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Falola, Toyin. Health knowledge and belief systems in Africa. Durham, N.C: Carolina Academic Press, 2008.

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Stark, Cleveland A., and Dylan C. Bonner. Handbook on spirituality: Belief systems, societal impact, and roles in coping. Hauppauge, N.Y: Nova Science Publishers, 2011.

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Coleman, Douglas K. Fire's central role in human belief systems throughout the ancient world. Orange, CA, U.S.A. (P.O. Box 219, Old Plaza Station, Orange, CA 92666 U.S.A.): D.K. Coleman, 1989.

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Living as if: Belief systems in mental health practice. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1994.

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B, Singh S. Fairs and festivals in rural India: A geospatial study of belief systems. Varanasi: Tara Book Agency, 1989.

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Jie shi yu zheng jiu: Zong jiao duo yuan zhe xue lun. Shanghai: Xue lin chu ban she, 1996.

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Stortz, Margaret. Lights along the way: Concise histories and comparisons of three American metaphysical belief systems : Christian Science, Unity, and Religious Science. El Cerrito, Calif: Contact Margaret Stortz, 2006.

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Samraj, Adi Da. The knee of listening: The early-life ordeal and the radical spiritual realization of the Divine World-Teacher and True Heart-Master, Da Avabhasa (the "Bright"). Clearlake, Calif: Dawn Horse Press, 1992.

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The knee of listening: The early-life ordeal and the radical spiritual realization of the divine world-teacher. Middletown, Calif: Dawn Horse Press, 1995.

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Katherine, Gleason, ed. Releasing the goddess within. Indianapolis, Ind: Alpha Books, 2003.

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Erik, Jendresen, ed. Island of the sun: Mastering the Inca medicine wheel. Rochester, Vt: Destiny Books, 1995.

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Belief Systems, Religion, and Behavioral Economics. Business Expert Press, 2013.

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Taiz, Lincoln, and Lee Taiz. The “Plantheon” of Greek Mythology. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190490263.003.0007.

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“The ‘Plantheon’ of Greek Mythology” examines how—before the emergence of competing scientific paradigms—agricultural paradigms were subsumed into myth and integrated into religious worldviews that associated plants and agricultural abundance with women and goddesses. Hesiod’s Theogony provides valuable insights into Greek ideas about gender that influenced how plants were understood. Philosophers initiated a transition from myth-based to logic-based belief systems, but their proto-scientific views must be viewed against the backdrop of Greek mythology and religion. Women played important roles in religious festivals and rituals, the most enduring of which, the Eleusinian Mysteries, lasted until the end of the Roman Empire. The Eleusinian Mysteries and the Thesmophoria took as their basic text the Homeric “Hymn to Demeter” which recounts the story of Demeter, goddess of grain and the harvest, and her daughter Kore/Persephone. Myths concerning Aphrodite, Artemis, Chloris, Cybele, Adonis, Daphne, Dionysus and others, including the goddess Hermaphrodite, are discussed.
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Minton, Elizabeth A. Belief Systems, Religion, and Behavioral Economics: Marketing in Multicultural Environments. Business Expert Press, 2013.

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Black, Helen K., John T. Groce, and Charles E. Harmon. African-American Men’s Belief Systems. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190602321.003.0006.

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“A book about caregiving can’t be written,” one of our caregivers said, “without some discussion of our spiritual life.” Our caregiving respondents noted the importance of their religious and spiritual beliefs as a means for coping with the daily stress of caregiving. Men’s faith offered guidelines for the morality or “rightness” of caregiving. Prayer was a vehicle used to ask God for help, particularly when in distress. For the most part, men believed that God, Allah, or a Higher Power ultimately controlled the precariousness of the caregiving situation. Religious services and fellow church members often provided camaraderie and sometimes respite for the caregiver. Men’s faith became an internal well in which they laid conflicting emotions to rest and drew a continuing spring of strength and peace.
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Sacred Place (Themes in Religious Studies). Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001.

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Polydox Reflections. Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.

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Feldmann Kaye, Miriam. Jewish Theology for a Postmodern Age. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781906764685.001.0001.

