Soon after my arrival in Turkey in January 2008 for a year's research stay, the country was
abuzz about a group of twenty high school students from the city of Kirşehir in central …

Honorable Mention, American Sociological Association Section on Religion Distinguished
Book Award A rapidly growing number of Americans are embracing life outside the bounds …

Global struggles over women's roles, rights, and dress increasingly cast the secular and the
religious in tense if not violent opposition. When advocates for equality speak in terms of …

The model of secularism as the overarching framework for managing the relationship
between religion and politics has come under increasing scrutiny in recent International …

Este artículo propone un análisis sobre los nuevos mecanismos de incidencia del campo
evangélico latinoamericano desde un encuadre regional, a partir de un estudio de la …

To what extent do women accept, adjust and challenge the intersecting and shifting relations
of cultural, political and religious discourses that organize their (sexual) lives? Seeking to …

This article explores how national security policies are influenced by national religious
politics. First, the state's religious policy greatly influences which security interests the …

New Age channeling aims at intimate and daily contact with benevolent incorporeal entities.
In an Israeli channeling course, students learn to interpret external events in a new light and …

This article calls for morebottom-up inquiry'into the secular, departing from the assumption
that it features normative ideologies and practices that dominate current societies. I plea for …

This study investigates the discursive construction of secular martyrdom in contemporary
Arab discourse by analysing 215 Arabic public martyr texts in which martyrdom was used in …