Contemporary Ukrainian Ethnic Religion: Essence and Basic Currents

Religion and Fertility in Contemporary Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland has been and continues to be deeply divided on the basis of religion. This paper examines and compares contemporary fertility in the two communities given the sharp declines that have occurred in recent decades. The data are drawn from the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study and cover 108,000 women aged 16-44 in the period 1997-2007. A logit analysis of births in the period is ...

State Religion and Discrimination Against Ethnic Minorities

Ethnic Relations in Contemporary China

Comparing with other ancient civilizations, China has very unique characteristics of a continuing written history throughout a series of successive dynasties over at least 3,000 years. The intensive interactions among different groups in the East Asian Continent in those years finally resulted in a multi-ethnic political entity with a huge population and a special culture-centered identity. In ...

Spiritual Tourism: Religion and Spirituality in Contemporary Travel

‘‘Ghost city”: Religion, urbanization and spatial anxieties in contemporary China