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In the postmodern, relativist world-view with its refutation of a single, objective, and ultimate truth, it has become difficult if not impossible to argue in favour of one's own beliefs as preferable to those of others. This study is one of the first English-language books to address Jewish theology from a postmodern perspective, probing the question of how Jewish theology has the potential to survive the postmodern onslaught that some see as heralding the collapse of religion. Basing the book's arguments on both philosophical and theological scholarship, the author shows how postmodernism might actually be a resource for rejuvenating religion. The author's response to the conception of theology and postmodernism as competing systems of thought is based on a close critical study of Rav Shagar (Shimon Gershon Rosenberg) and Tamar Ross. Rather than advocating postmodern ideas, the book analyses their writings through the lens of the most radical of continental postmodern philosophers and cultural critics in order to offer a compelling theology compatible with that world-view. Whether the reader considers postmodernism to be inherently problematic or merely inconsequential, this book demonstrates why reconsidering these preconceptions is one of the most pressing issues in contemporary Jewish thought.
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Jones, Stephen H., Tom Kaden, and Rebecca Catto, eds. Science, Belief and Society. Bristol University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.46692/9781529206968.

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This wide-ranging book critically reviews the ways in which religious and non-religious belief systems interact with scientific methods, traditions and theories. Moving beyond the traditional focus on the United States, the book shows how debates about science and belief are firmly embedded in political conflict, class, community and culture.
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Jones, Stephen H., Tom Kaden, and Rebecca Catto, eds. Science, Belief and Society. Policy Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529206944.001.0001.

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The relationship between science and belief has been a prominent subject of public debate for many years, one that has relevance to everything from science communication, health and education to immigration and national values. Yet, sociological analysis of these subjects remains surprisingly scarce. This wide-ranging book critically reviews the ways in which religious and nonreligious belief systems interact with scientific theories and practices. Contributors explore how, for some secularists, ‘science’ forms an important part of social identity. Others examine how many contemporary religious movements justify their beliefs by making a claim upon science. Moving beyond the traditional focus on the United States, the book shows how debates about science and belief are firmly embedded in political conflict, class, community and culture.
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Poo, Mu-chou, H. A. Drake, and Lisa Raphals, eds. Old Society, New Belief. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190278359.001.0001.

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In the first century of the Common Era, two new belief systems entered long-established cultures with radically different outlooks and values: in that century, missionaries started to spread the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth in the Roman empire and the Buddha in China. Both were not only ancient cultures but also cultures whose elites felt no particular urgency to adopt a new religion. Yet a few centuries later, the two new faiths had become so well established that their names were virtually synonymous with the polities they had entered as strangers. This book brings together specialists in the history and religion of Rome and China with a twofold aim. First, it wishes to explore in detail some of the similarities and differences in the processes by which each religion merged into its new cultural environment. Second, by juxtaposing the two cases, it aims to reveal aspects of these processes that are often overlooked when studying the history of just the one or the other. The approach of this volume is thematic as well as comparative. It provides a series of essays focusing on key questions and specific aspects of the very complex, multifaceted processes of accommodation, assimilation, and contestation that played out in each society. The chapters also showcase methods from different disciplines including history, philology, economic history, and religious studies.
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(Translator), Bernard Miall, ed. The Great Secret. Book Tree, 2003.

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Peasants, Pilgrims and Sacred Promises: Ritual and the Supernatural in Orthodox Karelian Folk Religion (SF Folkloristica). Finnish Literature Society, 2002.

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Jones, C. V., ed. Buddhism and Its Religious Others. British Academy, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266991.001.0001.

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Throughout its history Buddhism has developed alongside other traditions of religious belief and practice. Forms of Buddhism have in every era, region and culture been confronted by rival systems that challenged its teachings about the world, how to behave in it, and liberation from it. This volume collects studies of Buddhist literature and art that represent the religious other to their audiences. Contributing authors examine how Buddhists in India, China and elsewhere across Asia have understood their place in shared religious landscapes, and how they have responded to the presence and influence in the world of traditions other to their own. We consider in these studies a variety of ‘others’ that Buddhists of different times and situations have encountered, and the variety of mechanisms that Buddhists have employed to make sense of them. Chapters of this volume explore the range of attitudes that Buddhists have expressed with respect to other religions, how they have either accommodated the other within their worldview, or pronounced the redundancy of their ideas and activities. These chapters illuminate how over the centuries Buddhists have used and reused stories, symbols and other strategies to explain religious others and their value, in which every representation of the other is always also a comment on the character and status of Buddhism itself.
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Religion and Criminal Justice. Cognella Academic Publishing, 2015.

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John, Da Free, and Adi Da. The Knee of Listening: The Early-Life Ordeal and the Radical Spiritual Realization of the Divine World-Teacher. Dawn Horse Press, 1996.

