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Race -- chapter 1. What you should know about the history of race / Sylvester A. Johnson -- chapter 2. Religion and the racial status quo / Corey D. B. Walker -- chapter 3. Religion's challenge to racism / Paul Harvey -- chapter 4. Ongoing issues and concerns / Jennifer Harvey -- Gender -- chapter 5. What you should know about the history of gender / Monica R. Miller -- chapter 6. Religion and the gender status quo / Mary McClintock Fulkerson -- chapter 7. Religion's challenge to gender discrimination / Susan Abraham -- chapter 8. Ongoing issues and concerns / Michelle M. Lelwica -- Class -- chapter 9. What you should know about the history of class / Keri Day -- chapter 10. Religion and the class status quo / James W. Perkinson -- chapter 11. Religion's challenge to classism / Jason A. Springs -- chapter 12. Ongoing issues and concerns / Joerg Rieger -- Environment -- chapter 13. What you should know about the history of environmentalism / Anne Marie Dalton -- chapter 14. Religion and the human's relationship to the world / Roger S. Gottlieb -- chapter 15. Religious ethics of food and water / Christiana Z. Peppard -- chapter 16. Ongoing issues and concerns / Lois Ann Lorentzen -- Humans in the future -- chapter 17. Transhumanism and the study of religion / Clay Farris Naff -- chapter 18. Futurism and the study of religion / Laura Ammon.

chapter 1. Accessing the sacred through the five senses / Ori Z. Soltes -- chapter 2. Beauty and religion / Bryan S. Rennie -- chapter 3. The human figure in religious art / Diane Apostolos-Cappadona -- chapter 4. The communicative agency of religious architecture / Thomas Barrie -- chapter 5. Dance as religious studies / Angela Yarber -- chapter 6. The material religion of film / Sheila J. Nayar -- chapter 7. Music and sound as an entry point into religious studies / Jason C. Bivins -- chapter 8. Religion, evolving media, and distant suffering / Jolyon Mitchell, Joshua Ray -- chapter 9. Performing devotion as a mode of religious study / Jill Stevenson -- chapter 10. Photography and religion / Rachel McBride Lindsey -- chapter 11. Sacred place / Crispin Paine -- chapter 12. Relics and rituals / Diane Apostolos-Cappadona -- chapter 13. Objects of religious belief and practice / Leonard Norman Pimiano -- chapter 14. Beauty is the color og truth / Ronald Y. Nakasone -- chapter 15. Exhibiting the sacred / Rowena Loverance -- chapter 16. Exhibiting Christian art / Jennifer Sliwka -- chapter 17. Exhibiting outsider art / Jerry Cullum -- chapter 18. Reviewing the religious in art / Menachem Wecker.

A selection of articles from "Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion" that documents the pervasiveness of religion and demonstrates the complex ways faith remains important for societies all over the world.

Front Matter -- Copyright Page /Pål Repstad -- About the Authors /Pål Repstad -- Introduction /Pål Repstad -- Recent Developments in the Sociology of Religion: Theories and Approaches /Pål Repstad -- Religious Diversity: Sociological Issues and Perspectives /James A. Beckford -- From Theories of Secularization and Return of Religion to Religious Complexity /Inger Furseth -- Social Semiotics in the Study of Religion /Anne Løvland -- More Dialogue between Approaches: Everyday Religion and Political Religion /Pål Repstad -- Religious Practices in the Framework of Ash Scattering and Contact with the Dead /Ida Marie Høeg -- Methodological Challenges to the Study of Religious Peacebuilding /Tale Steen-Johnsen -- Normativity and Empirical Studies: Sociology of Religion in a Wider Context /Pål Repstad -- Sociology of Religion in Contexts: Institutional Constraints and Personal Beliefs /Pål Repstad -- Empirically Informed Theology /Jan-Olav Henriksen -- Empirically Informed Ethics /Paul Leer-Salvesen -- Hell, Perdition and Feelgood /Pål Repstad -- Research Notes from Young Norwegian Sociologists of Religion /Pål Repstad -- Camping with God and Goffman /Irene Trysnes -- From Sin to a Gift from God /Nils Martinius Justvik -- Street Religion: Faith among Romanian Beggars /Tomas Rasmussen -- A Pilgrimage in the Mountains /Kristina Røynås Grundetjern and Pål Repstad -- Preaching at Funerals /Bjarte Leer-Helgesen -- Back Matter -- Name and Subject Index /Pål Repstad.

