Descrizione della rivista

The purpose of the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion (ARSR) is to investigate the “new” role of religion in the contemporary world, which is characterized by cultural pluralism and religious individualism. 

It is the aim of the ARSR to combine different methods within the social scientific study of religion. The ARSR employs an interdisciplinary and comparative approach at an international level, to describe and interpret the complexity of religious phenomena within different geopolitical situations, highlighting similarities and discontinuities. Dealing with a single theme in each volume, the ARSR intends to tackle the relationship between the practices and the dynamics of everyday life and the different religions and spiritualities, within the framework of post-secular society. All contributions are welcome, both those studying organizational aspects and those exploring individual religiosity. 

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Descrizione dell’attività svolta nell’annata 2018

Volume 9: The Changing Faces of Catholicism (2018)

Guest Editors: Solange Lefebvre and Alfonso Pérèz-Agote Poveda

Introduction to The Changing Faces of Catholicism by Solange Lefebvre and Alfonso Pérez-Agote 

Part 1: Catholicism in Both Catholic and Pluralistic Societies

1 Religion and National Identity in Catholic Societies: The Quarrel between Religion and Culture 
  Jean-François Laniel 
2 Popular Religiosity and Value Changes in Mexico City Youth 
  Jesús Antonio Serrano Sánchez, Ramiro Gómez-Arzápalo and Alejandro Gabriel Emiliano Flores 
3 From a Place of Popular Religiosity to a Transnational Space of Multiple Meanings and Religious Interactions 
  Helena Vilaça 
4 Cultural Catholics in the United States 
  Tricia C. Bruce

Part 2: Strategies within Specific Countries to Counteract the Secularization Crisis

5 Occupying the Margins of Society: Operationalizing Minority Identity Politics among Youth within the Catholic New Evangelization 
  Paul L. Gareau 
6 Catholic Reconquest: The Case of the Sainte Blandine Megachurch in Lyon 
  Valérie Aubourg 
7 The Catholic Charismatic Renewal ( ccr ) in the Americas 
  Andrea Althoff and Jakob Egeris Thorsen 
8 Religious Practices, Beliefs and Commitments on the Margins of the Catholic Church in Belgium 
  Karel Dobbelaere and Liliane Voyé 

Part 3: Strategies and General Attitudes of the Catholic Church, and of the Vatican Centre in Particular,in Relation to Problems of the Global Era

9 Catholicism and Eastern Religions: Spiritual Innovators and Interreligious Dialogue (de Mello and Merton) 
  Andrew P. Lynch 
10 Religion in a Globalized Culture: Institutional Innovation and Continuity of Catholicism—The Case of World Youth Day 
  Sławomir Mandes and Wojciech Sadłoń 
11 The Joy of Dialogue in an Intercultural World: Educational Implications from Evangelii Gaudium 
  Graham P. McDonough

Part 4: Changes in Specific Catholic Institutions

12 Navigating the Fault Lines of Catholic Institutional Identity 
  Kevin Ahern 
13 The Economy of Stability in Catholic Monasteries in the Czech Republic and Austria 
  Barbora Spalová and Isabelle Jonveaux 

Volume 10: Interreligious Dialogue. From Religion to Geopolitics (2019)

Guest Editors: Giuseppe Giordan and Andrew P. Lynch

Introduction: Interreligious Dialogue: From Religion to Geopolitics by Giuseppe Giordan and Andrew P. Lynch 

Part 1: Interreligious Coexistence, Sacred Spaces and Multi-Religious Rituals

1 European Identities, Heritage, and the Iconic Power of Multi-Religious Buildings: Cordoba’s Mosque Cathedral and Berlin’s House of One 
  Mar Griera, Marian Burchardt and Avi Astor 
2 Struggling to Establish Jewish-Muslim Dialogue in a Paris Synagogue after the 2015 Attacks 
  Samuel Sami Everett 
3 The Lingsar Festival on Lombok, Indonesia: Cooperation and Contestation at a Shared Sacred Site 
  Volker Gottowik 
4 Beyond Interreligious Dialogue: Oral-Based Interreligious Engagements in Indonesia 
  Izak Y.M. Lattu 
5 Geopolitics and Interreligious Dialogue: A Phenomenological Turn in Transnational Churches 
  Tanner Morrison 

Part 2: Interreligious Governance and Politics

6 Enacting Diversity: Boundary Work and Performative Dynamics in Interreligious Activities 
  Alexander-Kenneth Nagel 
7 Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding: A Case Study on Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Post-conflict Educational System 
  Giuseppe Giordan, Adriana Michilli and Siniša Zrinščak 
8 Municipal Interreligious Dialogue in Bordeaux: Between the “Politics of Diversity” and a Catholicentric Laïcité 
  Gwendoline Malogne-Fer 
9 Minorities and Interreligious Dialogue: From Silent Witnesses to Agents of Change 
  Emanuela C. Del Re 
10 Interreligious and Interfaith Dialogue in Post-Soviet Russia: Debates about Secularism and Post-secularism 
  Marianna Napolitano

Part 3: Interreligious Action and Social Context

11 Commitment without Borders: Jewish-Muslim Relations and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Habitus in Berlin 
  Elisabeth Becker 
12 Conversion Dialogue and Resilient Pluralism 
  Oleg Dik 
13 More than Tea and Samosas: Dialogue for Action in Leicester 
  Tom Wilson 
14 Through One Another’s Lenses: Photovoice and Interfaith Dialogue 
  Roman R. Williams, William L. Sachs, Catherine Holtmann, Elena G. van Stee, Kaitlyn Eekhoff, Michael Bos and Ammar Amonette 
15 Interreligious Education in a Post-secular World: The Relevance of the Radhakrishnan Commission’s Recommendations in the Indian Context 
  Arpita Mitra

16 The Cube of Love Experience at School: Fostering Peaceful Societies Through a Pedagogy of Dialogue 
  Marianna Pavan and Alberto García

Volume 11: Chinese Religions Going Global (2020)