Religion Compass

The Ecumenical Movement in Africa

Lisa Evans — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:07:26 +0000

A free virtual issue from the World Council of Churches journals At the beginning of the modern ecumenical movement and in the years of formation of the WCC, Africa was considered a “mission field” with little ecclesial identity of its own. Africa came onto the “ecumenical map” in the early years of independence of its [...]

Interview: Harvey E. Goldberg

Liam Cooper (Managing Editor) — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:33:06 +0000

We recently caught up with Emeritus Professor Harvey E. Goldberg, who is the Sarah Allen Shaine Chair in Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus. In this interview, Prof Goldberg talks about his research interests and history, and reflects on his recent article for Intertwined Worlds and why it is important to reflect [...]

New Religion Compass Issue – March 2012

Liam Cooper (Managing Editor) — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:41:43 +0000

Volume 6, Issue 3 Pages i – ii, 163 – 212, March 2012 The Decline and Fall of the West? Debates about the Trinity in Contemporary Christian Theology (pages 163–173) Travis E. Ables Intertwined Worlds The Performance of Convivencia: Communities of Tolerance and the Reification of Toleration Manuscript number (pages 174–184) Aomar Boum Political Religion [...]

A Free Virtual Issue on the theme of Secularism

Lisa Evans — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:32:17 +0000

The interface between religion and secularism has in recent years generated both heat and light about the evolution of modern post-industrial, post-colonial societies. Local advocates of secularism have argued that neither Australia nor New Zealand are Christian nations and that secularism without religion forms the underlying ideology of the post-enlightenment state. Other scholars have been [...]

Two thought-provoking new introductions to religion

Liam Cooper (Managing Editor) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:44:01 +0000

The Religion Toolkit A Complete Guide to Religious Studies John Morreall & Tamara Sonn 978-1-4051-8246-1 | November 2011 | Paperback | 376 pages “The Religion Toolkit is a unique one-stop resource. Morreall and Sonn’s toolkit will prove essential for all (students, media, policymakers and the general public) who want to understand religions and their impact [...]

The Experimental Economics of Religion

Lisa Evans — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:57:29 +0000

The Journal of Economic Surveys has recently published a paper entitled The Experimental Economics of Religion, by Robert Hoffmann. This paper surveys the experimental economics approach to the study of religion. The field has a place in the context of the scientific study of religion generally and the social psychology of religion in particular, but [...]

A Scholar Examines Presidents’ and Theologians’ Takes on ‘Ex Corde’

Lisa Evans — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:53:16 +0000

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops announced about a year ago the start of its 10-year review of Ex corde Ecclesiae, a Vatican document that Pope John Paul II released two decades ago to guide Catholic colleges, sparking questions about institutional autonomy and academic freedom. But the review was designed to take place behind [...]

New Religion Compass Issue – October 2011

Liam Cooper (Managing Editor) — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:36:43 +0000

Religion Compass Volume 5, Issue 10 Pages 549 – 637, October 2011 Ancient Near East The Book of Isaiah in Contemporary Research (pages 549–566) Christopher B. Hays Article first published online: 4 OCT 2011 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2011.00308.x Christianity Christianity and Human Trafficking (pages 567–578) Yvonne C. Zimmerman Article first published online: 4 OCT 2011 | [...]

Wabash Center’s Internet Guide to Religion

Liam Cooper (Managing Editor) — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:08:45 +0000

We’ve just discovered a great resource for scholars of religion, put together by the folks at the Wabash Center, who have a long history of supporting higher education teachers working in the field of religion and theology: Internet Guide to Religion The site is a specially selected and annotated list of resources to anyone involved [...]

Religion Compass September 2011 Issue – now available

Liam Cooper (Managing Editor) — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:09:45 +0000

The latest issue of Religion Compass is available on Wiley Online Library Christianity Keswick and the East African Revival: An Historiographical Reappraisal (pages 477–489) Jason Bruner Pentecostal Theology: Retrospect and Prospect (pages 490–500) Christopher A. Stephenson Indian Traditions Jainism: Key Themes (pages 501–510) Jeffery Long Islam Salvation and the ‘Other’ in Islamic Thought: The Contemporary [...]