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Scholars have made urban mothers living in poverty a focus of their research for decades. These women's lives can be difficult as they go about searching for housing and decent jobs and struggling to care for their children while surviving on welfare or working at low-wage service jobs and sometimes facing physical or mental health problems. But until now little attention has been paid to an important force in these women's lives: religion. Based on in-depth interviews with women and pastors, Susan Crawford Sullivan presents poor mothers' often overlooked views. Recruited from a variety of soc

Introduction to Special Section "The Role of Religion in the Ukrainian Political Landscape"

Preliminary Material /F. Lim -- Chapter One. Charismatic Technology /Francis Khek Gee Lim -- Chapter Two. Technologies, Religion And Social Mediation /Bryan S. Turner -- Chapter Three. The Fate Of God In The Age Of Technology /Anton Sevilla -- Chapter Four. A Message From Ashabirin: High Technology And Political Islam In Indonesia /Sulfikar Amir -- Chapter Five. Power Pointing Islam: Form And Spiritual Reform In Reformasi Indonesia /Daromir Rudnyckyj -- Chapter Six. A Spectacle Of Worship: Technology, Modernity And The Rise Of The Christian Megachurch /Joseph Nathan Cruz -- Chapter Seven. The \'Short-Waved Faith\': Christian Broadcasting And Protestant Conversion Of The Hmong In Vietnam /Ngo Thi Thanh Tam -- Chapter Eight. Shopping For God: Media And Religion In Singapore /Robin Chee Ming Feng and James Chen -- Chapter Nine. The New Face Of Global Evangelism: Virtualizing Spiritual Experience /Jayeel Serrano Cornelio -- Chapter Ten. Religious Ecology On The Internet: A Case Study Of Tibetan Buddhism /Low Yuen Wei -- Index /F. Lim.

In Understanding Religion through Artificial Intelligence, Justin E. Lane looks at the reasons why humans feel they are part of a religious group, despite often being removed from other group members by vast distances or multiple generations. To achieve this, Lane offers a new perspective that integrates religious studies with psychology, anthropology, and data science, as well as with research at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence (AI).After providing a critical analysis of approaches to religion and social cohesion, Lane proposes a new model for religious studies, which he calls the "Information Identity System." This model focuses on the idea of conceptual ties: links between an individual's self-concept and the ancient beliefs of their religious group. Lane explores this idea through real-world examples, ranging from the rise in global Pentecostalism, to religious extremism and self-radicalization, to the effect of 9/11 on sermons. Lane uses this lens to show how we can understand religion and culture today, and how we can better contextualize the changes we see in the social world around us

In addressing the topic assigned to me -- "Interreligious Dialogue, the Environment, and Power" -- I have decided to focus on the first and the last elements: Dialogue and Power. More precisely, I would like to reflect on how the question of "power" can serve as the mediating link between religion and dialogue. Many people, especially academicians, would regard such a proposal with great suspicion, if not downright opposition. For them, the vital relationship between religion and power is the problem. Precisely because religion is such a powerful force in the lives of people, precisely because the powerful can make such exploitative and violent use of religion -- precisely for such reasons many voices today are calling for a moratorium on interreligious dialogue; or they are calling for the exclusion of religion from all political or intercultural discussions. I want to take these reservations or objections as seriously as I can. I begin, therefore with some questions.

This article tries to organize and ilustrate Tocqueville's ideas about the role that religion plays in a democratic society. Among these ideas the one that promotes a tolerant and non-dogmatic cultivation of religion is the most outstanding. According to it religion has through civil society a positive influence on the spirit of democratic freedom. ; Este artículo trata de ordenar e ilustrar las ideas de A. de Tocqueville sobre el papel de la religión en la sociedad democrática. Entre ellas, se destaca la que sostiene que el cultivo tolerante y desdogmatizado de la religión ejerce, desde el espacio de la sociedad civil, un influjo beneficioso sobre el espíritu de la libertad democrática.