The process of Globalisation has subjected cultures, religions and societies or communities of the world to fundamental changes, which are primarily characterised and conditioned by new communication technologies, migration, worldwide exchange of goods and capital. This development has led to the rise of plural societies, which not only mean chances and opportunities but also a potential of threat for the future of humanity. Subsequent to this development this international conference addresses the question of how living together in a global age could succeed and be fruitful. Im Zuge des Globalisierungsprozesses befinden sich alle Kulturen, Religionen und damit alle Gesellschaften der Welt in einem grundlegenden Wandel, der vor allem durch neue Kommunikationstechnologien, Migration, weltweiten Austausch von Kapital und Gütern bedingt ist. Diese Entwicklung hat zur Entstehung pluraler Gesellschaften geführt, die nicht nur eine Chance, sondern auch ein Bedrohungspotenzial für die Zukunft der Menschheit bedeutet. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt sich für die Tagung die Frage, wie ein Zusammenleben der Menschen in einer zunehmend multireligiösen und multikulturellen Welt gelingen kann

The liberal enlightenment as well as the more radical left have both traditionally opposed religion as a reactionary force in politics, a view culminating in an identification of the politics of religion as fundamentalist theocracy. But recently a number of thinkers-Agamben, Badiou, Tabues and in particular Simon Critchley-have begun to explore a more productive engagement of the religious and the political in which religion features as a possible or even necessary form of human emancipation. The papers in this collection, deriving from a workshop held on and with Simon Critchley at the University of Texas at San Antonio in February 2010, take up the ways in which religion's encounter with politics transforms not only politics but also religion itself, molding it into various religions of politics, including not just heretical religious metaphysics, but also what Critchley describes as non-metaphysical religion, the faith of the faithless. Starting from Critchley's own genealogy of Pauline faith, the articles in this collection explore and defend some of the religions of politics and their implications. Costica Bradatan teases out the implications of Critchley's substitution of humor for tragedy as the vehicle for the minimal self-distancing required for any politics. Jill Stauffer compares Critchley's non-metaphysical religiosity with Charles Taylor's account of Christianity. Alistair Welchman unpacks the political theology of the border in terms of god's timeless act of creation. Anne O'Byrne explores the subtle dialectic between mores and morality in Rousseau's political ethics. Roland Champagne sees a kind non-metaphysical religion in Arendt's category of the political pariah. Davide Panagia presents Critchley's ethics of exposure as the basis for a non-metaphysical political bond. Philip Quadrio wonders about the political ramifications of Critchley's own 'mystical anarchism' and Tina Chanter re-reads the primal site in the Western tradition at which the political and the religious intersect, the Antigone story, side-stepping philosophical interpretations of the story (dominated by Hegel's reading) by means of a series of post-colonial re-imaginings of the play. The collection concludes with an interview with Simon Critchley taking up the themes of the workshop in the light of more recent political events: the Arab Spring and the rise and fall of the Occupy movement. Alistair Welchman is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at San Antonio who is interested in questions of naturalism and materialism, especially but not exclusively in relation to French and German philosophy since Kant. In addition he works as a translator, mostly of Schopenhauer's World as Will and Representation (for Cambridge) but also of Salomon Maimon's Essay on Transcendental Philosophy (Continuum) and has a growing interest in political questions stemming from his situation on the US-Mexico border.

From the local to the global level, religion is - more than ever - an important and hotly debated part of modern life in the twenty-first century.From silver rings to ringtones and from clubs to headscarves, we often find the cultural role and discussion of religion in unexpected ways.Now in its second edition, Religion: The Basics remains the best introduction to religion and contemporary culture available. The new edition has been fully revised and updated, and includes new discussions of:the study of religion and culture in the twenty-first centurytexts, films and ritualscognitive approache