Meanings of pluralism in different disciplines – Meaning in jurisprudence, esp. European Court of Human Rights – Feature of society and idea of society – Individual freedom v. group existence – Politics, religion, education – Pluralism as expression of rights and as guarantee of rights – Rejection of legal pluralism – Contradiction of elitist theory – State protection of pluralism and its limits

This paper develops a framework for analyzing two personal stances on religion—Adherence to Religion and Autonomy from Religion. We propose that the are independent constructs rather than opposite poles of same continuum. Each stance is conceptualized as higher-order construct, with different first-order measures motivations, beliefs perceptions. With these conceptualizations, we explore releva...

In this transcultural study of schizophrenic delusions among patients in Seoul, Shanghai and Taipei, we discovered that both the frequency and content of delusions differed among the three groups; and that these differences could perhaps be explained by varying sociocultural and political situations. Delusional themes that are sensitive to sociocultural or political situations include guilt, lo...

Much of philosophical reflections about the relations between religion and politics fall within liberal tradition religious restraint, which generated both backlash a new traditionalism critical turn in study religion. Moving beyond real or imagined isomorphism politics, I show how political functions are closely connected to anthropological culture politics. The aim is provide theory with “awa...

Women’s participation in politics is low throughout the world – also in Cameroon. In this article we examine young Cameroonians perceptions of women politicians. To analyse Cameroonians perceptions of women in politics from a perspective of change we took social representations theory (SRT) as our theoretical starting point. All together 45 Anglophone and Francophone students participated in ei...

Psychoanalytic social theorists who work in the relational tradition have analyzed the psychodynamics of enemy systems and identified persistent themes in the operation of these systems. Although enemy systems often involve enmity between ethnic, national or cultural groups, the psychodynamic symptoms of such systems are observable when social groups cast familiar outgroups as enemies. In conte...

the main purpose of this essay is the recognition of the status and role of the orthodox church in russia’s ruling system from 1917-2010; therefore, the question that is put forth in this research is: what correlation existed between the orthodox church and russia’s ruling system? in order to respond to this question, a major hypothesis is highlighted: the government and the orthodox church hav...

After more than a century of research, the nature of the relationship between religion and mental health still is not fully understood. Some studies find that religion is associated with better mental health. Other studies find that religion is associated with worse mental health. Many prior studies have conceptualized religion either as individual religiosity or as religious group participatio...