The Desecularization of the World: A Global Overview

Berger, Peter L.

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“…The effect of religion on preferences of people and populations has long been the focus of religious studies literature, but its power to affect preferences of governments and outcomes in international relations (IR) came to light only in the 1990s (Kepel ). Some argued that religion was experiencing a resurgence (Shah and Philpott ; Toft, Philpott, and Shah ); others that religion had never declined (Barnett ; Berger ; Stark ) . Religion's influence on political preferences is now well documented when goals are sacralized and/or competitors are defined by religious identities (e.g., Hassner ; Juergensmeyer ).…”

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The Influence of Religion on Interstate Armed Conflict: Government Religious Preference and First Use of Force, 1946–2002

Brown

2016

Scientific Study of Religion

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Effects of religious norms on interstate armed conflict are understudied compared to such effects on intrastate conflict. Yet religion exerts no less influence on states’ preferences and outcome of interstate interaction than other factors. Religion fosters emotion, in turn generating cognitive and motivational biases in states’ leaders. Religion acts as a political ideology that inculcates worldviews and programs political agendas. Religion accomplishes these things through scripture, clergy, and historical narrative. Through these media, religion instills standards of behavior, including for resort to (political) violence. Thus, religions influence states’ propensities to initiate interstate armed conflicts, even when belligerents’ goals are not necessarily sacralized. However, different norms are ingrained in different religions, and median war ethics of different religions range from permissive to restrictive. Therefore, over time and space, different religions are expected to have different effects on initiation of interstate armed conflicts. Regressing that outcome against the newly introduced Government Religious Preference (GRP) scores for Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism reveals that such is the case; different religions are differently associated with war and peace.

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The Influence of Religion on Interstate Armed Conflict: Government Religious Preference and First Use of Force, 1946–2002

Brown

2016

Scientific Study of Religion

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“…in details Hristov and Manova 2007: 211-231;Hristov 2007: 247-260). lose their power and influence, but religious beliefs and practices continue to exist in the life of the individuals. At the same time, other religious institutions continue to be socially and politically significant although few people practice the religion related to them (Berger 1999). Similarly, while globalization and intensified mobility lead to gradual loss of significance of the established state borders in Europe and frequent mentions of "European identity", at the same time, perhaps as a counterprocess, new borders appear (after the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union) or struggle to appear (the latest example of Ukraine) and in many countries nationalist movements make their way, gain new adherents and in some cases even put in the agenda the problem of exiting the EU (the French National Front, the Dutch Party of Freedom, the Independence Party in the UK, etc.…”

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Local Religiosity in the Context of Migration: The Cases of the Greek Catholics from Žumberak in Croatia and the Orthodox Christian Serbs in Eastern Serbia

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Periklieva

2019

Contemporary Migration Trends and Flows on the Territory of Southeast Europe

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Considering two case studies, this article presents the functioning and attitude toward local religiosity in the context of migration. The first case study examines permanent internal migration of the Greek Catholics from the region of Žumberak in Croatia and the second one temporary labour migrants from ex-Yugoslavia, particularly from Eastern Serbia and Western Macedonia. Searching for answers to the questions of the migrants' attitudes toward local religiosity, its role in the construction of identity and the impact of migration on it, we cannot but consider the "laws" to which these processes submit in social life.

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“…Space limitations do not permit a thorough explication of this long-running debate. For a small selection of key texts and overviews of these varying arguments see Berger (1969Berger ( , 1999, Bruce (2002), Davie (2000Davie ( , 2010, Martin (1978Martin ( , 2005 and Turner (2010bTurner ( , 2011.…”

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Seeker-friendly: The Hillsong megachurch as an enchanting total institution

Wade

2016

Journal of Sociology

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The increasingly voluntary quality of religious expression has prompted many faith-based entities to embrace 'secular' means of evangelism. This is evident within the Sydney-based Hillsong Church, which has grown rapidly in attendees, capital resources and global reach. This 'seekerfriendly' strategy, however, raises questions around whether the 'megachurch' can sustain itself in offering respite from wearying Weberian processes of rationalisation and disenchantment. Hillsong's resolution of this dilemma has been to create an encompassing arena of enchantment for constituents, a contemporary Goffmanian 'total institution' by reproducing the unalterable mechanisms of the economic order in a way that imbues them with greater meaning. Loyalties are sought by aligning desires for both personal reinvention and collective subsumption with the overarching evangelical aims of the Church. Thus for the committed devotee the transcendent and pragmatic may become synonymous and imbued with wonder, so that any gnawing dissonance felt as characteristic of late capitalism may be reconciled.

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The Desecularization of the World: A Global Overview

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The Influence of Religion on Interstate Armed Conflict: Government Religious Preference and First Use of Force, 1946–2002

The Influence of Religion on Interstate Armed Conflict: Government Religious Preference and First Use of Force, 1946–2002

Local Religiosity in the Context of Migration: The Cases of the Greek Catholics from Žumberak in Croatia and the Orthodox Christian Serbs in Eastern Serbia

Seeker-friendly: The Hillsong megachurch as an enchanting total institution

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