Showing papers in "Religion in 2018"

TL;DR: In this paper, a critical rethinking of Islamic education through mapping the main relevant literature and identifying and engaging with the central theoretical issues while suggesting a new academic framing of the field and its interdisciplinary research agenda is presented.

TL;DR: For the past five years (2012-2017), the Max Weber Center of Erfurt University has hosted a project on "Lived Ancient Religion: Questioning "cults" and "polis religion" as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: This latest version of the SpNQ provides researchers with a reliable and valid instrument that can now be used in comparative studies, and cultural and religious differences can be addressed using their different language versions, assuming theSpNQ’s structure is maintained.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss some aspects of the key concepts, some of the distinct characteristics of religion in East Asia, and some implications for the social scientific study of religion.

TL;DR: A review of measures evaluating several dimensions of spirituality and religiosity used in clinical settings found only six measures were found that assessed spiritual distress and/or the needs of which only two had been investigated more than twice.

TL;DR: In this paper, a bibliometric study and citations of articles indexed in the multidisciplinary database Web of Science (WoS) was conducted to evaluate the academic literature related to religious tourism.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored how the curriculum of Islamic religious education potentially contributes toward the development of Indonesian conservative Muslims and how religious education teachers view sensitive issues concerning conservative Islam, and the analysis of religious education curricula and the interviewing of teachers serve as the primary methods of data collection.

TL;DR: This paper examined media coverage of 11 post-9/11 terrorist events between 2011 and 2016 to determine if any changes in media coverage have occurred in a climate of increased awareness of Islamophobia.

TL;DR: This article conducted a qualitative analysis of tweets written in the aftermath of the 2016 British referendum on European Union membership (also known as “Brexit”), which was followed by a surge of Islamophobic episodes.

TL;DR: Despite the prediction that modernization would lead to secularization, the past 30 years brought a global resurgence of religion as discussed by the authors, as many scholars note, religion has gained a new visibility in the...

TL;DR: This study aims to synthesis the experience of spiritual distress as lived by cancer patients in qualitative primary studies through a literature review based on electronic databases search.

TL;DR: The authors delineate some of the specific ways in which "religion" and "development" interact and mutually inform each other with reference to case studies from Buddhist Thailand and Muslim Indonesia, and seek to move discussions toward more conceptual and comparative reflections that can facilitate better understandings of the implications of contemporary entanglements of religion and development.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented the validation process of the Brief SRCOPE scale (14 items) for use in the Brazilian context, where data were collected from the general population (N = 525) and subjected to exploratory factor analysis (EFA; n = 249).

TL;DR: This article investigated the prevalence of religious and spiritual struggles among atheists and compared theists in two samples (3978 undergraduates, 1048 Internet workers) and found that atheists experience less demonic, doubt, divine, moral, and overall R/S struggles than theists, but similar levels of interpersonal and ultimate meaning struggles.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the effects of religious beliefs on environmental behaviors in China and found that most religious beliefs had negative effects on private environmental behaviors while having positive effects on public environmental behaviors.

TL;DR: The intensification of radical and extremist thinking has become an international cause of concern and the fear related to terrorism has increased worldwide as mentioned in this paper, and early 21st century public discourses ha

TL;DR: There are both differences and similarities between Middle Eastern and Western research on spiritualty and health, and comparative studies between patient and nurse populations in Western societies and in the Middle East are warranted.

TL;DR: In this paper, an extended version of the former three-item Gratitude/Awe scale was designed with a focus on the experiential aspects of being moved and touched by certain moments and places/nature, on related reactions of pausing with daily activities, and on the subsequent feelings of awe and gratitude.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Qur'an and Sunnah have been used as primary-source pedagogies for teaching and learning Islam, and three themes were constructed, each capturing a distinct pedagogic principle, to suggest an expansive framework of principled, flexible, situated, holistic, and transformative pedagogy.

TL;DR: The role of the Pentecostal Evangelical movement in the success of the "No" campaign in the Colombian peace plebiscite of 2 October 2016, where Colombians voted to reject the peace agreement which had been reached between the Colombian government and the Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC) as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on the results of ethnographic research on women's circles, women-only spaces that celebrate sisterhood and the "feminine" including the increasingly globally popular "Red Tent".

TL;DR: The authors compared representations of ideological violence by Muslim versus non-Muslim perpetrators in Canadian national news media (the Globe and Mail, National Post, and CBC) and found that acts of Muslim violence received 15 times more coverage, on average, than those of non-Muslims.

TL;DR: A critical appraisal of how the concept of the "market" has been understood and employed in previous scholarship on religion and religious change in market society is provided in this article, where the authors argue for the adoption of a broader marketization-focused perspective that views ongoing changes in the religious field against the backdrop of wider neoliberal socio-economic restructurings of the global political economy and social institutional fields.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse how notions of the market and of marketisation have been literally and metaphorically applied to the study of religion, and they argue that such notions of market and marketisation can be used to understand the nature of religion.

TL;DR: The present study, Adventist Health Study-2, enrolled 96,194 Adventists throughout North America in 2003-2004 with funding from the National Institutes of Health, demonstrating that a vegetarian diet is associated with longer life and better health.

TL;DR: The authors argue that sociology, like all knowledge, is shaped by its historical-cultural origins and that sociologists of religion need to examine their inherited concepts to understand those concepts' limitations.

TL;DR: In this paper, Klastrup and Tosca show that the core elements of a Transmedial World are: Mythos, the lore of the world, the central knowledge necessary to interpret and successfully interact with events in the world; Topos and Ethos, explicit and implicit ethics and codex of behaviour.

TL;DR: In the first century CE, sexual issues played a significant role in Judaism's engagement with its Greco-Roman world as discussed by the authors and they played a key role in the demarcation between Jews and the wider community, alongside such matters as circumcision, food laws, sabbath keeping, and idolatry.

TL;DR: The authors examines the texts written by the first generation of missionaries on the beliefs and mores of the indigenous people of what came to be called Mexico and Peru, supplemented by some acc...

TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between religious identity, gun ownership, and support for a range of gun control policies, including proposed remedies for preventing mass shootings, and found that white evangelicals are more opposed to stricter gun control laws and enforcement, even with statistical controls for gun ownership and demographic characteristics.