Background: There is a huge interest by faith-based organizations (FBOs) in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere in HIV prevention interventions that build on the religious aspects of being. Successful partnerships between the public health services and FBOs will require a better understanding of the conceptual framing of HIV prevention by FBOS to access for prevention intervention, those concepts ...

SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione - 2. “Breve durata” delle restrizioni e proporzio-nalità: l’interpretazione del Bundesverfassungsgericht 3. Il Consiglio di Stato francese la “question de proportionnalité” della libertà culto 4. “Secular gatherings” v. “secular businesses”: il tertium comparationis nella giurisprudenza Corte Suprema statunitense 5. Emergenza sanitaria test proporzionalità Strasburgo: ...

Due to its artificial and unnatural structure, Israeli society has since the beginning of its establishment, been a context for the emergence of different kinds of cleavages and tensions. This state of affairs has endangered the political stability of the Israeli regime. The present research is trying to answer this question: what is the effect of religious-secular cleavages in Israel on the fu...

This special issue seeks to fill a gap by taking the first steps towards locating early Middle Ages in broader history of secular. While it has generally been assumed that division between religion and secular was impossible make medieval period, taken together articles this collection show variety seculars, all arising from general assumption distinctions could, indeed had to, be made what not...

We used computational social network mapping in combination with human and automated content analysis to analyze the Iranian blogo-sphere. In contrast to the conventional wisdom that Iranian bloggers are mainly young democrats critical of the regime, we found a wide range of opinions representing religious conservative points of view as well as secular and reform-minded ones, and topics ranging...

Berdychiv, a traditional center of Jewish culture and religion, was subjected to an intense “modernization” drive after the Soviet seizure power. The Bolsheviks aimed create new society by tearing down old social structures replacing them with secular, socialist alternatives. But in early years Union, question how realize this project still matter experimentation. This paper discusses sovietiza...

Newly established religious minorities in Western European countries and Australia have sparked fresh questions about the public place of religion. The current situation region reflects a certain agonism over religion its relation to liberal secular order. This has especially been case for region’s Muslims context marked by fears radicalisation extremism. contribution considers these responses ...

The present article problematizes current dominating approaches to method and theory in the study of religion by pointing their inapplicability theorists working outside secular worldviews. first section this introduces decolonialist narratives touching on important topics which are subsumed within larger discussions, such as secularism, positionality, others. This is done putting René Guénon (...

The purpose of this paper is to explore motivation from a Christian perspective and its implications for relationships between management and consumers, managers and employees, and stockholders and managers. The contribution of this paper is twofold: first, it provides a brief review of the literature on motivation as it appears in college business-related textbooks. Second, it introduces a phi...