... explain why, as a matter of moral principle, we ought to accord special legal and moral treatment to religious practices. The answer in this book is: not because of anything that has to do with it being religion as such. Canada Establishment Clause U S Free Exercise Clause U S Germany United States...

...This book takes a new approach to the study of Roman elites' religious practices and beliefs, using current theories in psychology, sociology, and anthropology, as well as cultural and literary studies. The book focuses on what the elites of the Middle Republic (ca. 250–ca. 100 BCE) actually did...

... deemed sacred. The chapter explains how the arguments on feelings warrant critical scrutiny in relation to religious practices, emphasizing that some arguments may not even include powerful feelings at all. It describes what conditions do certain religious practices do to prompt different kinds...

...This introductory chapter discusses the cultural exchange between Jews and Christians in the High and Late Middle Ages. Members of each group contributed to the other's culture, even to their religious practices. Jews would often have in their possession artistic objects from the surrounding...

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...This chapter examines questions of traditional, ancestral gods as well as religious practices and the acceptance or rejection of new foreign deities and rituals in the Middle Roman Republic. In particular, it shows how disparate behaviors domi militiaeque reveal the religious...

... research that emphasizes how religious practices make use of and bear the imprint of the situations in which they occur. Bender Courtney Brazilian Pentecostals Brazilian prisoners Johnson Andrew pentecostalism prisoners religious practice situations Bourdieu Pierre Burawoy Michael Collins Randall...

...This chapter considers how religious practices had acquired a radical visage, an anticolonial posture, at those moments when they offered a viable means of articulating a conflict, a lingua franca within which both colonizer and colonized might revisit the terms of their relationship...

.... It also considers the situation of the city of Rome itself in times of military crisis and anarchy. The chapter first provides an overview of traditional interpretations and newer developments in the study of Roman imperialism before discussing the elite's religious practices and beliefs during military...

... were, affected Native people strategically engaged religious freedom discourse to protect those threatened practices that they increasingly argued were their “religions” and protected under religious liberty. Even as the government and missionary sought to curb Native religious practices thought...

... guides their intuitions about and evaluations of the ritual actions that they see performed. Meanwhile, the third proposal claims that some practical and doxastic representations, including beliefs and deontic beliefs, are constitutive of religious practices and their effects. The chapter begins...

...This chapter addresses the role of bodies, which has been the focus of increasing interest in studies of religion. It explains how bodies are involved in religious practices conducted by people in concrete situations. It analyzes the extent and varied ways bodies are involved in religion...