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A Most Uncommon Task: Arvind Sharma and the Construction of Hindu Missiology
In this essay, I offer a critical, appreciative assessment of Arvind Sharma’s vision of missionary Hinduism, as developed in his 2011 monograph Hinduis...
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Religion and Sustainable Development: The Role of the Zambia Interfaith Networking Group (ZINGO) in Contemporary Times
This chapter is on religion and development, focusing on interfaith networks and the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) on reducing inequalities (SDG...
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Why Church and State Should Be Kept Separate but Politics and Religion Should Not
In our modern era, society in general and political theorists in particular have increasingly moved toward a conception of the political community...
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African Women, Religion, Climate Change and Food Security in the Context of Pandemics
Climate change, food insecurity and pandemics threaten the health and wellbeing of many people, particularly women, in Africa. Both the United...
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Religio-Cultural Norms Constraining Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights for Widows in Zimbabwe
Widows in Zimbabwe go through a lot of stressful situations in their everyday life after the death of their husbands. In spite of the provision of...
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Teaching Religion in Bulgarian Public Schools
This chapter investigates the modes of teaching religion confessionally in Bulgarian public schools. The main challenge to the provision of these...
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Religion and Public Life: Continuing Debate
The chapter argues that religions are not to be confined to the realm of the private (as so many theories suggest), but have a critical public role...
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Religion and Education: A New Birth of Freedom in Unsettled Times
School choice programs have grown dramatically in the United States over the last twenty years. In some states, however, educational choice...
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Environmental Sustainability, Religion, and Localized Faith-Based Movements : A Case Study Examining an Urban–Rural Christian Community in Korea
This chapter investigates the relationships between environmental sustainability as a movement and practice with religious motivations and drivers....
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Zimbabwean Women’s Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights: Ethical and Moral Implications of the Proposed New Marriage Bill
There has been ongoing debate and controversy on the definition of marriage not only in Zimbabwe but the rest of the African continent and globally....
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Restoring Religion to the Land: Gender, Race, and Ecology in the Literature of Paulina Chiziane
This chapter explores select novels of Paulina Chiziane, Mozambique’s most celebrated woman writer, and argues for their relevance to such pressing...
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Sustainability Studies: Beyond the Denial of Religion and Theology as Resources—An Introduction
The devastation of the ecosphere is inextricably linked to unsustainable economic, ecological, societal, geopolitical, cultural, and ethical...
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State, Law, and Religion in Brazil: The Supreme Federal Court Case-Law
The objective of this chapter is to present to the interested public the main topics and cases discussed in the recent case-law of the Brazilian...
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Nonreligion, Changing Religious Landscapes and Living Well Together
In this chapter I explore two developments in law related to nonreligion: first, the transformation of legal discourse around ‘physician-assisted...
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Migration, Human Rights, and Obligations
In this chapter, Yuen offers an in-depth examination of the characteristics of the Catholic human rights theory. In spite of the problems of the...
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Theoretical Perspectives on Religion, Conflicts, and Peace
After the presentation of a model of religious leaders’ role in peacebuilding in previous sections, this part will situate the relationships between...
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The Spirit in Modern Black Theology and Religion
Buhring’s focus in this chapter is the work of three pioneers of the first-generation of black theology: James H. Cone, J. Deotis Roberts, and...
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Religion, Conflict Transformation, Peacebuilding, and Development in Ghana: The Role of the National Peace Council
The chapter analyses the genesis and activities of Ghana’s National Peace Council (NPC) and its contribution to peacebuilding and economic...
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Are the Poor Human Beings? Neoliberalism and Theology
The current economic-social inequality in the world is so great that even multilateral institutions, such as the IMF and World Bank, are concerned...
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Introduction
The commercialisation of religion here refers to some Pentecostal pastors’ commodification of the gospel for personal gain. This happens when...