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Identity, Prejudice, and Mysticism: Exploring Sustainable Narratives of Peace Across Religious Borders
This chapter contests that “mystics” provide common ground for harmonious coexistence. Those identified as “mystics” across Buddhist, Christian, and...
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African Traditional Religion and Sustainability: The New Indigenous Religious Movements
The practice of African Traditional Religion (ATR) has faced myriad of challenges on the continent, Africa. These problems include lack of scripture...
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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...
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Conflicting Religious Identities: The Political Turn
Today we are assisting at religious conflicts, especially in the Global South, but increasingly also in the North due to migration and Islamophobia....
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Are Religious People the Better Democratic Citizens?
This research report asks whether religious people differ significantly from non-religious people when it comes to attitudes towards democracy and...
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Novel Ways of Being Religious
This chapter goes into the postmodern culture which accompanies the process of globalization—both in the Global North and in the Global South, and...
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Authority and Change: The Role of Authority in the Anglican Communion and the Lutheran World Federation
This article explores the relationship between change and authority and discusses the role of authority when churches and global ecclesial communions...
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Globalization and New Religious Movements
After clarifications of certain concepts like, religious movements, sects, cults, and boundaries, the chapter studies how and under what social and...
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African Religion and Islam in Contemporary Religious Space
Africans value religion greatly for religion permeates all aspects of their lives. To be is to be religious. Africans do not envisage any meaningful...
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Celebrating Diversity in the Latvian Religious Education Curriculum
Religious encounters are one of the most debated issues in Europe. Tools for dealing with sensitive, controversial religious issues still remain...
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Religious Freedom: Beyond the Liberal Paradigm
The chapter views the question of religious freedom in the South, as a much larger issue than that of a human right or a matter of conscience. In...
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Translation of the Bible, Other Religious Literature, and Indigenous Religious Texts: China
Written texts have always played a key role in advancing the Christian doctrine. Since the inception of Christianity, a set of texts has been...
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The Challenges of Religious Education at Schools in Multi-religious Societies: The Case of Albania
This chapter presents the main challenges of teaching religion at schools in multi-religious societies through considering the case of Albania. For...
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Islam in Kurdistan: Religious Communities and Their Practices in Contemporary Northern Iraq
“Kurdish Islam” – what is that? The adjective is derived from a noun that names a people and their languages living in Eastern Anatolia, Northeastern...
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NPC Prophets and Religious Cult in South Africa
In this chapter, I discuss the relationship between some religious extremism and cultism in South Africa. The prophets have been engaged in some...
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Coming to Grips with Rationality
This chapter, similar to Chap. 6 , explores a pathway of incorporating Shiism adopted by converts. The...
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R. Shimon Shkop: Religious Commands and Legal Obligations
This chapter analyzes the world of R. Shimon Shkop, one of the most significant talmudic commentators of the early twentieth century. Halakhic...
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Islamic Movement, Mobilization, and Authority
This chapter analyzes the formation of associations by Turkish Islamic communities. Islamic mobilization relies on traditional, charismatic, and...
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The Place of Nonreligion in Theology and Religious Studies: Issues and Insights from Empirical Research with Scholars of Religion
This chapter explores two current issues in the academic study of religion: the relation between theology and religious studies and the relation...
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Changing Ethical Discourses and Religious Identities
This chapter argues that religions under conditions of globalization need to revise their practice of drawing moral conclusions from universalistic...