Religious Education in Russia: Inter-Faith Harmony or Neo-Imperial Toleration?

The Crisis of Religious Toleration in Imperial Russia: Bibikov's System for the Old Believers, 1841-1855

Religious Culture: Faith in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

ForbiddEn dandyisM: iMPEriaL aEsthEtiCs in ContEMPorary russia

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Religious toleration of Muslims in the German Public Sphere

This study investigates public resistance towards Muslims’ civil liberties, such as the wearing of headscarves, the provision of Islamic education and the building of mosques as well as the official recognition of Islam by creating a Islamic public holiday. Explanations were sought in negative perceptions and attitudes towards Muslims and individual value orientations. The main findings, based ...

Religious and Scientific Faith in Simplicity *

Both religion and science start with basic assumptions that cannot be proved but are taken on faith. Here I note that one basic assumption that is rather common in both enterprises is the assumption that in comparing different hypotheses that all equally explain the observations, the simpler hypotheses are more probable (Occam's razor or the law of parsimony). That is, explanations should be ma...