The article deals with the features of sociological analysis religion in Russia during imperial period its history. national tradition studying as a socio-cultural phenomenon and social institution, which was developed this period, had own unique peculiar appearance just begun to revive again post-Soviet Russia, contrasts that took place West. In context, appeal unfortunately undeservedly forgo...

Today our lives are filled with technology through which we communicate, work, play and even engage with for making meaning. This implies the pervasive presence of digital media as an integral part of our everyday life. Although studies on media are mostly done by sociology and communication students, living in a digital age has significant implications for theological reflections. Despite this...

The fact that women are more religious than men is one of the most consistent findings in the sociology of religion. Miller and Stark (2002) propose that a gender difference in riskpreference of physiological origin might explain this phenomenon. While acknowledging the utility of their risk-preference mechanism, we believe that their assumption regarding the genesis of this difference is a pre...

L EADING THE 1953 inaugural parade for President Eisenhower was a fl oat known to its builders as " God's Float. " Added to the parade lineup at the last moment, when a parade offi cial noticed that the event might fail to represent the idea that " this was a nation whose people believed in God, " the fl oat was constructed to make that abstract point concrete. It was built around a " central e...

CONTEXT Religion and spirituality play an important role in physicians' medical practice, but little research has examined their influence within the socialization of medical trainees and the hidden curriculum. OBJECTIVES The objective is to explore the role of religion and spirituality as they intersect with aspects of medicine's hidden curriculum. METHODS Semiscripted, one-on-one intervie...

Sociologists of the 19th and the 20th centuries were tackling the relation between science and religion. A few models of these relations were offered, by which the monopoly over the truth by any one of those is crashed. Therefore, there are a few models but each is with lots of limitations. None is sufficient to explain the relation between the science and religion, but each contributes to cert...

FINAL TEXT (as delivered 23 Sept, 2007) I have been asked to speak on “Healing, the Individual Search for Meaning, and Modernity”. This is a fascinating topic that connects with my own research on several levels. As some of you know, my first ethnographic fieldwork was an investigation of Sekai Kyusei-kyo, one of the 700 or so new religions founded in Japan in the 20 century – and a religion fo...

Development sociology as a distinct area of study gained prominence in the post-world war era with the evolving interest in political and economic progression of the post-colonial world. The emerging discipline from the mainstream sociology have been particularly interested in development paths and strategies adopted in nations in the various regions of the world with greater emphasis in develo...

A critical problem to study Catholicism in the context of Latin American modernity, is that conceptual tools we use religion were designed understand transformations modernity provoked European religiosity. Studies on Americans have largely explored religiosity population through surveys measure attendance, adherence and affiliation. While some anthropologists religious practices among particul...