The Persistent Religious Gender Gap In The Netherlands In Times Of Secularization 1966 2015

Author : Joris Kregting
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643911780

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The Persistent Religious Gender Gap in the Netherlands in Times of Secularization, 1966-2015 by Joris Kregting Pdf

Over the last 50 years, the Netherlands has undergone a process of massive secularisation, in terms of the decline of institutionalised religion. This study tests a wide range of explanations for this process, built on modernisation theory, with high quality survey data. In addition, despite modernisation and the rise of gender equality in the area of social structural location, a religious gender gap persists in the Netherlands with women being more religious than men. With a comprehensive model of social and psychological differences between Dutch men and women, this study contributes to an explanation for this gap.

Author : Jeroen Jans
Publisher : LIT Verlag
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783643964991

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State without Religion? by Jeroen Jans Pdf

In recent decades, the Netherlands and Flanders have faced challenges in how to deal with a multicultural society. As far as worldviews are concerned, the question arises whether the state should guarantee a maximum level of choice concerning religion and humanism to individuals or leave a free space to the religious and humanist communities. This study explores in how far committed Catholic, Protestant, Muslim and humanist youth agree with different models of the relationship between worldviews and the state against the backdrop of their religious and humanist beliefs, as well as social determinants. It does so by drawing on quantitative and qualitative empirical research. The analyses show that, overall, most religious and humanist youth prefer the state to guarantee a maximum level of choice to individuals, but also want the state to respect a substantial free space for communities. Above all, they want the state to treat worldviews equally before the law. Their religious and humanist beliefs are the most significant determinants. Jeroen Jans (*1990) works at the Diocese of Hasselt and is a visiting researcher at Radboud University. He performed his doctoral research at the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies.

Author : Zainal A. Bagir,Michael S. Northcott,Frans Wijsen
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643913944

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Varieties of Religion and Ecology by Zainal A. Bagir,Michael S. Northcott,Frans Wijsen Pdf

This collection presents critical environmental problems with respect to their intersection with culture and religion in Indonesia, such as water resource management, conservation, and political ecology. Scholars from the region ground investigation in ethnographic field studies that represent diverse communities, including Indigenous perspectives from across the archipelago. The discussion is forward-looking and sophisticated, offering a meaningful and critical engagement with the field of religion and ecology. Anna M. Gade, Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States.

Author : Dorris van Gaal
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643913999

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Migrant Spirituality by Dorris van Gaal Pdf

Migrant Spirituality makes visible the migration stories of African-born migrants to the USA, analyzes their experiences, and appreciates them as a source for theological reflection. The correlation of these narratives with John of the Cross' narrative of The Dark Night reveals that the dynamic between the concepts of vulnerability, spiritual humility, and God's transformative agency is central to understanding the spiritual dimension of the process of transformation in both narratives.

Author : Pratheesh Michael Pulickal
Publisher : LIT Verlag
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783643964700

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Exploring Kenosis Spirituality: The Implications for the CMI's Spiritual Formation by Pratheesh Michael Pulickal Pdf

This dissertation is a study of kenosis spirituality aimed at determining how the spiritual formation of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI) can be effectively infused with a more profound and genuine understanding of kenosis spirituality. Employing a communication-oriented method involving three interconnected and progressive steps, namely, an analysis of syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and concentrating on the role of the text-immanent reader, this study conducts an in-depth textual analysis of five key texts. These have been chosen from the Bible, the Eastern and the Western monastic traditions, the early writings of the CMI, and the Indian Christian Ashram to ascertain a deeper understanding of kenosis spirituality. The study subsequently considers how to introduce insights regarding kenosis into the CMI's spiritual formation. Pratheesh Michael Pulickal, from Kerala, India, a Catholic priest of the Syro-Malabar rite, belongs to the CMI Congregation.

Author : Roy Alexander Surjanegara
Publisher : LIT Verlag
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783643963352

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Power in Reformed Polity by Roy Alexander Surjanegara Pdf

In the framework of the international academic dialogue on Reformed church polity this study focuses on the way the notion of authority is articulated in the church orders of three Indonesian churches with different historical and missionary backgrounds. The analysis deals with the main aspects of church polity that would articulate power: identity, assembly, and ministry. It shows resonances between the characteristic features of Reformed polity and the cultural context of Indonesia. Authority can be characterized as context-relevant, relational, and accountable. Roy Alexander Surjanegara (1979), serves an Indonesian congregation in Australia. He started his PhD research in church polity in Amsterdam in 2012.

Author : Dori-Michelle Beeler,Jojan Jonker
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643912701

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Reiki Practice and Surrender by Dori-Michelle Beeler,Jojan Jonker Pdf

The authors discuss the religious spiritual healing practice Reiki, revealing components of it that help transform the message held by the alleged life-force called reiki energy into meaning expressed in efficacy for the recipient's body, mind and spirit. Components that are analyzed include but are not limited to, touch, symbols, initiation, and precepts. The practitioner's surrender to a combination of internal and external authority - with reiki energy being part of that - is a crux in Reiki practice and one means with which practitioners speak of beneficial effect. This work contributes to academic knowledge about how practicing a religious or spiritual practice may contribute to one's well-being and flourishing life. Moreover, it explores the question of the nature of Reiki in academic definitions of religion.

