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)...

Dialogue between local culture and Islam is the main feature of peripheral Indonesian Islam. In rural sociology, a clash will occur when two go hand in social interaction. The Tenggerese people East Java, as residents, face dilemma clashing customs religion through traditional marriages. This article seeks to answer how wedding ritual procession identity also applies Muslim minority Tengger, (c...

Pastoral Psychology is one of the oldest and most well established academic journals in the field of psychology and religion/spirituality. Since 1950, the journal offers an international interdisciplinary forum for the publication of original papers that discuss the work of caring for, understanding, and exploring human beings as persons, in families, in small groups, and in community. This pee...

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...

Abstract The field religion and international relations (IR) has been established over the last twenty years within discipline of IR. It marks a new (largely twenty-first century) set interdisciplinary engagements, bringing together political science sociology religion. “Religion IR” “religious studies” continue to conduct their business independently, in different conferences, journals, book s...

Turkey has long been a country which exercises secular state system. Its constitution identifies the country as a secular one, and state institutions are no doubt secular. It has been the state’s policy to exercise laicism on every level from education to legal system since the establishment of the Republic in 1923. Yet, this policy did not end up with Turkish people turning away from religion....

The article makes predictions about dataism, noting disagreements over the definition, highlighting tendency to perceive it as a problematic threat humanity. Dataism is considered in terms of spe-cific religious traits, construction faith and trust algorithms, formation groups specialists accumulation symbolic power. Pierre Bourdieu's sociology religion theoretical frame-work used study worldvi...

Despite the size and growth of political science and sociology relative to other disciplines, political science and sociology graduate students have received a declining share of funding for dissertation field research in recent years. Specifically, political science and sociology students are losing out to competitive applicants from humanities-oriented fields that provide strong training in a...

Empirisk forskning i radikal islamisme viser, at radikale islamister oftest selv forstår deres verdenssyn, handlinger og motiver som dybt religiøse. Alligevel har forskere ofte nedtonet de religiøse dimensioner af radikalisering. Denne artikel argumenterer for, der ikke er nogen vej uden om forsøge forstå islamisme, da det dem, giver en følelse meningsfuldhed retning livet, hvorfor centrale rad...