Observatoire Européen des religions et de la laïcité

African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa Emerging Trends, Indigenous Spirituality and the Interface with other World Religions Edited by Afe Adogame, University of Edinburgh, UK, Ezra Chitando, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe and Bolaji Bateye, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria Sample pages for published titles are available to view online [...]

Religion and the State A Comparative Sociology
Edited by Jack Barbalet, Adam Possamai and Bryan S. Turner

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Explores key issues in the modern tensions between state and religions by exploring a number of case studies from around the world. ‘Religion has emerged as a key variable in understanding modern societies, and all modern nations, no [...]

The Texas State Raid on the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints

Stuart Wright and James Richardson

In April 2008, state police and child protection authorities raided Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado, Texas, a community of 800 members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (FLDS), a [...]

Secular State and Religious Society:  Two Forces in Play in Turkey.

Edited by Berna Turam

Palgrave Macmillan

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Ever since the highly controversial appointment of a pious president in the secular Turkish Republic in 2007, both the Turkish state and society have been deeply divided over the issue of piety and Muslim politics. The essays in this [...]

The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion
Edited by Michael Stausberg, Steven Engler

Published November 16th 2011 by Routledge – 546 pages

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This is the first comprehensive survey in English of research methods in the field of religious studies. It is designed to enable [...]

Author : Hugh B. Urban

Cloth | 2011 | $27.95 / £19.95 | ISBN: 9780691146089
296 pp. | 6 x 9 | 14 halftones.

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ISBN: 9781400839438

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European Multiculturalisms: Cultural, Religious and Ethnic Challenges (EUP.

edited by Anna Triandafyllidou, Tariq Modood & Nasar Meer.

European Multiculturalisms explores issues of migration, Islam, integration and citizenship in Europe by focusing on 7 European countries – Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece and Spain.  It compares and contrasts a variety of [...]

The Texas State Raid on the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints Edited By Stuart A. Wright and James T. Richardson

In April 2008, state police and child protection authorities raided Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado, Texas, a community of 800 members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (FLDS), a polygamist branch of [...]