This article sets forth a critical integrative review of the study gender, sexuality, and religion. Treating religion as cause, an effect, intermediary factor in relation to gender it draws on synthesizes multiple theoretical approaches, including queer lenses religion, cultural analysis, intersectionality. The is structured around 10 big-picture questions about argues that sexuality are key sy...

This paper quantifies the association between religions, religiosity and educational attainment of new lawful immigrants to the U.S. This paper considers a broad set of religions that includes most of the major religions of the world. Using data from the New Immigrant Survey (2003), we show that affiliation with religion is not necessarily associated with an increase in educational attainment. ...

This article draws on the religions of indigenous tribes in order to show that religion does not have be a site domination and exclusion (human or non-humans). It is systematic account minutiae tribal religions. primarily discusses god-self-world continuum within paradigm looks at ethical implications various metaphysical commitments it instructs. Looking earth-centred spirituality uncovers man...

The twenty-first century is often characterized as an era of unprecedented mobility and interconnectivity, but it is also marked by efforts to reinforce national borders and curtail human movement. Paradoxes of mobility and immobility in our increasingly unequal world come into sharp focus when viewed through the lens of religion. Sociologists, anthropologists, and scholars of comparative relig...

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, ...

As we estimate here, 68% of human beings--4.6 billion people--would say that religion is important in their daily lives. Past studies have found that the religious, on average, have higher subjective well-being (SWB). Yet, people are rapidly leaving organized religion in economically developed nations where religious freedom is high. Why would people leave religion if it enhances their happines...