Abstract In feminist research on religion, women and gender, the concepts of “lived religion” as well “agency doing take a prominent place. Both include an intersubjective mostly partial perspective. However, against background current developments concerning global religious right, paper argues for inclusion critical perspective through methodology double critique that includes both analysis p...

the studies on psychology of religion, which began in the 19th century in the context of experimental psychology and psychoanalysis, fall into two categories those which explore the impact of religion on various individuals and social dimensions, and those which concentrate on the methodology of religion. the present paper deals with the former category. few studies have so far shown a positive...

2 Social representations, alternative representations and semantic barriers Social representations research has tended to focus upon the representations that groups have in relation to some object. The present article elaborates the concept of social representations by pointing to the existence of " alternative representations " as sub-components within social representations. Alternative repre...

The Indonesian Constitution guarantees the freedom of citizens to worship according their religion. In reality, however, government had issued regulations that restrict building places, which is one way expressing religious freedom. These regulations, being trapped in discourse politicisation religion and religionisation politics, are contradictory aspirations founding fathers as expressed Cons...

In the past ten years there has been increasing interest in rigorous, quantitative analysis of the determinants of civil war, ethnic violence, and other forms of domestic conflict. Scholars have analyzed the impact of ethno-linguistic fractionalization, terrain, economic growth, natural resources, and a variety of other factors. Little attention, however, has been paid to quantitatively estimat...

This paper takes a broad and novel approach to analysing the Iranian Jewish community of Iran, both as a distinct group and as a constituent part of Iran’s wider population sharing its national culture. The goal was to find a new way of addressing the topic, avoiding many ambiguities, and bringing all discourse back to its starting point: Iranian identity. If we identify Persian roots as the fo...

this paper tries to study the complex relationship between religion, popular culture and the internet. the internet not only prepares some facilities for religion, but also it’s a site for a new interaction between religion and popular culture. first, the paper points out five features of the internet which help to extend and promote the religious communication in the cyberspace: 1. deterritori...

This research described an approach to building Religious Moderation according the Theophany concept, which is attempt decide attitude and action in life through a wise, unbiased perspective, risk beneficial many parties. Building religious moderation means forming attitudes actions avoid harming oneself, others, environment. Furthermore, achieving this process using concept enables formation o...