The changing face of American compassion: ethnicity, religion, and worldview conflicts by J. Hexham

“…In this article popular misunderstandings of the role of religion in the USA will be discussed to show that the issue is far more complex than the media and a host of critical authors want us to believe and that the attack on “Faith Based Initiatives” has far-reaching implications for the relationship between Christianity and politics in both America and the rest of the world. …”
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Religion and Church in the vision of Ivan Franko. To the Frankivsk anniversaries in 2016 by Anatolii M. Kolodnyi

“…The fact is that the Church somehow perceive freedom of religion, freedom of religion, but each of them does not allow itself freedom In religion, freedom In its religion. …”
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The Effect of Watching Iranian Religious Animations on Religion Behavior in Adolescents by Seyed Mojtaba Razawi Tousi, Sahba Samadi

“…Adolescents are so much in favor of media productions and they criticize its religious notions and TV productions has a great influence on making a true attitude towards spirituality and religion so possibility of influence Iranian religious Animation on the religious behavior of audiences was studied with use the role of schools in gathering homogeneous audience. …”
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Misusing books: material texts and lived religion in the Roman Mediterran by Coogan, J

“…Recent historical scholarship on lived religion in the Roman Mediterranean has expanded beyond traditional conversations about theological concepts and scriptural interpretations, but this critical turn sometimes neglects material texts as sacred and powerful objects. …”

Christian Meaning Making through Suffering in Theology and Psychology of Religion by Laura Shannonhouse, Jamie Aten, M. Elizabeth Lewis Hall, Eric Silverman, Jason McMartin

“…When empirically testing meaning-making processes during and subsequent to painful life circumstances, psychologists often use religion as the means for operationalizing global beliefs, since religions comprise comprehensive meaning-making frameworks. …”
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New topics in feminist philosophy of religion: Contestations and transcendence incarnate by Anderson, P

“…New Topics in Feminist Philosophy of Religion maintains this vitality with both women and men, from their own distinctive social and material locations, contributing critically to the rich traditions in philosophy of religion. …”

The Myth of Religious NGOs : Development Studies and the Return of Religion (abstract) by Philip Fountain

“…A pervasive secular-religious dichotomy is implicit within this conceptualisation, constructing development as located within the secular domain, set apart from religion. drawing upon critical scholars of religion, this chapter argues that development studies has perpetuated a ‘myth of religious NGOs’. …”
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ENGLISH-EFFECTS OF ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION ON SCHOLARS PERFORMANCE AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL by Hafiz Muhammad Ibrarullah, Muhammad Riaz

“…It is recommended that religious students and especially scholars must need to study Encyclopedia of Religion for strengthen their knowledge, critical thinking. …”
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Sacred spaces in virtual places: Locating religion in the financial market by Beate Kerlis

“…This paper utilises Kim Knott's spatial framework as a theoretical and methodological resource for exploring the boundaries between religion and non-religion. By examining the various ways in which the "sacred" operates across these boundaries, Knott's framework provides a critical lens through which to enable a systematic description, analysis, and contextualisation of Islam within the global financial market space-and, more so, how the Islamic financial market space is practised, represented, lived, produced, and reproduced.…”
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A Standing Invitation to the Gods: Philosophy of Religion and the Phenomenology of the Sacred by Andreas Nordlander

“…Using their work as a foil, I discuss the relation between phenomenology and metaphysics in the experience of the sacred, specifically the possibility of a pluralism that is nonetheless realist; the necessity of social embeddedness and pedagogy in the constitution of sacred meaning; and finally, the problem of moral discrimination within this sphere. Through this critical discussion a constructive argument emerges: philosophy of religion done in a phenomenological mode has resources to address these difficult issues, and thus to explore experiences of the sacred in ways that are metaphysically sophisticated, attentive to historical tradition and pedagogy in the constitution of meaning, as well as to the need of communal moral deliberation in the sphere of the sacred.…”
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Integrating Religion Moderation on Pancasila Student Profile at Elementary School by Resti Septikasari, Tri Ratna Dewi, Ahmad Taufiq Yuliantoro

“… Problem in study This started with exists National Medium Term Development Plan (RPJMN) at the Ministry of Religion that is strengthening moderation religion and plans Strategic at the Ministry of Education and Culture that is strengthening Profile Pancasila students, which of second matter this is very related. …”
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From the Margins to the Centre: Commercialisation of Religion - Threat or an Opportunity in Pentecostalism? by Andrew, Daniel Nicolaas

“…The study is conducted in the form of a comparative literature study and draws from literature on the phenomenon of Pentecostalism in the work of Allan H. Anderson to have a critical understanding of the prosperity gospel and how it impacts current conversations on the commercialisation of religion in Pentecostalism. …”
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On the Role of Gesinnung in Kant’s Ethics and Philosophy of Religion. Part II by Alexei N. Krouglov

“…The sources of Kant’s term Gesinnung and a review of the problems of its translation into English were presented in the first part of this article; the second part examines the novel features that Kant brings to the interpretation of this concept in the critical period. In the Critique of Practical Reason these include the questions of manifestation of Gesinnung in the world, apprehended through the senses, the method of establishing and the culture of truly moral Gesinnung, as well as the problem of the immutability of Gesinnung in the progress towards the good. …”
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Eduard von Hartmann: post-Christian religion and German idealism by V V Zolotukhin

“…This paper is devoted to the consideration of Eduard von Hartmann’s philosophy of religion. The author examines his critic of the liberal theology. …”
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The Metaphysics of the Masses: A Research on the Role of Religion in Schopenhauer's Philosophy by AmirAbbas Soulikhani, Hedayat Alavitabar

“…Finally, some criticisms against his views on religion, including the secularization of religion, are raised. …”
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Critique with Limits—The Construction of American Religion in BioShock: Infinite by Jan Wysocki

“…Released in 2013, BioShock: Infinite is a blockbuster first-person shooter which explores topics of American nationalism and religion. This article examines how religion is represented within the game and how motifs from American religious history are used to construct its game world. …”
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Analyzing the Role of Religion and Religious Institutions in Policymaking on AIDS in Iran by Rahim Khodayari-Zarnaq, Hamid Ravaghi, Ali¬ Mohammad Mosaddeghrad, Khorshid Mobasseri Mobasseri

“…Conclusion: Religion and its corresponding ideology have critical encouraging and preventive functions in implementing plans for control and prevention of AIDS. …”
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Pascal Boyer: Den ganske historie om religion (nogensinde) by Jeppe Sinding Jensen

“…Then follows a discussion of the central concepts of domain specificity concerning cognitive representations and the ‘counter-intuitive’ nature of religious thought and, further, Boyer’s subsequent ideas concerning rituals and the ramifications for social formations and historical developments in what he calls ‘The Full History of All Religion (ever)’. Next, the reviewer offers some ‘critical intuitions’ and questions the return of (a new mode of) psychologism in the human sciences and Boyer’s dependence upon earlier theorizing which is not clearly noted nor acknowledged, but which has consequences for the epistemic status of his project and for those who follow the same tracks in the cognitive study of religion. …”
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Freedom of religion in Malaysia: Debates on norms and politico - Legal issues by Abdul Hamed Shah, Dian Diana, Mohd Sani, Mohd Azizuddin

“…Malaysia takes great pride in being a melting pot of different cultures, races and religions, co-existing under the purportedly “moderate Islamic nation” model. …”
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Social complexity and religion at Rome in the second and first centuries BCE by Bendlin, A, Bendlin, Andreas

“…</p><p>In chapter two, modern interpretations of Roman religion, which view Republican religion as a 'closed system' in which religion is undifferentiated from politics and from public life, are criticized. …”