Sociology of Religion

Priestly Power and Probity on the Battlefield: Examining the Politico-Religious Origins of the Just War Doctrine

by David Drissel

Peut-on danser pour Dieu ? Le pentecôtisme polynésien entre rigorisme et "réveil culturel"

by Yannick Fer

Actes du colloque « Religions populaires et nouveaux syncrétismes », Département d’ethnologie de l’Université de la Réunion, Surya éd., La Réunion. Pages 165-174.

On the non-evolution of atheism and the importance of definitions and data

by Jonathan Lanman

Published in Religion, Brain, and Behavior (2012)

Atheist Spirituality: A Follow-on from New Atheism?

by Teemu Taira

2012. Tore Ahlbäck (ed.) Post-Secular Religious Practices. Turku: Donner institute for Religious and Cultural History, 388-404.

Religious Practice among Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims of Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral studying in Universities of Lahore

by Zahir Shah

Submitted as an academic work, in Spring 2011, part of Social Research Course, department of Sociology, FCCU Lahore with Dr. Grace Clark

Generally, religious practice of college/ university students decline during their college years. Using the survey... more Generally, religious practice of college/ university students decline during their college years. Using the survey method the religious practice based on prayer, attendance and service, for the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslim university students in Lahore belonging to Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral was analyzed. I found out that the religious practice did not decline because of relatively independent life and study. Rather varying results for the attendance in terms of occasions affected their participation in services and thus invites an insightful study for the reasons of the changed pattern of attendance.

The Representation of Religiosity in the Czech Televisions

by Jan Motal

published in Sacra, 2010, 2, p. 32 - 53. ISSN 1214-5351.

The article aims to analyze four periodic religious programmes in the czech television broadcasting. Results of the... more The article aims to analyze four periodic religious programmes in the czech television broadcasting. Results of the analyses are interpreted as the dichotomy in forms of religiosity representation in the broadcasting: in the case of the public service institution (Czech television) and the community
oriented television (TV Noe) the religiosity is represented explicitly, in the commercial media implicitly. The profit-oriented broadcasters understand the religious programmes as entertaining shows, Czech television aims to educate
and provides explanation, TV Noe is evangelistic. The thesis describes particular forms of religiosity in the broadcasting, focusing on the „traditional“ interpretation of the religion in the case of the Czech television and TV Noe and the alternative religiosity presented in the shows of the profit-oriented broadcasters.

Imagined communion: virtual nationality and virtuous nations

by Paul Sullins

Sociology: A Catholic Critique

by Paul Sullins

Centralization of Authority in Protestant Denominations: An Organizational Classification

by Paul Sullins

The Islamic Revival and Women's Political Subjectivity in Indonesia

by Rachel Rinaldo

Women's Studies International Forum, Volume 33, Issue 4, pp. 422-431 (2010).

The global Islamic revival is producing new kinds of Muslim political subjectivities. But what does the revitalization... more The global Islamic revival is producing new kinds of Muslim political subjectivities. But what does the revitalization of religion in the public sphere mean for women? This article examines how Islamic piety can be a resource for Muslim women's political mobilization in Indonesia. I argue that the redefinition of Islamic piety as public practice helps to promote women's participation in the Indonesian public sphere. While some activists use Islamic discourses to contest gender inequality, others seek to contribute to the Islamization of Indonesia. Both visions are influenced by the conviction that piety is a public matter, but they reveal deep divisions among Muslims about how the concepts of public and private should be understood. I suggest that the new public piety, influenced by the Islamic revival and neoliberalism, has empowered many women activists, but the political reforms they seek to achieve are diverse and not necessarily egalitarian.

What is Wrong With Pagan Studies?

by Markus Altena Davidsen

”What is Wrong with Pagan Studies?, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 24(2), 183-199.

Review of Pizza Murphy & James Lewis (eds.), Handbook of Contemporary Paganism, in the series Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion 2, Leiden & Boston: Brill.

