This article  studyies Political Identity of Dagestani people in the North Caucasus. At the first, I have defined a true theory of political identity, which is compatible with Dagestanis. This theory defines political identity in two aspects: grounded aspect, which is geography and history, and the social-environmental aspect, which includes culture (especially religion, costumes and ethnicity)...

historical sociology, as a comparative study of social groups, leads to the understanding of the structure of a society, its background and its composition in the past and these serve as the setting for the historical events. it also provides an insight which bridges the gap in the evidence and claims of the historians and contributes to the improvement and promotion of historians' mode of...

This International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR) keynote lecture offers a glimpse on 20 years research transnationalization Orisha religion in ‘Black Atlantic’. By expanding Gilroy’s analyses to include South Atlantic, and particular, Brazil Nigeria, I focus diffusion these religious practices tricontinental space circulation. The transnational ‘Yoruba’ community is constituted b...

Can a cultural memory and identity constructed around traumatic events in the historical past, interpreted as the result of pollution of the sacred center, give a group an evolutionary advantage under the right conditions? This article assesses this question by examining three different waves of religious entrepreneurship that drove the evolution of the ancient Israelite religion between the la...

Religion and spirituality are contested terms in the fields of Religious Studies, Theology, Sociology or Anthropology Religion, other areas, notion faith has often been abandoned altogether. The present article attempts to make a distinctly philosophical contribution this debate by employing phenomenological parameters, as they articulated work Martin Heidegger, for proposing distinctions betwe...

Religion, in both the sense of the institution and religious practices, is embedded in society the social forms of religious life are fully integrated into the structures of society. Secularization is a source of great debate, and is a prominent feature in the sociology of religion literature. The need to examine the extent to which Catholicism in Ireland has been affected by the secular moveme...

in this article, the writer, exploring the most important theories of psychologists, anthropologists and sociologists about the origin of religion and roots of religiosity, tries to show that there is no ultimate agreement and explanation about these questions and that the currently working theories are suffering from grave theoretical and/or empirical shortcomings. the writer, however, argues ...