The Sociology of Shari’a
Case Studies from Around the World
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Got sick of surveys or lack of social capital? An investigation on the effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on institutional surveying
The use of surveys to better understand students’ experiences and teaching quality in higher education has a long history of implementation and critical review. Although research on student feedback surveys ha...
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Real Life Superheroes (RLSH) and Human Potential Ethic
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Introduction: Legal Pluralism and Shari’a
This introduction situates the book in the current field of research and aims to find some generalizations out of the diversity of legal pluralist practices from around the world.
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Shari’a and Multiple Modernities in Western Countries: Toward a Multi-faith Pragmatic Modern Approach Rather Than a Legal Pluralist One?
The aim of this chapter is to situate the debate on legal pluralism and Shari’a within Eisenstadt’s multiple modernity thesis, and to argue that, to move the matter further, we should work towards a new multi-fai...
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Open AccessRamadan: devotion, compassion, and purification in Sydney
While Ramadan in Western societies has been studied extensively in relation to health issues, no research to date has explored its representation through social scientific lenses. This article uses the Greater...
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Conclusion
From different social-scientific perspectives the chapters of this book illustrate that various answers to the inquiry into what kind of meanings the practice of exorcism retains in modern societies can be pro...
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Confidence in Society, Exorcism, and Paranormal Practices: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Spirituality
This chapter examines the role of spirituality in the relationship between confidence in Australian society and paranormal outcomes involving belief in demons and the practice of exorcism among different relig...
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Introduction
This chapter introduces this edited book as a study of exorcism within a social-scientific perspective in Western societies. Applying the sociological work of de Certeau, and the anthropological perspective of...
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Open AccessRelational spirituality and quality of life 2007 to 2017: an integrative research review
Despite the increasing number of evidence-based research on relational spirituality (RS) and quality of life (QoL) in medical-health research, little is known about the links between RS and QoL outcomes and th...
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The Over-policing, and Decriminalizing, of the Devil
As part of an elective affinity, the number of professional exorcists has increased over the years, and this chapter claims that as more experts are pointing out that the devil is among us, more people are bel...
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Conclusions: A Global Compassionate Tax for the i-Society
This chapter provides a summary of the arguments presented in the book. It then proposes the creation of a global compassionate tax, that is, a tax on non-charitable dealings by religious organizations. Since ...
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Revising Religious Tax Exemption
This chapter reviews the history and literature on religion and taxes. It discusses recent surveys of the not-for-profit sector and contention over the definition of religion for tax purposes. Since religion h...
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Religions Within Neoliberalism
This chapter addresses how religions, whether or not their adherents want it to be so, are strongly affected by neoliberalism. It concentrates on how religions face new inequalities, exploring the work of fait...
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There Is No Such Thing as a Religion
This chapter questions our past ways of understanding religion and suggests that in the contemporary world, our sociological understanding of religion needs to change and adapt to reflect recent changes. The c...
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The Sociology of Exorcism
This chapter gives an account of a sociological understanding of what exorcism is. Using functional (what religion does for people and/or community) and substantive (what religion is for people and/or communit...
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Ritzer (2): Standardization and Branding
This chapter continues Chap. 8’s aggiornamento of the key theories of Ritzer, which provided an explication of capitalism at the end of the twentieth century, adap...
