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Introduction: Religion, social action, and the environment -- Connections: Sacred stories, sacred springs -- Communities: Harvesting and respecting the wild -- Sustenance: Food security, agricultural innovation, and environmental degradation -- Ignitions: Sacred tools, ritual fires, and the value of things -- Watersheds: Scale, place, and consilience -- Sanctuaries: Preservation of species, ecosystems, and natural features -- Megacities: Sacred space, urban planning, and built environments -- Healing: The iconography of pollution and planetary wellness -- Networks: Tackling global climate and sea change -- Models: Conceptual approaches to a planetary future -- Commonalities: Greening and the challenges of modernity.

"This book offers a general theory of violent radicalization and uses case studies from a variety of different countries and groups to illustrate this. The first and fundamental objective of the book is to provide an explanatory framework to understand phenomena related to violent radicalization, deradicalization, the prevention of radicalization and to political violence; in particular, that inspired by religion. The second objective follows from the first. Understanding violent radicalization of religious inspiration implies delving into two key concepts: violent radicalization and religion. This second objective is indeed elusive, since, on the one hand, many liberal democracies have undergone processes of secularization or, at least, have lost interest in examining religion in public debates. Therefore, rigorously exploring social problems where religion seems to be involved, in one way or another, is complicated. Moreover, the notion of violent radicalization, in turn, is highly contested and confused with other ideas, such as polarization, extremism, terrorism or nonviolent radicalization. Finally, the book aims to bring theory into dialogue with empirical phenomena, and to test it against concrete cases related to violent radicalization and its prevention, on the one hand, and religion, on the other. The book's originality comes from both its innovative methodological approach and its breadth, with cases from several countries (Spain, the United States, Ireland, India, Israel, Russia and Colombia) and different ideological groups (revolutionary communists, nationalist movements, Jihadist groups, white and black supremacists). This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism and political violence, radicalisation, sociology and International Relations in general"--

Frontmatter -- Editorial -- Inhalt -- Vorwort -- I Einleitung: »Das scheint mir keine schlechte Art, die Ewigkeit herumzubringen« -- II (Fußball-)Fans in der Literatur -- 1. Fußball als Religion? -- 2. Fans als Gegenstand sozialwissenschaftlich-empirischer Forschung -- 3. Forschungsdesiderat -- III Methodologie und angewandte Methoden -- 1. Verortung in der qualitativen Sozialforschung -- 2. Methodologie -- 3. Das Konzept der Ethnographie -- 4. Analyse und Interpretation -- 5. Aufbau der Arbeit -- IV Von den Blauen - in der kleinen sozialen Lebenswelt der Fans -- 1. Erste Entscheidungen -- 2. Wissen als Ressource von Sinn- und Bedeutung unter Fans -- 3. Wie ich einer von den Blauen wurde -- 4. »Entscheidend is' auf'm Platz«? -- 5. China wird zur Bedrohung des ehrlichen Fußballs -- 6. Aufkleber und Tags in der Fanszene -- 7. Gespräche jenseits des Spieltags -- 8. Das »blaue Herz« schlägt: Lebensrettung bei den Kickers -- 9. Die Kickers zwischen den Generationen -- 10. Freundschaften und Abschied vom Feld -- V Fans, Rituale und Vergemeinschaftung: Ein fansoziologischer Theorieblick -- Einleitung -- 1. Theoretische Perspektiven auf Fans -- 2. Zusammenfassung: Heterogene Fangruppen und Fans -- VI Religionstheorien und Fragen der Praktischen Theologie -- 1. Einleitung -- 2. Nach dem Ende der »Säkularisierungstheorie«: Wohin steuert Religion? -- 3. Aspekte der Veränderung von Religion -- Zusammenfassung -- Literatur- und Abbildungsverzeichnis

Faithful fasting : the Indian independence movement -- Invoking violence : the civil rights movement -- Sacred surety : divine mandate and violence in the anti-abortion movement -- The Pope and the Black Madonna : ritual, word, and movement in the Polish solidarity movement -- Imagining the impossible : the anti-apartheid movement of the 1980s and 1990s -- Prayers permeated : water protectors and the #NoDAPL movement -- Conclusion: A model for analyzing religious resources in social movements.

Starting from an ethnographic appraisal of the place of religious practices, and thereby returning to an approach more recently neglected, this book offers a detailed understanding of English everyday life. Three contemporary case studies - the life of a country church, an annual procession by the churches in a Bristol suburb, a range of linked "spiritualist" beliefs - disclose the complex patterns and compulsion of ordinary lives, including both moral and historical dimensions: the distribution of reputation and conflict, and the continuities of place and identity. At the same time, the approach revises previous accounts of English social life by giving a nuanced description of the construction of local lives in interaction with their wider setting. It demonstrates the creation of local particularity under an outside gaze, showing how actors create and cope with the forces of "modernity." In addition to the original ethnographic descriptions, the book also contributes to the history and theory of the study of complex societies

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Religion and Journalism: A Global View -- Part 1 The Oretical Reflections -- 2 Reporting Refugees: The Theory and Practice of Developing Journalistic Religious Literacy -- 3 Religion and Journalism Under Secularization -- 4 The Role and Function of Journalism for Religious Organizations -- 5 Gender, Religion and the Press in Scandinavia -- Part 2 Power and Authority

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION. Contraceptive Nationalism -- 1. AMERICA'S CONTRACEPTIVE MENTALITY -- 2. SATAN SELLERS -- 3. BELIEVE THE CHILDREN? -- 4. DARK RELIGION FOR DARK PEOPLE -- 5. THE WAR AT HOME -- 6. FROM SHORT CREEK TO ZION -- 7. THIS IS NOT ABOUT RELIGION -- CONCLUSION. Religion, Sex, Abuse -- EPILOGUE. Religion Trains Us Like Roses -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR

This is the first book that provides access to twelve Continental philosophers and the consequences of their thinking for the philosophy of religion. Basically, in the second half of the twentieth century, it has been treated from within the Anglo- American school of philosophy, which deals mainly with proofs and truths, and questions of faith. This approach is more concerned with human experience, and pays more attention to historical context and cultural influences. As such, it provides challenging questions about the way forward for philosophy of religion in the twenty-first century.

A ground-breaking theoretical engagement with intersecting areas of religion, media, and culture.Provides probing case studies which explore contemporary cultural and media phenomena.An outstanding reference source for students and scholars interested in how religious identities are developing against evolving digital and cultural landscapes