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Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion (RSSSR) publishes reports of innovative studies that pertain empirically or theoretically to the scientific study of religion, including spirituality, regardless of their academic discipline or professional orientation. This volume of RSSSR contains articles on conversion narratives of Jehovah's witnesses, belief in an active Satan, afterlife beliefs, religiosity and parenting and spirituality as coping resource

This books explores the rise of civilizational populism throughout the world, and its consequences. Civilizational populism posits that democracy ought to be based upon enacting the 'people's will', yet it adds a new and troubling dimension to populism's thin ideology: a civilization based classification of peoples and division of society. Today, we increasingly find not conflict between civilizations, but conflict within states over their civilizational identity. From Western Europe to Turkey, and from India and Pakistan to Indonesia, populists are increasingly employing a civilization based classification of peoples in order to define the identities of 'the people' and their perceived enemies. This book is the first to examine civilizational populism as global phenomenon rather than a uniquely Western form of politics. Through a series of case studies, the book examines the role played by religion in forming civilizational identities, but also investigates the often deleterious consequences of civilizational populism entering the political mainstream. Prof. Ihsan Yilmaz is the Research Chair of Islamic Studies at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of many books, including most recently published Populist and Pro-Violence State Religion: The Diyanet's Construction of Erdogæanist Islam in Turkey (2022) and Creating the Desired Citizen: Ideology, State and Islam in Turkey (2021). Dr. Nicholas Morieson is a Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, and has previously worked as a lecturer at Australian Catholic University, Melbourne. He is the author of Religion and the Populist Radical Right: Secular Christianism and Populism in Western Europe (2021).

En los últimos treinta años, el paradigma de la secularización como modelo explicativo del cambio religioso en la modernidad ha estado sometido a intensa contestación y debate. Mientras que un número no desdeñable de sociólogos sigue manteniendo su validez, una cantidad cada vez mayor de estudiosos critican su inadecuación y proponen modelos alternativos que ayuden a explicar la sostenida presencia de la religión en las sociedades modernas. Este artículo pretende revisar el estado de este debate, que se desarrolla principalmente en el ámbito de la sociología, y contribuir a un mejor conocimiento del mismo entre los historiadores. Asimismo, se propone poner de relieve las posibilidades de reflexión para la historia religiosa y la historia en general que ofrecen las controversias actuales sobre la secularización. Por último, reivindica la utilidad del concepto secularización en el contexto español, siempre que esta se entienda como una «secularización conflictiva», una secularización problematizada en su conceptualización y en su desarrollo historiográfico.

Death ritual among Russian and Ukrainian peasants : linkages between the living and the dead / Christine D. Worobec -- Folk orthodoxy popular religion in contemporary Ukraine / Natalie Kononenko -- The miracle as sign and proof : 'miraculous semiotics' in the medieval and early modern Ukrainian mentality / Roman Holyk -- Sexuality and gender in early modern Russian orthodoxy : sin and virtue in cultural context / Valerie A. Kivelson -- The Christian sources of the cult of St Paraskeva / Eve Levin -- Popular religion in the time of Peter the Great / Paul Bushkovitch -- Letters from heaven : an encounter between the 'national movement' and 'popular culture' / Andriy Zayarnyuk -- For the beauty of God's house : notes on icon vestments and decorations in the Ruthenian Church / Sophia Senyk -- 'Social' elements in Ukrainian icons of the Last Judgment through the eighteenth century / John-Paul Himka -- Between 'popular' and 'official' : akafisty hymns and Marian icons in late imperial Russia / Vera Shevzov

Das Ziel des Beitrags ist es, die Rolle der Religion in internationalen Konflikten, besonders im Kontext der Angriffe vom 11. September, zu untersuchen und zu diskutieren. Theoretische Überlegungen leiten die Analyse. Der Verfasser vertritt die These, dass die scheinbare Prominenz religiöser Konflikte im Zusammenhang mit den Auswirkungen der Globalisierung gesehen werden muss, nämlich der Schwächung staatlicher Strukturen und der Ermächtigung nichtstaatlicher Akteure. Der Beitrag ist in drei Teile gegliedert: Zuerst zeigt eine ereignisgeschichtliche Neuuntersuchung der globalen Aufwertung von Religion auf, dass es in den letzten Jahren eher einen globalen Trend zur Desäkularisierung gegeben hat. Zum zweiten werden gängige theoretische Modelle und ihre offensichtliche Vernachlässigung der Religion im Feld der internationalen Beziehungen diskutiert. Zum dritten wird unter Bezug auf empirische Daten gezeigt, dass Religion zwar eine wichtige Quelle für die Identitätsbildung der Weltbevölkerung darstellt, sie aber nicht aus sich heraus als eine neue Quelle internationaler Konflikte angesehen werden kann. (ICF2)