Published May 2012.

The Globalization of Chinese Buddhism: Clergy and Devotee Networks in the Twentieth Century

by David Wank

Coauthored with Yoshiko Ashiwa. International Journal of Asian Studies, v.2, n.2 (2005): 217-237.

The Politics of a Reviving Buddhist Temple: State, Association, and Religion in Southeast China

by David Wank

Coauthored with Yoshiko Ashiwa. Journal of Asian Studies. V. 65, n. 2 (2006): 337-359.

Institutionalizing Modern "Religion" in China's Buddhism: Political Phases of a Local Revival

by David Wank

In Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China. Coedited with Yoshiko Ashiwa, pp. 126-150. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009.
Final preproduction draft

Making Religion, Making the State in Modern China: An Introductory Essay

by David Wank

Co-authored with Yoshiko Ashiwa. In Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China. Coedited with Yoshiko Ashiwa, pp. 1-21. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009.
Final preproduction draft

"Ako je došao silom, on ne ostaje": narativi o konverziji u neoprotestantskim zajednicama // "If he came by force, he would not stay": narratives on conversion in Romanian neo-Protestant communities

by Aleksandra Djurić-Milovanović

Interkulturalnost, no. 3, 2012

Reasons to Ban? The Anti-Burqa Movement in Western Europe

by Prakash Shah

This MMG Working Paper 12-09 (Göttingen: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity) is Co-authored with Ralph Grillo, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex. Publications include: Pluralism and the Politics of Difference: State, Culture, and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective, Clarendon Press (1998); editor of The Family in Question: Immigrant and Ethnic Minorities in Multicultural Europe, Amsterdam University Press (2008); co-editor of Legal Practice and Cultural Diversity, Ashgate (2009). Ralph Grillo is a member of the Advisory Group of the Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity at Göttingen.

During the 2000s, the dress of Muslim women in Muslim-minority countries in Europe and elsewhere became increasingly a... more During the 2000s, the dress of Muslim women in Muslim-minority countries in Europe and elsewhere became increasingly a matter for debate and, in several instances, the subject of legislation. In France, a ban on the wearing of the headscarf
in places of education (2004) was followed in 2010 by the law criminalizing the wearing of the face-veil (usually but inaccurately referred to as the ‘burqa’) in public space. Other countries have enacted similar legislation. Muslim women’s dress has historically been a controversial matter in Muslim-majority countries, too, most recently in North Africa following the Arab Spring, but the present paper concentrates on the movement against face-veiling in Western Europe, documenting what has been happening and analysing the arguments proposed to justify criminalizing this type of garment. In doing so, the paper explores the implications for our understanding of contemporary (ethnically and religiously) diverse societies and their governance.
Is anti-veiling legislation a protest against what is interpreted as an Islamic practice unacceptable in liberal democracies, a sign of a wider discomfort with non-European otherness, or an expression of an underlying racism articulated in cultural terms?
Whatever the reason, is criminalization an appropriate response? An Appendix notes some topics for further research.

A language for the Catholic Church in Malta

by Adrian Gellel

Gellel, A., & Sultana, M. (2008). A language for the Catholic Church in Malta. Melita Theologica, 59(2), 21-36.

Secularization and the multidimensional concept of religiosity

by Raul Tormos

presented at the conference of the International Sociological Association, Goteborg, 2010.

Baha’i Meets Globalisation: A New Synergy?

by Sen McGlinn

In Margit Warburg, Annika Hvithamar and Morten Warmind (eds), Baha’i and Globalisation, Aarhus University Press, 2005.

When Weber identified the synergy (wahlverwandtschaft) between Protestantism and the rationalisation of social control... more When Weber identified the synergy (wahlverwandtschaft) between Protestantism and the rationalisation of social control and production in “modern” societies, both processes could be analysed in retrospect. This paper will attempt, more tentatively, to draw attention to the potential “fit” between the dynamics of globalisation and the Baha’i Faith.