Ethnicité, religion, nationalisme

Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Class in Africa : A Retrospective

Résumé M. C. Young — Nationalisme, ethnicité et classe en Afrique : une rétrospective. Ces trois notions ont, tour à tour, constitué les thèmes dominants des études africanistes au cours des trente dernières années — chacun de ces thèmes, avec sa méthode d'approche particulière, ne permettant que peu d'imbrications et de recouvrements. Une confrontation systématique de ces approches — et de leu...

A Symposium on Religion : Religion and Society

theoretical expectations. The assumption is that along with modernization and economic development, adherence to religious world views (seen to be a relic of the past) gradually dissipate, as they have in other advanced societies. But they haven’t in the United States. In fact, the importance of religious commitments and religious organizations to American society increased over the last severa...

Religion: Ally, Threat, or Just Religion?

Religion in Taiwan How can religion without texts be transmitted ?

Religion and medicine IV: religion, physical health, and clinical implications.

In the fourth and final article of this religion and medicine series, I summarize the results of a comprehensive and systematic review of research examining religion's relationship to physical health and mortality. This review focuses on pain and disability, cardiovascular disease, immune and neuroendocrine function, susceptibility to infection, cancer, and overall mortality. I also explore wha...