American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us

List of Plates.Preface.Introduction.1. Distinguishing Religion and Spirituality: Findings from Kendal.2. Testing the Spiritual Revolution Claim in Kendal.3. Evidence for a Spiritual Revolution: Britain and USA.4. Bringing the Sacred to Life: Explaining Secularization and Sacralization.5. Looking to the Future.Appendices.References.Index.

The spiritual revolution : why religion is giving way tospirituality

There are a growing number of scholars and institutions that have come to recognize organized religion as a major factor in contemporary international conflicts. But this recognition has yielded very little in the way of in-depth analysis of the nature of religion’s role in conflict, and it has yielded even fewer results in analyzing the ways in which religion has played an equally important function in human patterns of reconciliation in these same conflicts.

The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation

Emile Durkheim His Life and Work: A Historical and Critical Study

Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon

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Religions and Social Progress: Critical Assessments and Creative Partnerships

9 789814 722964 A is a flourishing discipline in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asian Anthropologies renders visible the development of national traditions and transnational practices of anthropology across the region. The authors are practising anthropologists and Southeast Asian scholars with decades of experience working in the intellectual traditions and institutions that have taken root in Southeast Asia since the mid-twentieth century. Anthropology’s self-criticism of the colonial, postcolonial and neocolonial conditions of its own production remains relevant for Southeast Asia. There has been a vigorous debate and a wide range of suggestions on what might be done to de-center the Euro-, andro-, heteroand other centrisms of the discipline from an emerging world anthropologies perspective. However, actually transforming anthropology requires practice beyond mere critique. The chapters in this volume focus on practices and paradigms of anthropologists working from and within Southeast Asia. Three overlapping issues are addressed in these pages: first, the historical development of unique traditions of research, scholarship, and social engagement across diverse anthropological communities of the region, which have adopted and adapted different anthropological trends to their local circumstances; second, the opportunities and challenges faced by Southeast Asian anthropologists as they practise their craft in different institutional and political contexts; and third, the emergence of locally grounded, intra-regional, transnational linkages and practices undertaken by Southeast Asian-based anthropologists.

Southeast Asian Anthropologies : National Traditions and Transnational Practices

This article aims to make sense of the discourse on 'religious pluralism' and 'religious harmony' in Singapore. My choice of the 'Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act' , passed in 1990, to launch this inquiry is by no means accidental or random. I argue that in addition to an empirical domain, it is a central analytical tool that has provided an occasion for the articulation of a range of taken-for-granted statements about 'religion', 'religious pluralism', and 'religious harmony' in Singapore. I map out how the religious scene is discussed by various parties. The inevitability of Singapore's multi-religiosity, the fragility of religious harmony, and the need for constant vigilance are dominant strands. The article addresses these related areas: a brief historical contextualisation of religion in secular Singapore is followed by a condensed narrative of the conditions and deliberations leading to the Act. Further, the discourse on religious harmony from the early 1990s is juxtaposed to present concerns ab...

Vineeta Sinha

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Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon

Religions and Social Progress: Critical Assessments and Creative Partnerships

Southeast Asian Anthropologies : National Traditions and Transnational Practices

Theorising 'Talk' about 'Religious Pluralism' and 'Religious Harmony' in Singapore

Food, foodways and foodscapes : culture, community and consumption in post-colonial Singapore