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Samraj, Adi Da. The Knee Of Listening: The Divine Ordeal of the Avataric Incarnation of Conscious Light (The Seventeen Companions of the True Dawn Horse, Book 4). The Dawn Horse Press, 2004.

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Gleason, Katherine A., Katherine Gleason, and Gail Carr Feldman. Releasing the Goddess Within. Alpha, 2002.

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Jendresen, Erik, and Alberto Villoldo. Island of the Sun: Mastering the Inca Medicine Wheel. Destiny Books, 1994.

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Coghen, Monika. Polish Romanticism. Edited by Paul Hamilton. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696383.013.29.

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The starting point for Polish Romantics was, as for many of their Western counterparts, the focus on the self. But personal existence was represented as a worthy sacrifice for the sake of the national cause. In the aftermath of the failure of the 1830 Uprising, pessimism, melancholy, and metaphysical and political rebellion were countered by messianic ideas of the émigré poets. Idealism, led to religious belief, whether Catholicism or less orthodox systems. The confrontation of the individual with history was therefore enacted on the metaphysical plane, and presented mainly in the dramatic form, which became the domineering genre in the post-1831 period. Through the deep belief in the ethical and social roles of poetry Polish Romantics played a crucial part in preserving the national identity of their readers, truly earning the status ofwieszcz, the poet-prophet.
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Dye, David H. Ancient Mississippian Trophy-Taking. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935420.013.30.

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Appropriating and manipulating human body parts was an important component of the belief system throughout much of the world. In eastern North America, Mississippian trophy-taking behavior was predicated on beliefs that focused on human life forces believed to reside in body elements, especially the head and scalp. Archaeologists have generally neglected to apprehend the potent meanings of trophy-taking behavior as a component of indigenous belief systems. Trophy-taking has been traditionally viewed as grounded in competition over economic resources, intercommunity conflict, or the pursuit of personal status and political advancement. This essay explores how Mississippians engaged in trophy-taking behavior, including snaring life forces for religious purposes through raiding and warfare, especially mortuary programs and ritual performances that emphasized the spirit’s journey to the realm of the dead and the enduring cycle of life and death. This alternative approach embraces a multidisciplinary perspective that includes archaeology, bioarchaeology, ethnography, ethnohistory, iconography, mythology, and osteoarchaeology.
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Uro, Risto, Juliette J. Day, Rikard Roitto, and Richard E. DeMaris, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Ritual. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198747871.001.0001.

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Scholars of religion have long assumed that ritual and belief constitute the fundamental building blocks of religious traditions and that these two components of religion are interrelated and interdependent in significant ways. Generations of New Testament and early Christian scholars have produced detailed analyses of the belief systems of nascent Christian communities, including their ideological and political dimensions, but have by and large ignored ritual as an important element of early Christian religion and as a factor contributing to the rise and the organization of the movement. In recent years, however, scholars of early Christianity have begun to use ritual as an analytical tool for describing and explaining Christian origins and the early history of the movement. Such a development has created a momentum towards producing a more comprehensive volume on the ritual world of early Christianity employing advances made in the field of Ritual Studies. The Handbook will give a manifold account of the ritual world of early Christianity from the beginning of the movement up to the fifth century. The volume introduces relevant theories and approaches (Part I), central topics of ritual life in the cultural world of early Christianity (Part II), and the most important Christian ritual themes and practices in emerging Christian groups and factions (Parts III and IV).
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Bose, Mandakranta, ed. The Oxford History of Hinduism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198767022.001.0001.

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The central purpose of the book is the critical exposition of the Hindu idea of the divine feminine, or Devī, conceived as a singularity expressed in many forms. With the theological principles examined in the opening chapters, the book proceeds to describe and expound historically how individual manifestations of Devī have been imagined in Hindu religious culture and their impact upon Hindu social life. In this quest the authors draw upon the history and philosophy of major Hindu ideologies, such as the Purāṇic, Tantric, and Vaiṣṇava belief systems. A particular feature of the book is its attention not only to the major goddesses from the earliest period of Hindu religious history but also—and especially—to goddesses of later origin, in many cases of regional provenance and influence. Viewed through the lenses of worship practices, legend, and literature, belief in goddesses is discovered as the formative impulse of much of public and private life. The influence of the goddess culture is especially powerful on women’s life, often paradoxically situating women between veneration and subjection. This apparent contradiction arises from the humanization of goddesses while acknowledging their divinity, which is central to Hindu beliefs. In addition to studying the social and theological aspect of the goddess ideology, the essays in this book take anthropological, sociological, and literary approaches to delineate the emotional force of the goddess figure that claims intense human attachments and shapes personal and communal lives.
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Bruce, Steve. Defining Religion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786580.003.0003.

