Many religious people deny any conflict between religion and science, but nevertheless report less trust in science than non-religious people. We addr... [more]
As an indirect response to Galen Watts and Sharday Mosurinjohn's Can Critical Religion Play by Its Own Rules? this article aims to explicate what 'c... [more]
Not only does Ralph Ellison's writing reflect his background as a musician who played European classics and Southwestern blues-based jazz, and whose fiction reflect the aesthetics of these worlds, but also his work reveals a vital connection to religion.
This essay explores how and why Muslim Sierra Leoneans living and working in the Washington DC metropolitan area inscribe religious identity onto their work sites by means of a variety of Islamic commodities. These items, ranging from bumper stickers and
A significant minority of Westerners believe in reincarnation, even though they do not belong to religions that teach it What is the relationship of their belief to personal identity? In areas of the world where reincarnation is accepted, one can identify
A pastoral psychotherapist with a relational orientation offers an introduction to sandplay and describes how this tactile, symbolic modality can provide Opportunities for women to explore their Spirituality in the theraapeutic setting. The challenges and
The premise of this paper is that an individual Must have it clear sense of personal meaning to experience a productive and peaceful life and that the therapy process is not complete until each client has integrated a belief system that gives her a framew
The purpose of this study was to replicate and expand previous research examining the association between holy days and the timing of death. We analysed daily numbers of deaths of Jewish men and women aged 35 and above in Israel from 1983 to 1992, control
The work of Gonzalo de Berceo, a native of the Rioja region of Spain who lived in the 12th and 13th centuries, illustrates the reutilization of the classic symbols of the crown and the palm as heavenly awards in the afterlife. The author analyzes Berceo'
Objective: Religion has been shown to have a positive impact on well-being and to play an important role in coping with stressful life events. However, the buffering effect of religiosity on mental health, after a particularly stressful life event such as
Opththalmoi, or ship's eyes, were a common decoration adorning the bows of ancient Greek ships. Athenian naval records and archaeological finds from Piraeus attest to ophthalmoi taking the form of marble appliques on Greek warships of the Classical Perio
This article discusses several aspects of the history of religious policy in France, focusing on realities from the 16th to 20th centuries involving the ways by which the state deals with religion. The objective is to show that far from simply being overl
The Yezidis, speakers of a Kurdish dialect living mainly in northern Iraq, are distinguished from the (Muslim) Kurds and other neighboring communities by their religion, a syncretism of Islamic and Christian elements with local indigenous cults. They are
It is often suggested in contemporary anthropology that Western views of nature are fundamentally different from those in societies of nature, supposed to conceptualise the environment in non-dualistic terms. The author questions this view by discussing i
For more than a decade, sociologists of religion have been debating the answer to a basic question: What is the relationship between religious pluralism and religious vitality? The old wisdom was that the relationship was negative, that pluralism undermin
I first argue that religion partakes of the symbolic order of the nation-state and that contemporary nationalisms are suffused with the religious. I then suggest that religious nationalism calls into question the theoretical duality of the social and the
Although scholars tend to downplay the role of religion in political life, the vast majority of people in the world profess a strong allegiance to some spiritual faith. Secularization theory has long held that religion would become irrelevant, leading man