Rather, we ask how people actually do believing in the course of reasonable activity. Socks If you say “my socks are blue” and someone challenged that, you’d pull up your pants leg and say “Look, they’re blue! It’s a really dark blue, but it’s not black.” This is an ...
The study, published in the March issue of the journal Sociology of Religion, is generating considerable buzz online — much of it linked to Schieman’s finding that a third of Americans agree with the ratherdefeatiststatement: “There’s no sense in planning a lot because ultimately my fate ...
Like many other individuals of the past and present, the field of religion set before him a lucrative opportunity he seized upon. How sincere he may have been in the beginning is impossible to tell, but I am convinced by many subsequent facts that his possible sincerity in the beginning was...
We also saw in our fieldwork that claims regarding some countries of origin are more rigorously inspected, viewed with scepticism and have a higher rate of refusal. Despite the lack of objective evidence that quotas exist, the perception on the part of some claimants that they do reflects the...
This combination situates religion's meaning-making capacities in relation to identity and the individual as a reflective index of social structures. This is not to say that persons are one-to-one reflections of society but are rather embodied beings possessing particular trajectories and experiences...