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We cannot explain if we cannot identify what needs explaining. This chapter challenges the idea that religion is particularly difficult to define. It demonstrates that what are often called functional definitions are actually assertions about possible consequences of religious belief and argues for a substantive definition that accords with what most people think of as religion: systems of beliefs, behaviour, and organizations built on the assumption of a divine being or beings with the power of moral judgement. It also considers what we mean by spirituality and by the secular. The links between the secular, secularism, secularity, and secularization are clarified.
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Plummer, Marjorie Elizabeth. Stripping the Veil. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192857286.001.0001.

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Protestant nuns and mixed-confessional convents are an unexpected anomaly in early modern Germany. According to sixteenth-century evangelical reformers’ theological positions outlined in their publications and reform-minded rulers’ institutional efforts, monastic life in Protestant regions should have ended by the mid-sixteenth century. Instead, many convent congregations exhibiting elements of traditional and evangelical practices in Protestant regions survived into the seventeenth century and beyond. How did these convents survive? What is a Protestant nun? How many convent congregations came to house nuns with diverse belief systems and devotional practices, and how did they live and worship together? These questions lead to surprising answers. Stripping the Veil explores the daily existence, ritual practices, and individual actions of nuns in surviving convents over time against the backdrop of changing political and confessional circumstances in Protestant regions. It also demonstrates how incremental shifts in practice and belief led to the emergence of a complex, often locally constructed, devotional life. This continued presence of nuns and the survival of convents in Protestant cities and territories of the German-speaking parts of the Holy Roman Empire is evidence of a more complex lived experience of religious reform, devotional practice, and confessional accommodation than traditional histories of early modern Christianity would indicate. The internal differences and the emerging confessional hybridity, blending, and fluidity also serve as a caution about designating a nun or groups of nuns as Lutheran, Catholic, or Reformed or even more broadly as Protestant or Catholic during the sixteenth century.
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Young, Jason. African and African American Religions in the Early Americas. Edited by Paul Harvey and Kathryn Gin Lum. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190221171.013.26.

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This chapter chronicles the relationship between African religious practices on the continent and African American religion in the plantation Americas in the era of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. A new generation of scholars who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s have demonstrated not only that African religious practices exhibit remarkable subtlety and complexity but also that these cultures have played significant roles in the subsequent development of religious practices throughout the world. Christianity, Islam, and traditional African religion comprised a set of broad and varied religious practices that contributed to the development of creative, subtle, and complex belief systems that circulated around the African Diaspora. In addition, this chapter addresses some of the vexed epistemological challenges related to discussing and describing non-Western ritual and religious practices.
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Steger, Manfred B. Political Ideologies in the Age of Globalization. Edited by Michael Freeden and Marc Stears. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199585977.013.0025.

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This chapter reflects on why and how the forces of globalization have altered the conventional political belief systems codified by social power elites since the French Revolution. In order to explain these dramatic transformations, the chapter discusses at some length the crucial relationship between two ‘social imaginaries’—the national and the global—that underpin the articulation of political ideologies. The chapter suggests a new typology of three contemporary ‘globalisms’ based on the disaggregation of new ideational clusters not merely into core concepts, but, perhaps more dynamically, into various sets of central ideological claims that play crucial semantic and political roles. These three globalisms—market globalism, justice globalism, and religious globalism—represent a set of political ideas and beliefs coherent and conceptually thick enough to warrant the status of mature ideologies.
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Watson, Max, and Mark Thomas. Spiritual and ethical aspects of advance care planning. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802136.003.0006.

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This chapter describes linking spirituality and Advanced Care Planning (ACP); fear and ACP; how thinking about death changes people; religious views of ACP; denial and ACP; personal control and ACP; ethical principles and ACP; the spiritual work of ACP, including objective asessment; adaptation and ACP; and ritual, sacrament, and ACP. The discussion holds that dying is not primarily a medical event. The process of thinking about end-of-life issues can significantly impact on an individual’s attitudes, values, and belief systems. Dying patients can challenge the cultural illusion that life is going to last forever. This can be hard for families and professionals to accept and challenges their own fears around mortality. The importance and wisdom of religious rituals and religious symbolism cannot be ignored even in the most secular of contexts as they bring comfort to many. ACP is about life before death and can foster resilience and hope.
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Takyi, Baffour K. Secular Government in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Phil Zuckerman and John R. Shook. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199988457.013.13.

