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Israelization and Lived Religion: Conflicting Accounts of Contemporary Judaism
The article begins with an analysis of Yossi Shain, Ha-Me’ah ha-Yisraelit ve-ha-Yisraelizaziyah shel ha-Yahadut ( The Israeli Century and the...
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The Role of Religion, Wealth, and Livelihoods in the Hunting Practices of Urban and Rural Inhabitants in Western Amazonia
Hunting by rural and urban populations is essential for securing access to protein and other nutrients throughout the tropics. The hunting patterns...
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Adult Anxieties and Generational Blind Spots: Re-centring Childhood in the Sociology of Religion
Chapter 2 sets out the theoretical approach the book develops for the study of childhood and religion....
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Researching religion and migration 20 years after ‘9/11’: Taking stock and looking ahead
This contribution to the special issue on religion and migration reviews two decades of large-scale survey research on changes in immigrant religion...
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The Future of Religion and Secularity in Sociology’s History
Despite being foundational for the origins of modern sociology, religion as a topic of inquiry and the sociology of religion as a subdiscipline have...
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Ageing, Religion, and Living Arrangements in Bhutan
Religion is an essential element among the elderly population of South-East Asian and South Asian countries. Several scholars have examined the...
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Religion, Spirituality and Longevity
Religion/spirituality (R/S) is a powerful social determinant of health and has often been self-reported as an important influence in the lives of...
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Introducing the Field: ‘Migration and Religion’
In this chapter, we introduce the topic, discuss the aim, define a few key concepts and examine some of the methodological difficulties in...
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The NN’s souls-cult: a case study of catholicism and popular religion in Colombia
This article analyzes the cult of the souls in Purgatory in Puerto Berrío, Colombia, and its relationship with the Catholic Church. Through empirical...
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Religion in the Life of Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant was a practicing Catholic who emphasized the importance of faith in a myriad of ways. This article shows how religion had a...
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Lincoln’s Political Religion and Religious Politics: Or, What Lincoln Teaches Us About the Proper Connection Between Religion and Politics
Much of the debate over Lincoln and religion centers on his faith (or lack thereof), with scholars and laymen alike arguing for or against Lincoln’s...
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Religion and Black Racial Identity in Du Bois’s Sociology
This article focuses on W.E.B. Du Bois’s ambivalent reception of Protestantism, and of religion in general. It argues that he rejected institutional...
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Children as Investment: Religion, Money, and Muslim Migrants’ Experiences of Assisted Reproduction in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ)
Children are valued in all societies although the specific framing of that value differs. Several societies frame the value of children through the...
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Lived Religion, Conversion and Recovery Negotiating of Self, the Social, and the Sacred
The central theme of this book is the nexus between the self, the social, and the sacred in conversion and recovery. The contributions explore the...
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How to Study Religion? Notes on Research Methodology in the Context of Latin American Religions
The aim of this paper is to discuss on the main methodological procedures used in Anthropology and Sociology and applied in studies of Latin American...
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Religion, Memory, and Materiality: Exploring the Origins and Legacies of Sectarianism in the North of Ireland
The early 17th-century Plantation of Ulster, in which the English Crown sought to plant loyal British colonists in the north of Ireland, is commonly...
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How Diverse Are Eve and Adam? Gender, Religion and (Western) Modernity
Drawing on research in the sociology of gender, this article explains to what extent the sexual binary can be considered a specifically modern...
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Negotiating Tension and Change through Religion, Mortuary Practices, and Burial Sites within African-Descent and Moravian Communities in the Caribbean
Historical archaeologies of the African diaspora in the Caribbean have recently expanded on analyses of relationships among religion, mortuary...
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What is it Like to Evolve? Cultural Evolution as a Lived Experience
The evolution of human culture continues to divide social and biological science. Key issues for both sides are the complexity and variability of...