Religion

Nature in Roman Catholic tradition
Religion

Nature in Roman Catholic tradition

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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

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Religious pluralism and religious participation

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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

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Religion and comparative politics

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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

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In Search of Rules for a Critical Study of Religion

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This article builds on critical engagements with a 2022 essay that appeared in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. At the centre of this essay was a concern with the influence of `Critical Religion' (CR) on the academic study of religion, in