Background Islamic doctrine and related teachings play a seminal role in constructing the sexual performance of followers, women in particular. Objective The aim was to explore women's understandings of Islamic Shiite principles related to their sexuality. Materials and Methods In a qualitative content analysis approach, four individual interviews and seven focus groups conducted in Rafsanj...

Social psychologists have often followed other scientists in treating religiosity primarily as a set of beliefs held by individuals. But, beliefs are only one facet of this complex and multidimensional construct. The authors argue that social psychology can best contribute to scholarship on religion by being relentlessly social. They begin with a social-functionalist approach in which beliefs, ...

Progressive or liberal constitutional scholars who focus on religious freedom have not been pleased with the Rehnquist Court.' For more than a decade, it seems, the Court has been handing down decisions that have twisted the Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses in an unduly conservative direction. Most notably, Employment Division v. Smith radically transformed free exercise doctrine, while ...

The notion that religion and modemity ate mutuaUy exclusive has been a leading theme oŸ the sociology of religion in France and has been amply confirmed by empirical studies of religious practice, clerical vocations, and parish culture. But recent work on popular religion, post-1968 ideological communities, and new religious movements has caUed the presumption of secularization into question. I...

The movement of people from one country to another and the subsequent settling of migrants in host communities diversely affect all parties in relocation processes. Directly or indirectly, both migrant and their host communities respond differently to the worldviews of the migrants and the socio-cultural contexts of the host communities. While the religious beliefs of people appear to be the le...

This article describes the planning and implementation of online-based exam evaluations in Islamic Religious Education Learning at Nahdlatul Ulama 05 Brangsong High School. uses qualitative research with a case study approach. For data collection, researchers used observation, interviews, documentation techniques. The results this are Planning for assessment evaluation learning SMA NU Brangsong...

Contemporary China offers a particularly interesting setting to study religious diversity as a result of its unique socio-political context. Based on the quantitative and qualitative evidence in a representative sample of Chinese dissertations, this essay identifies two characteristics associated with the usage of ‘religious diversity’ in contemporary Chinese scholarship: firstly, the focal poi...