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This chapter looks at religion in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in the context over a contested “secularization” debate in contemporary societies. The chapter contends that a genuine transformation is underway in many parts of SSA following its independence from European colonial rule. However, these postcolonial advances are yet to significantly affect the belief systems of many Africans. On the contrary, in many SSA countries, there is evidence of an increasing growth in religiosity with its concomitant influence in both the private and public sphere. Also, while it cannot be denied that secular institutions are spreading throughout most of Africa, there is little evidence to suggest that salience of religion in the lives of many Africans. Compared to many parts of the world, religion has yet to move into the private sphere in Africa, and people have not become less religious or less vocal in the public domain.
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Natale, Simone, and Diana Pasulka, eds. Believing in Bits. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190949983.001.0001.

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Situated at the theoretical interface between the fields of media studies and religious studies, Believing in Bits advances the idea that religious beliefs and practices are inextricably linked to the functioning of digital media. Digital media—conceived as technologies and artifacts, as well as the systems of knowledge and values shaping our interaction with them—cannot be analyzed outside the system of beliefs and performative rituals that inform and prepare their use. How did we come to associate things such as mind reading and spirit communications with the functioning of digital technologies? Does the dignity accorded to the human and natural worlds within traditional religions translate to gadgets, avatars, or robots? How does the internet’s capacity to facilitate the proliferation of beliefs help blur the boundaries between what is considered fictional and factual? The chapters in this volume address these and similar questions, challenging and redefining established understandings of digital media and culture by employing the notions of belief, religion, and the supernatural. From a theoretical standpoint, this book relies on two different approaches that complement each other: a media archaeological approach that looks at the continuities and at the subtle relationships between earlier media histories and the contemporary landscape, and a perspective informed by digital media studies that takes into account the technical and social specificities of digital technologies.
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Kirk, John TO. Science and Certainty. CSIRO Publishing, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643095311.

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How did the cosmos, and our own special part of it, come to be? How did life emerge and how did we arise within it? What can we say about the essential nature of the physical world? What can be said about the physical basis of consciousness? What can science tell or not tell us about the nature and origin of physical and biological reality? Science and Certainty clears away the many misunderstandings surrounding these questions. The book addresses why certain areas of science cause concern to many people today – in particular, those which seem to have implications for the meaning of human existence, and for our significance on this planet and in the universe as a whole. It also examines the tension that can exist between scientific and religious belief systems. Science and Certainty offers an account of what science does, in fact, ask us to believe about the most fundamental aspects of reality and, therefore, the implications of accepting the scientific world view. The author also includes a historical and philosophical background to a number of environmental issues and argues that it is only through science that we can hope to solve these problems. This book will appeal to popular science readers, those with an interest in the environment and the implications of science for the meaning of human existence, as well as students of environmental studies, philosophy, ethics and theology.
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Inglehart, Ronald F. Religion's Sudden Decline. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197547045.001.0001.

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Secularization has accelerated. From 1981 to 2007, most countries became more religious, but from 2007 to 2020, the overwhelming majority became less religious. For centuries, all major religions encouraged norms that limit women to producing as many children as possible and discourage any sexual behavior not linked with reproduction. These norms were needed when facing high infant mortality and low life expectancy but require suppressing strong drives and are rapidly eroding. These norms are so strongly linked with religion that abandoning them undermines religiosity. Religion became pervasive because it was conducive to survival, encouraged sharing when there was no social security system, and is conducive to mental health and coping with insecure conditions. People need coherent belief systems, but religion is declining. What comes next? The Nordic countries have consistently been at the cutting edge of cultural change. Protestantism left an enduring imprint, but 20th-century welfare added universal health coverage; high levels of state support for education, welfare spending, child care, and pensions; and an ethos of social solidarity. These countries are also characterized by rapidly declining religiosity. Does this portend corruption and nihilism? Apparently not. These countries lead the world on numerous indicators of a well-functioning society, including economic equality, gender equality, low homicide rates, subjective well-being, environmental protection, and democracy. They have become less religious, but their people have high levels of interpersonal trust, tolerance, honesty, social solidarity, and commitment to democratic norms. The decline of religiosity has far-reaching implications. This book explores what comes next.
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