Adolescence is frequently seen as a troubled age. In many Western societies this is also a
time of sharp religious decline. The question arises as to what extent religious faith and …

The shift of attention from the decline of organized religion to the rise of post-Christian
spiritualities, anti-religious positions, secularity, and religious indifference has coincided with …

There is little question that organized religion as embodied in the Christian churches has not
fared well in recent decades. Yet, precisely the period when the decline of organized …

In environmental ethics and landscape research, sacralisations of nature have commonly
been considered in the context of so-called nature religions or ethnic religions of traditional …

A clear understanding of what constitutes effective religious leadership in the context of faith
communities is essential for religious practitioners, religious communities, and educational …

Background The thesis of religious decline, central to secularization theory, has become
massively contested among social-scientific students of religion. Its critics observe not so …

Abstract Objective Justice Capital provides a theoretical framework for explaining individual
differences in the belief in a just world (BJW). However, this framework has yet to receive …

This article examines nationally representative survey data from the Netherlands, collected
in 2015 (N= 2,197) to study whether the 'spiritual but not religious' embrace New Age …

This paper examines transreligiosity in the context of the transmission of South Asian
concepts of spirituality to the UK in the 20th century. Between the 1920s and 1990s, Indian …

The Baptist church is one of the largest religious denominations in the United Kingdom and
part of the wider global Baptist congregation. This study offers an initial exploration of …