2ReligiousLiteracyRichardson(2017, 373) refersto thedefinitionofferedby Prothero (2007, 15) thatpos-tulatesthatreligiousliteracy is:“Theabilityto understandandusein one’sday todaylife,thebasicbuilding blocksofreligioustraditions–theirkey terms,symbols,doctrines,practices,sayings, characters,metaphorsand...
Perhaps no other subject in America engenders the level of controversy and intensity of emotions as the Second Amendment. Gun rights advocates and gun control advocates occupy opposing positions on the political spectrum regarding the role of guns in America. The Second Amendment has been a motivatin...
20 In Confucian China, where religious symbols and rituals necessarily also had a political meaning, upholding harmony in ‘All-under-Heaven’ was as much a divine as a ‘national’ political mission.That Confucianism became the only sanctioned doctrine does not mean that ‘China’ became ...
The “Islamic veil case” dominated the public debate on the secularism, from 1989 to the prohibition of religious symbols in primary and secondary education, in 2004.Footnote 2 New actors were introduced to the debate, such as militants of different feminist currents, who associated in a new ...
250Rubina Raja(Palmyrene priests). This leads to questions about the range of choices that wereavailable and the limits that applied to such practices of individualisation.While a set number of parameters come into play in tesserae imagery, includingpriestly iconography, symbols, deities and inscrip...
”Being skeptical of science resolving the prob-lem of mortality and logical about their positionsmaylend support to our claimsthat the nonreligious feardying,not death.Symbolic immortality,the ideaofliving on through the legacyone has cre-ated in life, wasmuch more common across our data.The ...
In the following presentation, we scrutinise how the post-Soviet Russian discourses on “empire” interweave religious symbols and narratives together with (geo)political ideas, and we try to establish the political norms and identities these discourses enable. We attempt to present an analytical overv...
In the following presentation, we scrutinise how the post-Soviet Russian discourses on “empire” interweave religious symbols and narratives together with (geo)political ideas, and we try to establish the political norms and identities these discourses enable. We attempt to present an analytical overv...
This law prohibited the wearing of religious signs in an ostensible manner, such as the Christian cross, the Jewish kippah, or the Muslim hand of Fatima (González-Urrego 2017). Thus, teachers and students could not display religious symbols in public schools. This is stated in Article 1: ...
The intensification in Europe of the political debate on religion and the hardening of the confrontation between religious and secular groups on morality policies and religious symbols (headscarves, crucifixes, etc.) calls for placing the relationship between political secularism and religious freedom at...