in this article, religiosity status of people and different social groups in the city of tehran based on clark and stark’s analytic and theoretical models have been considered. with regard to these two viewpoints, the main aim of this research is to study and identify faith, affection, rituals, conceptual and consequential of people’s religiosity. the main question is that whether results of pr...

Salt Lake City , the place where my wife and I and our cats live, is roughly equidistant from the three states of Nevada , Idaho , and Wyoming . Ignoring the admonitions of local church authorities, every weekend thousands of Salt Lakers travel by car, bus, or plane to these neighboring states to gamble in casinos, buy lottery tickets, or (during the summer) bet on horse races. For better or wo...

This essay explores religion’s need for law, comparing the story told in Mitra Sharafi’s Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia (2014)—about the virtual hijacking of British colonial law to serve the communal religious needs of Parsis in colonial India—to other contexts in which secular and religious legal systems have built symbiotic relationships, including in the United States and Thailand....

Abstract A marked feature of the contemporary U.S. constitutional landscape is campaign by an Evangelical-Catholic coalition against idea secularism, understood this alliance to mean exclusion religion from state and its progressive marginalization social life. Departing tendency treat project as a national phenomenon, article places it within longer global genealogy earlier international Chris...

This article argues that the post-secular turn is new social analysis shapes politics of impoverized2 in Islamic liberation theology. In this article, I suggest that, given essentialism and determinism characterizing much contemporary studies religion secularism, a direct articulation approach from an theology perspective both inevitable necessary. Such can offer meaning for secularism by engag...