religion

“Everson”, “McCollum”, “Zorach”: The Supreme Court and the Debate on Church-State Relations in the United States in the Late 1940s — Early 1950s

This article studies the situation in church‑state relations in the United States in the late 1940s — early 1950s. The Supreme Court’s decisions in the Everson (1947), McCollum (1948) and Zorach (1952) cases concerned the majority of U. S. religious bodies. These decisions provoked debates on the issues of the secularization of American society and cooperation between church and state in various fields. Interpretation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment was an important subject of the polemics too.

Kicking, Stripping, and Re-Dressing a Saint in Black: Visions of Public Space in Brazil’s Recent Holy War

This article deals with a particular case of blasphemy that happened in 1995 when a Protestant televangelist insulted one of the most reverend religious symbols of Brazil — Nossa Senhora Aparecid. This was shown on TV as the televangelist’s protest against the presence of Catholicism in the public sphere of Brazil. The author uses this case in order to consider the cult of saints as a symbolic site where issues of nation, history, ideology, public space, and so on, come together.

Postsecular Conflicts and the Global Struggle for Traditional Values

Psychology of Religion as a Scientific Project

“It’s Time to Quit with Religion of Small Comforts!”: Body and Text in the Extreme Way of the Cross

Debates about Innate Religiosity in the Cognitive Science of Religion

Ethnos, Nation, Religion: Recent Scholarship and Societal Processes in the South Caucasus

Debating the Limits of the Georgian Church’s Participation in Public Life

Religion, Politics and Modernity in Georgia: The Case of May 17th, 2013

Italy as a Secular State: Historical and Legal Sketch

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