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- The Theo-democratic Vision of Religious Fundamentalists -- SECTION I: THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEBATE REGARDING THE ESTABLISHMENT AND FREE EXERCISE CLAUSE -- Exercise Clauses: Introduction and Discussion -- Explaining the Complexities of Religion and State in the United States: Separation, Integration, and Accommodation -- Public Funds and Religious Schools: The Next Prayer Debate? -- The Rise of State Law Sanctuary for Minority Religious Liberty in the Wake of the Fall of Federal Constitutional Protection of Nonmainstream Faiths -- SECTION II: HOLY AND UNHOLY WAR: RELIGION, VIOLENCE, AND NONVIOLENCE -- Religious (Ill)Literacy and (Un)Civil Liberties in the United States: Past and Present -- The Search for Meaning in Islam: Between Violence and Nonviolence -- Islam at the Crossroads of Extremism and Moderation: New Science, Global Peace, and Democracy -- The White Man's Wounded Knee, or, Whose Holy War Is This, Anyway? A Cautionary Tale -- Yesterday's Love, Today's Ruins: Walker Percy's Apocalyptic Vision -- SECTION III: A DILEMMA FOR DEMOCRACY: THE FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION AND THE RISE OF FUNDAMENTALISM -- Fundamentalism, Democracy, and the Contesting of Meaning -- Dilemmas of Turkish Democracy: The Encounter between Kemalist Laicism and Islamism in 1990s Turkey -- Religious Fundamentalism and Democratic Social Practices: Or, Why a Democracy Needs Fundamentalists, and Why They Need a Democracy -- On Naming Religious Extremists: The "Fundamentalist" Factor -- SECTION IV: RELIGION IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE: CHALLENGES TO THE FREE EXERCISE OF DIVERSE RELIGIOUS PRACTICES IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY -- Exceptionalism and the Immigrant Experience: America, an Unfinished Project? -- Goddess Amba Unwelcome in Edison, New Jersey: Report of a Town's Xenophobic Conflation of Race and Religion.

The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) makes no mention of religion as a possible basis for such fundamental rights. Although there was an attempt by the Dutch delegate Father De Beaufort OP to amend the pream¬ble with a reference to "Man's divine origin and his eternal des¬tiny," this was rejected as being contrary to the universal nature of the declaration. For the Saudi Arabian delegate, the fact that the declaration began and ended with the human being, without any reference to God, was sufficient reason to abstain. Indeed, Father Beaufort's formula would have been rather out of place. The Universal Declaration stems from a secular religion (religio in the classical sense of 'binding'), which arose from two centuries of Enlightenment thinking. Its starting point lies in the fundamental freedoms of the individual which have to be protected against the power of the Sovereign (the State). Al¬though the text does refer in the final articles to the community and duties of individuals with respect to the community, the gist of the UDHR remains cen¬tred on the indi¬vidual. In the period following the adoption of the Declaration the human rights pro¬ject was interpreted as a juridical challenge to legislate and to create procedural provisions for judgment of individual and state complaints. On the ba¬sis of an intrinsically neutral attitude towards the culture, regime and level of prosperity in the country concerned, human rights violations would have to be de¬nounced everywhere.

"This comprehensive book provides a comparative analysis of religious nationalism in globalized Asia. Exploring the nexus of religion, identity, and nationalism, Kingston assesses similarities and differences across the region. He focuses on how religious sentiments influence how people express nationalism, often with extreme and tragic results"--

An Orthodox Christian view of non-Christian religions -- The liturgy as self-definition and the religious other -- The people of God : an Orthodox perspective -- Reconciliation of peoples : the challenge for the church -- Recent patriarchal encyclicals on religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence -- Temple and universe : the Christian vision of the sacred -- St. John Chrysostom on social responsibility -- Religion, politics, and society : an Orthodox perspective -- Global vision and religious conviction : an Orthodox Christian reflection on globalization -- An Orthodox reflection on truth & tolerance -- Historic views on salvation outside the church -- Modern Orthodox theologians on salvation outside the church

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "A Perfect Man in a Perfect Society": The Emergence of the Social Gospel in Nineteenth-Century America -- 2. Interpreting the "Golden Rule": Turn-of-the Century Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish Reformers -- 3. Kingdom Coming: The Social Gospel and the "Social Awakening" in the Early Twentieth Century -- 4. "The Church Stands For . . .": Institutionalizing the Social Gospel -- 5. "Since Rauschenbusch-What?" The Social Gospel between the World Wars -- 6. Achieving the "Beloved Community": Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Twilight of the Social Gospel -- 7. An Evangelical Social Gospel? The Christian Right and Progressive Evangelicalism -- Conclusion: The Social Gospel in American History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

"Stag and Stone: Religion, Archaeology and Esoteric Aesthetics is a timely and innovative evaluation of the interdisciplinary dialogue between religious studies and archaeology. Investigating the core concepts of materiality, perception, ritual and agency the volume redefines conceptual categories and argues for the need of 'critical bewilderment' as a unique scholarly practice"--