Abstract During the COVID -19 pandemic, traditionalist Catholic communities have been able to draw worshippers from mainstream parishes that restricted services, thereby profiting crisis. In addition, they used pandemic conditions advance an ultra-conservative strain of Christian theology foregrounds role believers in Ecclesia militans or “militant Church” by rejecting (in part) state-imposed m...

Abstract This article explores how Giriama elders represent their ‘traditional religion’ ( dini ya jadi ) through ‘interfaith’ cooperation with Christians and Muslims in the coastal Kenyan town of Malindi. Based on extensive ethnographic research, analyses Traditionalism relates, complex ambivalent ways, to normative assumptions ideals regard what religion entails, turn seek recognition as repr...

Abstract As an expression of the complex global religious entanglements, esoteric knowledge did appeal also to Eastern Europe, in Romania being particularly imprinted by local discourses and practices characteristic Orthodox Christianity. This paper attempts briefly sketch indigenization “currents” such as alchemy, spiritualism, Theosophy, Anthroposophy, Traditionalism etc. Romania. Apart from ...

The study is devoted to the value profile of contemporary Romanian society. It supports the thesis of “Pseudo-modern Romania”, not so much in the sense of a society with artificial modernity, but rather a heterogeneous society, with traditional, modern and postmodern segments. “Pseudo-modernity” is identified especially in the hesitation between participation and non-participation to public int...

Abstract Populist voices argue that Muslim migrants’ religion would cause them to denounce all aspects of women’s equality and sexual liberalization, no matter how long migrants have lived in Western Europe. Previous quantitative studies refuted claims Islamic religiosity necessarily begets gender traditionalism not become more progressive over time. However, existing yet addressed the assumpti...