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Rawls: Religious Forms and Public Reason
This chapter examines why religious (and nonreligious) forms of discourse matter to John Rawls’s concept of public reason. I argue that Jürgen...
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Religious and Cultural Drivers of the Feminization of Food Insecurity in South Africa: Contextualizing Ruth
Research reveals that urban manifestations of food insecurity in South Africa are rising at a rapid rate. The locus of poverty and food insecurity is...
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Pope John Paul II on Church, State, and the Ground of Religious Freedom
John Paul II devoted much of the time and energy of his papacy (1978–2005), 27 years long, to addressing practical issues in concrete situations...
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Christian Communities and Religious Movements in Roman Africa
This chapter presents an outline of the history of Christianity in the Maghreb during “long late antiquity,” roughly 180–700 CE. In examining this...
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Religious Fanaticism
Some belief systems seem to corroborate a direct causation of convictions by basic cognitive modules: religious fanaticism, among others fits into...
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Ethnic and Political Conflicts Resolution in Burundi: The Contribution of Religious Organisations
Far from being ‘ethnic groups’ as is the case in several African countries, the Hutu, Tutsi, Twa and Ganwa in Burundi should constitute one and the...
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Corporate Religious Liberty After Hobby Lobby
Corporations and other business entities, like limited partnerships and limited liability companies, are (legal) persons. Sometimes, a reference is...
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Religious Leaders: Priests/Priestesses, Medicine Professionals, and Kings
Religious institutions, like other institutions in Africa, have been facing the problem of leadership. This situation has often manifested in all...
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Anti-religious Education or Preventing Religious Extremism?—An Examination of the Re-education Camps in the Uyghur Region of China
It is estimated that between one and three million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims have been held involuntarily in so-called “Education and...
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We Don’t Need the Guru: Shambhala Facebook Group and (Re)Creating Vajrayāna Buddhism
The Shambhala Facebook group created a space for individuals to reimagine their religious teachings and practices without the Tibetan Tantric...
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Dark Webs: Tantra, Black Magic, and Cyberspace
This article examines the changing nature of Tantra in the digital era by focusing on three online tāntrik practitioners from Assam. The region of...
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Religious Authority in the Mishnah: Social Science Perspectives on the Emerging Role of Scholars
The systematic social constructions of societies include an analysis of authority/power within the community to identify the basics of social...
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Like a Bee to Nectar: Abhinavagupta’s Poetics of Religious Formation
Through a study of Abhinavagupta’s deployment of the metaphor of a bee in search of nectar, this article reconstructs a model of religious education...
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Seeking a Solution to the Problematic of Religious Othering in Theory and Action: From the First Crusade to Hizmet and Seeds of Peace
Charismatic and authoritative individuals can have and have had enormous impact on directing sometimes large groups of followers toward war—or toward...
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Religious Fundamentalism as a Challenge for (Inter-)religious Education
Due to media coverage and political instrumentalization, religion is increasingly perceived in terms of fundamentalist tendencies. In fact, more and...
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Is a Guru as Good as God? A Vedāntic Perspective
Within Hindu religious contexts, a guru plays a crucial soteriological role, and is sometimes viewed as being as good as God. Questions of a guru’s...
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The Piety of Health: The Making of Health in Islamic Religious Narratives
The question of health and disease is ubiquitous in classical Islamic religious writings. Motivated in part by the prophet’s history of illness,...
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Changes in Conscience Clauses and the Effect on Religious Affiliated Hospitals and Health Care Practitioners
Conscience clauses are those laws and regulations enacted by federal and state governments to protect health care providers from participating in...
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Christian Communities and Religious Movements in Ethiopia and Nubia
African Christians and churches have always figured prominently in matters of historical theology. However, the theological traditions of Nubia and...