The Spiritual Revolution: Why Religion is Giving Way to Spirituality

The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics

This discussion by a leading expert on drug use illuminates the factors that permit some people to use such highly addictive and dangerous substances as alcohol, marijuana, psychedelics, and opiates in a controlled fashion.

Understanding and Controlling Drug Users@@@Trafficking in Drug Users: Professional Exchange Networks in the Control of Deviance.@@@Substance Abuse, Habitual Behavior, and Self-Control.@@@Drug, Set, and Setting: The Basis for Controlled Intoxicant Use.

Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and the ’Mystic East‘

Im echten (analogen) Leben sind wir eher selten offenen Beleidigungen oder Hass ausgesetzt. Im Internet hingegen lesen wir deutlich häufiger wütende, hasserfüllte Kommentare, Snaps, Tweets und Posts gegen uns oder gegen andere. Für diesen Hass im Netz gibt es den Begriff "Hate Speech". Hate Speech ist ein Phänomen dem rund zwei Drittel (67 Prozent) der Onliner schon einmal begegnet sind, wie eine forsa-Umfrage im Auftrag der Landesanstalt für Medien NRW (LfM) zeigt.

What about Hate Speech

This article looks at the emergence of Muslims as a category of knowledge in surveys and opinion polls that have been conducted as a reaction to the rising demand for data about Muslim populations in Western Europe within the last ten years. The most prevalent feature of the conceptualization of Muslims is that they are inherently immigrants, or of immigrant descent, who are living within a certain nation state. This creates a continuous statistical invisibility of certain Muslims, for instance those without immigration backgrounds, as well as Muslims with national backgrounds other than Muslim majority countries. Further, this identification of the Muslim as immigrant, even if unintended, contributes to upholding a subtle exclusion of Muslims from the national community as always foreign and always potentially in need of integration.

Counting Deviance: Revisiting a Decade’s Production of Surveys among Muslims in Western Europe

Locating hatred: On the materiality of emotions

It is by now well known that the modern category of religion has evolved as part of a certain trajectory of Western history. Among its many aspects, this trajectory is about how religion became part of a definitive relationship with the category of the secular – a relationship that implies an understanding of religion as something distinct – and ideally separate – from other categories such as science, politics, and law. The place of the category of religion as part of this semantic as well as institutional landscape of separations makes it relevant to probe the possible consequences for sociology, if we are, as some scholars have argued, living in contexts which are increasingly post -secular. What happens, then, to the object – as well as the self-identity – of the study of religion? This article discusses some of the possible epistemological shifts inherent in the idea of a movement from secular to post-secular and it will reflect upon the possible avenues they open up for the sociological study of religion.

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Post-secular sociology: modes, possibilities and challenges

The academic study of religion at the public university often presents itself as a secular, non-religious, scientific endeavor. The identity of the study is thus firmly rooted within one of the cen...

"Doing the Secular": Academic Practices in the Study of Religion at Two Danish Universities.

This article is about hate as an outcast of current European politics. More precisely, it is about the uses of the term “hate” amongst European politicians, policy makers, NGOs and intergovernmental organizations as a mobilizing signifier in the ongoing work against a particular area of crime, namely crimes motivated by various forms of prejudice. The article builds on participant observation in anti-hate crime meetings and conferences in Denmark and at the European level as well as published speeches and policy documents. The current anti-hate crime mobilization is, as I will elaborate below, part of a much broader field of anti-discrimination, anti-racist and pro-human rights work in which a range of attitudes and practices is increasingly subsumed under the term “hate” and portrayed as a fundamental problem for a pluralist democracy (Jenness & Grattet 2001; Brown 2006; also Yanay 2013). In reading reports, campaigns and political statements about hate crimes, one may thus encounter statements such as the following:

Birgitte Schepelern Johansen

Papers

Counting Deviance: Revisiting a Decade’s Production of Surveys among Muslims in Western Europe

Locating hatred: On the materiality of emotions

Post-secular sociology: modes, possibilities and challenges

"Doing the Secular": Academic Practices in the Study of Religion at Two Danish Universities.

Hate as a political outcast