...Globalization has affected indigenous peoples and their traditional cultures in significant ways. Throughout the world, some 190 million people are identified by religious cultures that are variously known as “native,” “indigenous,” “local,” and “ethnic” religions. These are the native people...

... of Eastern and Western religious cultures for nearly seven decades. An introduction analyzes Suzuki's frequent encounters with texts and practitioners of many religions, considers how events in Suzuki's lifetime affected his interpretations of Christianity, Shinto, and other traditions, and demonstrates...

.... It contends that though popular religious cultures in Michoacán were socially constructed, it did not follow that they were empty, merely instrumental, constructs. It argues that popular groups in the 1920s created multi-layered identities and reshaped not only their political ideas but also their religious...

... transnational Islamic cultures in places such as Old Delhi. The chapter argues that their efforts, although contested by many other Muslims in Old Delhi, not only make place for Muslims in India today but also require one to understand Muslim subjectivity, and indeed religious cultures in India, through...

... that encompassed many cultural constructions and developed a rich and diverse set of religious cultures. It recounts how dozens of Jewish sites across the grid emerged and were created both by individual users and by offline institutions that established SL presences. Boellstorff Tom online groups Second Life...

... Christians and Muslims in the late medieval eastern Mediterranean, the chapters discuss and analyse the interaction between these religious cultures and trace processes of change and development within the individual societies. An introduction provides a broad geopolitical context to the contributions...

... the ideology of race eclipsed class in the 1950s and 1960s, and in so doing replaced the class-conscious with the race-conscious in religious cultures throughout the city....

...This chapter focuses on the application of the secularisation paradigm, which attributes the decline of religion in Western Europe to modernisation, in the non-Western world. More specifically, it examines salient changes in the religious cultures of various developing countries in Central...

... their religion and culture. The folk tales and notions about Eliahu Hanabi and his propitiation in the Malida rite are unique to the Bene Israel. The Eliahu Hanabi/Malida complex is an outstanding example of how great religious cultures interact in the performance of rituals. Bene Israel...

...This chapter considers the secular categories used today for understanding or misunderstanding religion across cultures. It first discusses the disputes that arise when Western scholars try to make sense out of religious cultures in non-Western societies, and particularly when it comes to defining...

... religious choice contraception tradition fragmentation of MacIntyre Alisdair Simmel Georg Weber Max Hervieu Léger Danièle virtue Moral polarization among Catholics Local religious cultures Fragmentation of tradition Institutional vitality Fragmentary Catholicisms Dissociation my goal...

... with religious cultures, and equating religious and ethnic identities. Additionally, the organizing category tends to privilege some particular tradition as representative of or the essence of Buddhism in a specific nation-state, marking that tradition as uniquely authoritative. More broadly, research...

... with guilt and wrestled with a heavy conscience. However, these feelings produced no outpouring of self-criticism or self-examination, no pained inner reckoning with their deepest beliefs. The chapter examines the differences in assuming martyrdom between these two religious cultures. Almohads Ben Sasson...

.... These are: religious cultures; a culture of solidarity; and cosmopolitan citizenship. It does so in the light of cultural context and with the intention to draw attention to describing real-world phenomena and mapping the global legal landscape. The chapter further suggests that comparison can help both...