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With this paper, we intend to understand what theoretical and empirical strategies allow us to measure the centrality and intensity of traditional religious meanings, as well as its more plural and diffuse modern expressions, in the individuals' life, in the first decade and a half of the twenty-first century. For that purpose, we offer a conceptualization and measurement model of religion - an index of religiosity - that we consider being effective and adequate to describe and measure its manifold contemporary expressions and dimensions. In order to build our index, we drew on some of the existing patterns of measurement, namely Huber & Huber's work, and on three specific statistical databases: the European Values Survey (1999-2008), the European Social Survey (2002-2014), and the World Christian Database (2015). To go beyond the theoretical constructs and the standardization of a religiosity index, we analyze and measure religion in a specific group of European countries and we compare the various levels of religiosity among them.

Although generally considered a tolerant or even an ultra-pacifistic religion,
contemporary Buddhism is far from being free from internal political-religious tensions.
The present article sketches three conflicts: the first is located within the Kagyüpaline
where two sub-currents argue about the legitimacy of the spiritual leader of the
school; the second refers to the controversy over Dorje Shugden, a protective deity whose veneration was declared dangerous by the Dalai Lama and other leaders of the Guelugpa-school in opposition to the defenders of this religious practice; the third one is the dispute over Soka Gakkai whose status as a modern representative of Nichiren Buddhism is questioned by other Japanese Buddhist groups. After having laid out the basic characteristics of the three conflicts the article deals with their impact on contemporary Brazilian Buddhism.

Efeitos, simbolos e crenças : considerações para um começo de conversa / Fátima Tavares e Francesca Bassi -- Eficácia simbólica : dilemas teóricos e desafios etnográficos / Sônia Weidner Maluf -- Para um modelo antropológico da prática psicoterapêutica / Michael Houseman -- O modelo coreográfico / François Laplantine -- Do que estamos falando? : eficácia simbólica, metáforas e o "espaço entre" / Octavio Bonet -- "Incorporar" os deuses : dispositivos pragmáticos do transe de possessão religiosa no culto Xangô de Recife (primeiras pistas) / Arnaud Halloy -- Negociar com os espíritos tromba em Mayotte : retorno ao "teatro vivido" da possessão / Bertrand Hell -- Renascido para a santidade : corporalidade, doenças, curas e milagres em Itaparica / Carlos Caroso e Carlo Castaldi -- As ojerizas do Povo-de-Santo : a eficácia das quizilas / Francesca Bassi -- A crise da "eficácia simbólica" enquanto padrão interpretativo da terapia e cura no espiritismo kardecista brasileiro : indeterminação e banalização / Marcelo Ayres Camurça -- Música e possessão : para além da eficácia simbólica? / Xavier Vatin -- Experiência religiosa e agenciamentos eficazes / Fátima Tavares -- Emoção e moralidade em grupos de gestante / Claudia Barcellos Rezende -- Invertendo a adesão, desdobrando o envolvimento : envelhecimento, sáude mental e o cuidado oferecido ao paciente confiante / Annette Leibing -- Morte e produção de sentidos / Rachel Aisengart Menezes -- Sangue do meu sangue : contrastando as práticas do serviço de saúde e as lógicas conjugais em situações de sorodiscordância para HIV/aids / Mónica Franch e Artur Perrusi

Radical pan-Islamism is a serious threat to universal secularism, the central norm of international order since the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. International secularism rests on two principles: firstly, the organization of religion within states is subject to their sovereignty & not to supranational or transnational revolutionary movements, & secondly, religion must not determine the foreign policies & the alliances of the state. The resurgence of pan-Islamic radicalism since September 11, 2001 as a central issue in world politics challenges both principles. Adapted from the source document.