deutschland nur schwer vorstellbar. Unter Zuhilfenahme der jeweiligen geschichtlichen Voraussetzungen beleuchtet der Verfasser den unterschiedlichen Umgang mit weltanschaulichen Minderheiten und das jeweilige Verständnis religiöser Freiheit in den USA und in Deutschland. (ICE2)

DESPITE SEVERAL DECADES OF RELIGIOUS SUPPRESSION BY THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY, RELIGIONS HAVE EXPERIENCED PHENOMENAL GROWTH IN MAINLAND CHINA SINCE THE MID-1980'S. CURRENTLY, VARIOUS RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS, PARTICULARLY THE TRADITIONAL FOLK RELIGIONS, ARE EVIDENT THROUGHOUT CHINA, WITH THE FASTEST GROWTH IN THE COASTAL PROVINCES, SUCH AS FUKIEN AND CHEKIANG. THIS REAPPEARANCE OF RELIGION HAS EMERGED AS A MAJOR SOCIAL FORCE INCREASINGLY CATCHING THE ATTENTION OF BOTH THE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT AND CHINESE SCHOLARS. FOCUSING ON FUKIEN AND CHEKIANG PROVINCES, THIS PAPER SUGGESTS A NEW PARADIGM TO LOOK AT RELIGION IN CHINESE SOCIETY, TRACES THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERAL MAJOR RELIGIONS IN THE 20TH CENTURY, SUMMARIZES THE CURRENT STATUS OF THESE RELIGIONS, AND ANALYZES THEIR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL IMPACT ON MAINLAND CHINA.

The question of the proper place of religion in the liberal state has gained increasing prominence in Rawlsian political philosophy. In A Theory of Justice, Rawls posited that religious liberty was the most basic of the basic liberties and, in Political Liberalism, he set out to show that sincere religious belief was not incompatible with principled commitment to the liberal state. Should, however, the liberal state be a state of separation (of state and religion) or of recognition and establishment (of religion by the state)? On this matter, political liberals disagree. This article seeks to explain the nature of this disagreement. I first show that political liberalism, as a theory of justice, is inconclusive about the public place of religion. Both separation and establishment (or, more plausibly, a combination of the two) can theoretically meet the demands of liberal justice. I then turn to the core issue of the separation-establishment debate, which asks whether the liberal state can legitimately attach itself to religious symbols. I suggest that (what I call) 'orthodox' political liberalism is indeterminate about the symbolic dimensions of the public place of religion. By contrast, a citizenship-centred, 'republican' conception of political liberalism decisively rules out symbolic establishment. Political liberal defences of the separation of church and state, such as Martha Nussbaum's recent eulogy of US Establishment Clause jurisprudence, implicitly rely on such a republican, citizenship-centred conception of political liberalism. The article sets out such a conception, and highlights the role it plays in arguments about the public place of religion. Adapted from the source document.

"War and Religion: The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s" published on by Oxford University Press.