... religious interpretation from their own feminist critical perspective in a way that enhances their independent religious self and emphasizes a national-religious identity. The women’s statements open a window through which their religious agency can be viewed and understood in the Israeli hegemonic space...

... highlights existing hurdles in such approach where the decision-making involves conflicting interests concerning religion. children’s rights religious identity alternative care and adoption international human rights adjudication European Convention on Human Rights child-centred approach International...

... the effects, whereas Muslim identity had no moderating effect. opinion climate terror meta-stereotypes persuasive press inference reciprocal effects religious identity national identity Throughout the past two decades, Islamists such as Al Qaida, the so-called Islamic State, and other groupings...

... of the Association for the Sociology of Religion. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: [email protected] 2017 Abstract This article examines the negotiation of sexual and religious identities among gay and lesbian students on a Catholic university campus. We explore context-specific...

... or Islamic centers must be self-sufficient, supported by local populations. Islam American religion immigration place sacred space religious identity Just as, at one time, there was a debate about “Americanism” within Roman Catholicism, there are now people who would argue against the very idea...

... religious settings; (2) the cognitive processes involved in the development of religious identity; (3) the types of religious messages that are associated with congregational vitality and growth; (4) the goals and outcomes of spiritual growth (e.g., how emphasis on personal journeys of spiritual growth can...

... constitution was being corrupted by the colony’s connection to England. By the 1770s, Maryland’s Catholics were the colonists most prepared to accept the cultural and psychological implications of independence from England. They had been taking responsibility for their religious identity for generations...

...This introductory chapter sets the study in the broader context of changes in religion’s place in modern society, especially the shift from ascribed to achieved religious identity. It briefly reviews the Second Vatican Council as a response to societal modernization and the emergence of the Rite...

...This chapter examines the influence of male and female gender on religious identities, and explores aspects of the complex idea of ritual purity. It shows that the male-female divide entails many consequences, not only for family life, economics, and social organization but also for identity...

... cultural identity globalization international order international society Islam radical Islamism religious identity social movements sovereign equality Islam's place in the wider world has been subject to periodic and fierce controversy. In the mid‐nineteenth century, Palmerston, in a back‐handed...

..., at the center of the city would not be owned by any one tribe but would represent the development of an overarching religious identity composed of different tribes. ⁴² The founders of Marrakech built deliberately between and over tribal lines creating almost a haram, a forbidden...

...This chapter examines three memoirs describing how a parent's need to hide his or her religious identity led to a lifetime of secrets and secrecy: Mark Kurzem's The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood, Michael Skakun's On Burning Ground...

..., Bulgarians ended up with ecclesiastical nationalism which aimed to preserve their ethno-religious identity by establishing a national Orthodox Church at the expense of splitting from the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The chapter reveals the main stages, features and actors of the ethno-philetism debate...

... by the atheistic French thinker who was credited with its coining—Auguste Comte. The creation and acceptance of this new word made it possible to experience oneself and the world in new ways, to communicate new ethical concepts, and to create new moral and religious identities. This book explains how and why...

... life while highlighting the religious identity of Asian American Catholics lest it remain overlooked in religious studies scholarship. Ahlstrom Sydney Asian American Catholics assimilation Dolan Jay P Hoang Linh immigration Winthrop John Asian American s demographics of Alemany Joseph Sadoc...

...This chapter muses on the proper balance between love of one's own ethnic or religious identity and loyalty to the larger public American identity. It recognizes that the multiculturalism of today aims, at least in rhetoric, at something different—inclusion and success, not separation...

... compromising their religious identity. The Faith-Based and Community Initiative (FBCI) of the administration of President George W. Bush was based on the core legal principles of charitable choice. This chapter examines the faith-based initiative and its two goals: to increase the share of federal social...

... gathered significant force since 1994, reflect a desire for respectability and purity, but even more so a powerful attempt to find a religious identity that seems both intelligible and in tune with the culture of the larger South Africa society. The chapter considers how these church communities, among...