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Popular Religion or Lived Religion? Exploring Indigenous Religious Festival Practice in Mexico
This article investigates the practice of lived religion in two contemporary indigenous communities in Mexico (San Juan Mixtepec, Oaxaca and El...
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British Yemeni Young People’s Experience of Body Image, Home, Food, Language, and Religion
This paper provides an in-depth knowledge on the social practices of an under-researched ethnic group in the UK, the British Yemenis. Through an...
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Religion and Fertility: A Longitudinal Register Study Examining Differences by Sex, Parity, Partner’s Religion, and Religious Conversion in Finland
We use longitudinal data on religious affiliation in Finland to examine childbearing behavior. All analyses are based on detailed fertility...
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Weaving Borders, Resorting to Beliefs: The Role of Religion in the Migratory Trajectories of Intracontinental Migrants in Latin America
This article seeks to problematise the relationship between migration and religion by exploring the different uses that migrants make of religion in...
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Beards, Tattoos, and Cool Kids: Lived Religion and Postdenominational Congregations in Northwestern Mexico
This paper analyzes the everyday experiences of 20 individuals from two prominent postdenominational congregations in northwestern Mexico that...
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Editorial: Religion in the public square. revisiting 9/11
Studies on 9/11 could fill a library. In this short introduction, the editor explains the reason for overcoming the hesitation to add more studies to...
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The making of religion in secular educational spaces — a view from Jordan
In this contribution, I plead for a thorough engagement with the theme of education when discussing the secular and the religious from an...
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Children, Young People and Diverse Worldviews: Religion, Spirituality and Non-religion
The significance of religion in young people’s lives has become increasingly complex and contested. Statistics reveal significantly lower rates of...
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Cultural Evolution of Religion, Spirituality and Ritual: Impacts On Human Cooperation
From the classic gene-centred view of evolution, cooperation is a mystery. This paper reviews the cultural evolutionary approach, which asks how...
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Gender, Religion, and Citizenship
Gender and sexuality are among the most intensely conflictual aspects of religion around the world. Religion is a key contributor to the continuation...
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Framing Religion
In this study’s second empirical chapter, I address the questions of to what extent the four dimensions of the democratic approach are employed and...
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Religion, Gender and Sexuality: The Devadasi System in Assam
The Devadasi tradition exists in some temples of India as a religious practice which requires the offering of pre-puberty girls for the worship of a...
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Parallel trajectories and theorizations of religion and family in modernity: Toward an institutional logics perspective
Scholars theorize the effect of modernization on religious and familial institutions in a parallel way. Some argue that both are irreversibly in...
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An Invitation to the Sociology of Religion: Important Questions Answered by Scholars in the Field
What are the most important questions in the sociology of religion? And how would scholars answer them? This article explores what people consider...
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Religion and the internet: digital religion, (hyper)mediated spaces, and materiality
This article offers theoretical reflections on the study of religion and the Internet by critically discussing the notion of “digital religion”...
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Mediumship disorder: alternative conceptions of body and disease in Umbanda religion
Western medical science has disseminated conceptions of body and disease that have become hegemonic, covering up other cultural and religious systems...
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Religion in the News Media
In Chap. 3 , I discuss the core of the four-layer rationale for the democratic approach or primarily the research...
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On Immigration, Religion and Home
Random thoughts on immigration, religion, and home is a journey into the past that transpires with a trip to the country of my origin, Guyana, which...
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On Concepts and Agency: Negotiating Religion and Non-religion in Collective Worship
Chapter 3 re-centres the discussion on collective worship to include the non-religious, and in doing so...