W. E. B. Du Bois’s contribution to the study of the Negro Church was his historical argument about the viability and influence of African culture. Du Bois asserted the partial autonomy and creativity of black culture. This was a crucial achievement in his day when normative theories of African cultural “backwardness” prevailed. Du Bois’s detailed analyses of particular local black communities a...

Throughout the whole history of IS adoption research, researchers struggled to frame, conceptualize, and define social norms in a sufficient way. While research during the last three years provided helpful advice to overcome this challenge, it still remains the question, why other shapes of norms (e.g. cultural norms, religious norms, moral norms, or legal norms) were hardly ever framed or disc...

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...

The declining dissent among Catholic clergy since the 1970s has consistently been attributed to cohort replacement, indicated by age differences, as a result of changes in Catholic religious culture, despite a recognition in recent sociology of religion of the importance of institutional agency. I test (1) whether changes in priest’s beliefs and values are due to cultural trends (indicated by b...

This article sorts recent approaches in the sociology of religion into six groups, each of which tells a different story about what his happening to religion in the late-modern world. One, the secularization narrative, sees religion in decline. A second narrative tracks a rise of “fundamentalisms” worldwide. A third notes that religion is becoming local, especially in the United States. A fourt...

In the fall of 2004, the Program in Jewish Law and Interdisciplinary Studies of Cardozo School of Law organized an international conference on the competing claims to authority of text, tradition, and reason in both law and religion. The conference was predicated on the view that legal and religious traditions share a common interpretive structure and face common dilemmas over how to integrate ...

This paper tries to examine related the fulfillment of mut'ah which is applied in Religious court Yogyakarta City namely find out how efforts and solutions given by Judge regarding mut'ah. order achieve objectives law enforcement form justice, benefit legal certainty. research a field research, examining religious City. The nature used prescriptive. approach this sociology with method from satj...