Author : Tery Setiawan
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643912886

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Support for interreligious conflict in Indonesia by Tery Setiawan Pdf

Author : LIT Verlag
Publisher : LIT Verlag
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643964625

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Essays on Philosophy and Religious Studies by LIT Verlag Pdf

Analecta Bruxellensia has been since 1996 the annual review of the Protestant Faculties of Theology and Religious Studies (FUTP (French) and FPTR (Dutch)) in Brussels. Analecta 21 is a varied number. Three themes are developed covering exegetical, historical, sociological, theological and philosophical fields. The first explores hermeneutics related to the understanding and assimilation of the biblical text; the second addresses the weight of ideology in the construction of narratives invoked in the representation of the Other; the third pursues this theme of encounter and otherness in various historical perspectives. From a queer exegesis of the narrative of Acts 8 to the question of the extent of Christ's salvation in the hypothesis of inhabited worlds in science fiction literature, the eclecticism of these academic contributions, as well as their relevance to contemporary debates, promise the reader multiple changes of scenery and genuinely new thinking. This issue also includes a previously unpublished contribution by Paul Ricœur, a restitution of a three-speaker conference given in January 2000 on the theme of justice between ethics and law.

Author : Trimargono Meytrias Ebenheser
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643913371

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Interfaith Marriage by Trimargono Meytrias Ebenheser Pdf

Interfaith marriage is a sensitive and crucial issue for churches in Indonesia and for the religiously plural Indonesian society. This study first deals with the development of civil law, specifically from Marriage Law No. 1/1974. The stances of the churches in Indonesia are wide ranging and include the history of church teaching, biblical interpretation, and church regulations. This contextual church polity study presents a new effort to formulate both a theology of marriage and a family theology, specifically a theology of interfaith marriage, and to formulate a relevant and contextual church order.

Author : Deborah de Koning
Publisher : LIT Verlag
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643965042

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"Ravanisation": The Revitalisation of Ravana among Sinhalese Buddhists in Post-War Sri Lanka by Deborah de Koning Pdf

This book discusses Ravanisation: the revitalisation of Ravana among Sinhalese Buddhists in post-war (after 2009) Sri Lanka. The Hindu Ramayana generally portrays Ravana as a cruel king. How and why, then, has Ravana gained the interest of Sinhalese Buddhists? This study takes an ethnographic perspective to answer these questions. The book discusses multiple Ravana representations that have emerged at an urban Buddhist site (the Sri Devram Maha Viharaya) and a rural site (Lakegala), and discloses how Ravanisation relates to Sinhalese Buddhist ethno-nationalism. In addition, the material, ritual, and spatial perspectives offer unique insights in the personal and local relevance of Ravana. Dr. Deborah de Koning holds a PhD degree in Religious Studies (Tilburg University, research funded by the Dutch Research Council) and currently works as lecturer Intercultural Communication and Hinduism and Buddhism at the Christian University of Applied Sciences (CHE, The Netherlands).

Author : Marta Trzebiatowska,Steve Bruce
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0198709722

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Why Are Women More Religious Than Men? by Marta Trzebiatowska,Steve Bruce Pdf

"Women are more religious than men. Despite being excluded from leadership positions, in almost every culture and religious tradition, women are more likely than men to pray, to worship, and to claim that their faith is important to them. Women also dominate the world of 'New Age' spirituality and are far more superstitious than men. This book reviews the now-sizeable body of social research to consider if the gender gap in religion is indeed universal. Marta Trzebiatowska and Steve Bruce extensively critique competing explanations of the differences found. They conclude that the gender gap is not the result of biology but is rather the consequence of important social differences overlapping and reinforcing each other. Responsibility for managing birth, child-rearing and death, for example, and attitudes to the body, illness, and health, each play a part. In the West, the gender gap is exaggerated because the social changes that undermined the plausibility of religion bore most heavily on men first. Where the lives of men and women become more similar, and where religious indifference grows, the gender gap gradually disappears. Written in an accessible style whilst drawing some robust conclusions, the book's main purpose is to serve as a state-of-the-artreview for those interested in one of the largest differences between male and female behaviour."--Dust jacket.

Author : Mirella Klomp
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004442948

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Playing On: Re-staging the Passion after the Death of God by Mirella Klomp Pdf

In Playing On: Re-staging the Passion after the Death of God, Mirella Klomp shows how the Dutch playfully rediscover Christian heritage. Engaging theologically with a public Passion play, she demonstrates how precisely a production of Jesus' last hours carves out a new and unexpected space for God in a (post-)secular culture.

Author : Hans Knippenberg
Publisher : Maklu
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9055892483

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The Changing Religious Landscape of Europe by Hans Knippenberg Pdf

Twenty-first-century Europe has become the scene of very contrasting tendencies where religion is concerned. These include secularisation, religious revival, and the rise of immigrant religions, particularly Islam. Consequently, the traditional religious landscape is changing considerably and the current religious landscape exhibits a remarkable variety, which can be traced back to past and present political-geographical constraints. The book focuses on religious development in the different countries of Europe and includes case studies from ten countries. These case studies, written by local experts, look on three topics: the changing religious composition of the population; he geographical distribution of the religious communities involved; the changing state-church or state-religion relationships.

Author : Tim Bale,Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781316518762

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Riding the Populist Wave by Tim Bale,Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser Pdf

Cutting-edge comparative analysis of the challenges posed by the populist radical right to Western Europe's Conservative, Liberal and Christian Democratic parties.