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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...
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Between Religion and Ethnicity: The Politics of Halal in China
The ambivalent space between ethnicity and religion, between ‘ethnic custom’ and ‘religious belief’, is evident in brewing controversies over halal...
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Religion and the Environment
This chapter addresses the study of religionand the environment by focusing on lived religion and the ways in which people are shaped by, and draw...
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Beyond Rational and Utilitarian Action: Moral and Emotional Giving Within Chinese Folk Religion
Despite a trend to use rational and utilitarian paradigms to interpret the revival of folk religions, other human motives need to be acknowledged....
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Religion, Politics, and Ideology: Migration and Everyday Assertion
This chapter investigates the sub-themes of religion, politics, and ideology of Dalit migrants as well as the ways in which their beliefs have...
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Making sense of the crisis: how religion shapes the attribution of meaning during the corona pandemic
In times of existential crisis, such as the Corona pandemic, people may turn to religious traditions that help them make new sense of the depressing...
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Does Religion Foster Prejudice Among Adherents of All World Religions? A Comparison Across Religions
BackgroundThe relation between religiousness and prejudice has been the topic of a large research literature, yet this was so far mostly limited to...
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Religion, Women, and Girls’ Rights in Zimbabwe: the Case of Zimbabwe’s Johanne Marange Apostolic Church
The study sought to understand the position of the Johanne Marange Apostolic Church on women and girls’ rights in Zimbabwe. Engaging in this study...
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Religion and State in Jewish Burial in Israel: The Establishment and Administration of Har HaMenuhot in Jerusalem, 1949–1967
Har HaMenuhot, the cemetery in western Jerusalem, was founded in 1949, but its first two decades were rife with disagreement and neglect. In the...
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Paradoxes in psychology resonating in its empirical research of religion
As a scientific enterprise, the psychology of religion is vitally dependent on developments in psychology in general, sharing its strengths as well...
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Lived Religion and Migrant Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary (Neoliberal) City
This chapter engages with some of the debates around secularisation, postsecular urbanism and the complex relationships between religion and...
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The Influence Region of Origin, Area of Residence Prior to Migration, Religion, and Perceived Discrimination on Acculturation Strategies Among sub-Saharan African Migrants in Australia
The study examined whether there was an influence of region of origin, area, or residence prior to migration, religion, and perceived discrimination...
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Believing and Belonging: Media Representations of Islam and Muslims in Britain and Its Relationship to British Civil Religion
This chapter explores the intersection of media representations, civil religion, and their implications for Muslims in British society. Civil...
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Introduction
This chapter introduces the project by articulating why abortion is a contentious issue within British Catholic parishes, evidenced through a parish...
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Liberation War Veterans’ Masculinity and African Traditional Religion in Zimbabwe: Insights into Holistic Health and Well-being
This chapter explores Zimbabwe guerrilla veterans’ acts of violence and bravado. We examine the veterans’ attitude to warfare and argue that they...
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Environmental Justice Activism: A Transformative, Contemporary Nature Religion
Our in-depth study of 12, spiritual but not religious (SBNR), participants arrested to protect nature as sacred presents a case to consider the...
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Conclusion
In this concluding chapter, we cover three things. Firstly, we will give an overview of the key findings of the project, including how most...
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Remote Possibilities: Sermons as Religious Support during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Psychological and sociological studies have reported that highly religious people have better mental health overall, which was also confirmed during...